I can't see why people think Trout won. I thought it was relatively close but had it been a draw, it would have been a bad decision, I think. The difference was each fighters accuracy. Canelo outboxed Trout soundly.
I had it Trout 120-108 I struggled to give Canelo a round, He did knock down Trout but Austin dominated the rest of that round.
Canelo was better than he expected, he got knocked down and knew early on that the judges were against him. There was no point in him claiming robbery, it could hurt his potential earnings in the future. Plus he is a very humble man and fighters often don't know how they're doing in a fight. He got told he's losing and he had to switch up his game plan. All those things indicate a 'loss' to him. But boxing rounds are judged on who won rounds, not who landed the harder punch. If Trout lands 5 more jabs in a round and one or two of his arm punch power shots, and Canelo lands two glancing power shots for the whole round then Trout wins the round. Neither guy landed all that much but Trout definitely landed more and won more rounds, I had it 115-112.
Canelo was always in control. When he didn't want to punch, he made Trout miss. When he wanted to punch, he landed clean, hard punches. That's the difference.
No, he didn't. At no time was he able to put any hurt on Canelo. He was the busier fighter, but his punches had no effect. Canelo looked like he might have been swatting away a fly. Totally unfazed. Trout, on the other hand, was rocked several times. As Trout said post fight. "He was the better man tonight."
I saw Canelo falling short and only managing to tag Trout on his chest for most of the fight. Canelo missed just as much as Trout, but Trout threw more and landed more. We're not feeling or measuring the punches so we can't say what is objectively a hard punch or not, a clean scoring punch that isn't a jab is worth the same for either fighter.