By Jeff Powell For The Daily Mail
Published: 00:07 BST, 8 June 2019 | Updated: 00:08 BST, 8 June 2019
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Can lightning strike twice in a week, in balmy weather, indoors, on the exact spot where Britain's world heavyweight champion was struck down by a Mexican thunderbolt seven nights ago?
The odds against it are astronomical. More so because Gennady Golovkin is not Anthony Joshua and Steve Rolls is not Andy Ruiz Jnr.
GGG is one of the greatest middleweights of all time. The same cannot be said of AJ at heavyweight despite all the benefits his charm and endeavour have bestowed upon British boxing.
Gennady Golovkin takes on Steve Rolls at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night
Only a week ago Anthony Joshua surrendered his world titles against Andy Ruiz in New York
Rolls is an engaging Canadian with an unbeaten record, admirable dedication and well-schooled ring-craft.
But he does not carry the dynamite in his fists which Ruiz detonated to the devastating surprise of everyone except his nearest and dearest to become Mexico's first world heavyweight champion.
Nor is Golovkin as deeply involved in the business built upon his phenomenal punching power as Joshua in his knockout corporation.
Kazakhstan's baby-faced assassin - is he really 37? - collects here on Saturday night the first instalment on a $350million six-fight television contract with a new digital streaming channel.
Golovkin and rival Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez are on a collision course to meet for a third time
Golovkin is the heavy favourite to win the catchweight contest at the mecca of boxing
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