By Victor Salazar

New York - After suffering the first loss of his professional boxing career, Gennadiy “GGG” Golovkin (38-1-1, 34 KO’s) decided that a change was in order.

After losing what some pundits still feel is a controversial decision to Canelo Alvarez (52-1-2, 35 KO’s), Golovkin switched trainers.

Going out was longtime trainer Abel Sanchez, and coming in was new trainer Johnathan Banks. Banks, a former cruiserweight and heavyweight contender, is best known for replacing the late Emanuel Steward as the head trainer of Wladimir Klitschko.

Golovkin, who is already a decorated amateur and former unified middleweight champion, returns tonight at Madison Square Garden when he faces Steve Rolls (19-0, 10 KO’s) in his first fight with his new trainer on the streaming platform DAZN.

Banks knows the goal and that’s to get back GGG’s titles.

”I’m not trying to change anything,” Banks told BoxingScene.com “The goal is to get back to a title. The way I teach was taught by the late great Emanuel Steward which is movement timing and rhythm and that’s to get him back to that.”

Banks thinks they key is to be loose and is not taking the underdog Rolls lightly.

“It’s important for Gennadiy to be elusive,” stated Banks. “We talk about that all the time. This is going to be one of the hardest fights he’s going to fight because this guy has nothing to lose. When you face a guy with nothing to lose, that one of the most dangerous opponents you can find.”

For Banks this task is business as usual and does not see this as an opportunity for those that thought he didn’t do a good job with Klitschko in his two losses to Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury.

“When people told me about the split between him and his former trainer, I knew nothing about it,” Banks said of the split between Golovkin and Sanchez.

“I’m not steadily looking a social media. If you don’t hear things, how can you be vindicated? I feel like this is something for me to do. I was called to do a task. Can I do it? Yes. Will I do it?  Yes. I don’t ask for the credit because if someone asks me how I did it I'll say I learned it, I’ll say I learned from the great Emanuel Steward.”