He quite clearly won just about every round after being knocked down. Damn, Trout is a gentleman warrior. Dude is whats so great about our sport and would give anyone hell.
Sure Canelo landed some of the more telling blows, but Trout was in control most of the rounds and did good work against both body and head on Canelo, to which he responded mostly by just flailing around showboating (obviously from exhaustion). It wasnt an easy fight for either man, but surely Trout at the very least made it close? Did he lose most of the early rounds big?
Or maybe he's just a great guy and knew he had took some big shots and suffered his first KD, and knew that most guys feel they've won a fight and instead of rambling on about being robbed like 99.9999% of all fighters out there humbly accepted defeat? I wish there were more people like Trout in our sport, but surely this fight was close at the very least.:-( 118-109? What on earth?
He was clowning around man, that's what you do against lesser opposition no? He felt he was faster, Trout did not look dangerous at any point so why not stay in a slick defense and come back with clear shots...
Honestly, I think he might have won a few of them. It was a very close fight. Canelo just looked like the winner to me at the end.
Perhaps he was, but if it was against such a lesser man he'd have been able to do something off of that clowning? Instead he merely gave away rounds?
Canelo was not clowing around - he was gasping for air. Despite being fatigued (so was Trout but not as much) Trout still couldn't land anything really meaningful while Canelo would evade, evade them knock him back with a sound uppercut, body shot, or straight.
Same goes for Trout, even though he took some bombs he didn't look marked up either. Credit to both guys.