Judges' cards: 48-47 49-46 for Canelo, 48-47 Khan

Good fight. Canelo has some work to do though, he's starting to get a rep as a slow starter and he shouldn't handicap himself in his fights by giving away the first couple rounds. He needs to step up his volume of punches.

Khan looked good, I had him up 3-2 going into that 6th round but he was starting to slow down a bit, his shots were missing with more regularity and Canelo's shots were coming in a lot more accurately. I didn't expect a one punch knockout of that magnitude, but I figured Canelo's elite timing and counterpunching was eventually going to shift the fight to his favor.

Khan's a good fighter, but against anyone he's going to get clipped several times in a fight. That's just the way it is with him. He lacks the discipline to fight at range for a full 12 rounds and not stay in the pocket for too long. He's been able to get away with it for about 4 years because he's been matched up against light punching opposition ever since losing to Garcia. But last night was his first match with a guy that has legitimate power in almost a half decade and it reminded me on his limitations.

I'd still favor him to beat guys like Brook and Broner. I have my doubts he'd be able to beat guys like Thurman, Spence or Porter though. He also needs to steer clear of anything above 147 pounds.

 

How about we turn this thing around - none of the PROFESSIONAL judges had what you call a 'fair' score, maybe you need to stop deluding yourself that a guy who couldn't break a twig and didn't outthrow, outland or outscore his opponent would take the W here.

 

I had Khan up but not surprised at the scores. I don't agree with them but not surprised. 4-1 or 3-2 Khan would have been my card.

 

You have to KO FixNelo to win the fight.

 

Khan was scared after the second and was throwing almost nothing

Good scorecards

 

It was 4-1 Khan

 

Khan was up 4-1 and it was not a difficult fight to judge. I think a lot of people have a problem with scoring punches that don't actually land. You only score punches that land with the knuckle part of the glove in the scoring area. Just because you see some one throw something dosen't necessarily mean it has landed. Alvarez was exposed with his wild swings and lead left hooks that did not land.

 

The crowd were pretty quiet as well. Canelo wasn't landing in the first 4