Sergey Alexandrovich Kovalev vs. Saúl Álvarez Barragán & Ryan García vs. Romero Caingcoy Duno RBR

It was a single punch like the others he'd shipped all night. Wasn't anything spectacular about it. It didn't come at the end of a series or accumulation of punches. He wasn't hurt before or looking gassed. Just bang and down. Not saying that can't happen, just that it doesn't happen often and looked weird.

 

OK, OK, lets give a few of the obviously hurt posters a few years to get over this one.

 

I get the logic they have here. Canelo blocked most of the shots. Kovalev wasn't throwing big, hard, painful shots. And Canelo was the aggressor coming forward. I'm a guy here who loves to score rounds to the come forward aggressor. But when you just follow the guy around the ring and literally just do that (not much of an exaggeration) then how can you win the rounds?

 

Round 4 was one of Canelo's strongest rounds imho. I had him winning that clearly, the first clear round for him I thought, as you could argue Kovalev won the first 3.

 

This guy has over 50,000 posts on a boxing forum, but shows little passion or sincerity about the sport of boxing. How the **** is that possible?

 

Same mate. At the moment and particularly in light of the second preference to UFC, the whole sport just feels like a business on a massive twilight cash-grab.

 

Canelo folded a fading champ with weakening pinch resistance that just had a tough fight 3 months ago. Credit to Canelo for getting the job done. But I believe if they fought in January Kov would have gone the full 12

 

IB, the guy simply didn't do enough to win rounds. And I tend to favor the come-forward fighter.

But if you're just coming forward, catching volume on your gloves, reaching on most of your shots and landing nothing of note, I can't give you the round.

That was pretty much what happened for the first 8 rounds of the fight. We've all seen pot-shotters who steal rounds. Canelo just wasn't there tonight. He wasn't. Just didn't do enough to snag rounds, and was frequently missing wildly.

That's what I'll give Kovalev -- people may not have liked his gameplan, but it was clear and he was executing it well until Round 11. He did exactly what he wanted to do. That's probably why he wasn't too mad at the end of the fight. Anyone can get caught. But the guy fought the fight he and his trainer wanted to fight.

 

There’s still good fights being made

 

did someone call my name?

 

Right on dude! He nearly finished SK off that round! But Saul Barragan de la Guadalajara de Alvarez Canelo, being the gentleman and scholar he is, decided to give the fans some more action! He could have won at any time!!! But he gave a show!!!!!!!!! I had him 10-0 ahead going into the 11th. How bout you?

 

It reminds me of when Gil Clancy got a hold of George Foreman, limited but powerful young George Foreman. He'd gassed against Ali so Clancy tried to completely change Foreman's style and improve his stamina. But when he fights Jimmy Young, he loses to a guy he would have blown out in two rounds previously.

 

I agree, Canelo was being ultra patient early on. He definetly lost the 1st round, rounds 2 and 3 were closer then Canelo finally started mounting a sustained attack in the 4th. Then the 5th Canelo did practically nothing again, but landed that great left hook. Then round 6 and 7 Canelo picked up the sustained attack again.

 

Didn't you predict Canelo would "look good early"? Yeah that didn't happen, shows what you know lol. He looked great late though.

 

Yes seriously, you imbecilic pathetic moron.

Kovalev was drained?. Last I checked the Light Heavyweight limit is 175 and Kovalev weighed in at 175. Fielding is a Super Middleweight. Daniel Jacobs is also a Middleweight and weighed in at the Middleweight limit of 160. Is Chavez even a relevant fight?, it was nothing but a tune-up quality affair where Chavez got to celebrate a free payday.