Canelo putting some steam on his punches. Maybe his mistake was he threw only hard punches. The fight to go 11 rounds or more is juiced to -225. You could also argue this is No. 1 vs No. 2, though that’s more debatable. The first two bouts generated more than 1 million pay-per-view buys apiece, in addition to more than $50 million in total gate receipts in Las Vegas for both fights combined. Alvarez has been -500 or longer in six of his last eight fights with the only exceptions being the two bouts against Gennady Golovkin. That’s because he watched Floyd Mayweather give Alvarez his only defeat eight years ago. He’s not a huge puncher, with eight of his 19 wins going to the scorecards. 1 WBA Chris Eubank Jr. However, he’s waiting in line to get a title shot against the winner of Gennadiy Golovkin vs. But even so, the already established Hall of Famer - while remaining gracious in defeat - insisted he wants another shot.
Alvarez is big enough to do so, transcending the sport to the point where he is able to call his own shots, who he wants to fight, on what network he wants to fight on, eschewing the entanglements that prevented him from fighting anyone from Top Rank, Premier Boxing Champions or Matchroom. For Canelo, it’s the biggest money fight he’s going to have available if he beats Smith, and by a good bit. Big combination by Bivol lands and Canelo shakes it off like it’s nothing. And it looks like he’ll enjoy every single moment in the ring that he has to execute his game plan. “I still feel like we’ve done a great job, and DAZN has the best schedule in U.S boxing. In a boxing era that has seen countless high-profile matchups go by the wayside because one or both sides refused to make any concessions, Haney hopes to set a new precedent by accepting an astounding level of compromise to make the unification fight with Kambosos happen.
That fight resulted in a loss for Alvarez in the ring, but brought in 16,146 and made $20,003,150 at the gate. Superstar boxers routinely compete just twice a year, and that used to be the case for Alvarez. Boxing has a new superstar! Mexican superstar. They don’t want to return to the money they were making before despite losing to Canelo. Sometimes you lose. Not making excuses. Alvarez chalked up Saunders' talk to being a case of laying groundwork to have excuses for an eventual loss. If Golovkin and Saunders are the options, it’s going to be interesting to see which of them Canelo picks. “But it’s nothing I haven’t seen before. It’s a rural place, real country. Marc Raimondi, Mike Coppinger, Nick Parkinson and Mike Rothstein separate what's real and what is not. “I’ve grown so much,” he told Mike Tyson’s HotBoxin’ in May as he recalled the 2013 bout at Vegas’ MGM Grand.
He just got caught with a big Alvarez left hook that ended the bout. Bivol misses a huge left hook. What does Wilder have left after absorbing two knockout losses to Fury, including a tremendous 11-round beating in the trilogy fight? Just ask Golovkin. Some people (including me) believe Golovkin is 2-0 versus Alvarez, but the record books say 0-1-1. Even the great Floyd Mayweather had to settle for a majority draw win over Alvarez in a fight he completely dominated. Throwing a few bucks on a draw at 18/1 isn’t a bad idea either. ‘In the next few days we will announce the September fight,’ Canelo told ESPN Knockout. Before the fight, Paul told Showtime: “I will fight Canelo 100 per cent. In 2018, then-middleweight champion ‘Canelo’ ventured up to super middleweight for a one-off fight against Rocky Fielding. The American former IBF super-middleweight champion was beaten for the first time and lost his title to Canelo Alvarez last time out. Bivol defeated current WBO champion Joe Smith Jr in 2019 by a unanimous decision.