I just read that Canelo Alvarez once had a sparring fight with former world champion Javier Jauregui who later died of a brain stroke the day after the session. Many people believe the stroke had to do with the session, which they describe as particularly hard-fought. Could this be the reason Canelo's knockout percentage has gone a bit down the last few years or are weight issues also a main reason?
He never had blistering, knockout power, why is there this myth that he’s some dreadful puncher? He’s a good puncher, but he does not have one punch KO power.
because numbers don’t lie, before his first title victory against Hatton, he was 35 and 0 with one draw, 26 knockouts. That’s about a 72% knockout percentage. Which is now even further down than that. So, even when he was fighting nobodies, he barely cracked the 70% knockout percentage level. He’s never been a massively hard hitter.
Hes moved up in weight and is fighting better opposition for example Golovkin has an iron chin hes never going to stop him, Bivol is a Light Heavyweight with a fantastic defence. I also don't think of Canelo as a KO artist, he punches very accurately/sharply and whilst he does have power hes not a Julian Jackson type puncher.
Consistent knockout ratio if we take into account moving up in weight. Ezzard Charles would be a better example of a killer puncher holding back after a lethal accident.
Because after many boxers deaths or injuries, the other boxer, the one who was in the ring with the dead one, usually sees their knockout power or their ability affected in some way. Nigel Benn for example, wasnt the same after the Gerard McClellan fight. Ray Mancini is another one, he went 4-4 after Duk Koo Kim, Juan Ramon Cruz was a prospect who was 10-1 with 9 knockouts when he fought Isidro Perez (not the world champion, obviously) who died 6 days after their bout, Cruz's career fizzled out after that as he went 6-4, and there have been many other cases like that. Many boxers do suffer tremendous mental hardships after an opponent dies, Ultiminio Sugar Ramos had nightmares with the two boxers who died after fighting him and I think Emile Griffith did too. Ramos too , you could say after the Davey Moore fight-the second boxer who died days after fighting him- he may have lost the taste for fighting. Many of the boxers who have unintentionally hurt a fighter in a ring do worry in their next fights, about hurting the opponent too much again. So some tend to pull their punches, or not be so aggressive, etc. Some boxers have also said that in their next contests after hurting someone bad or tragically, they tend to see the previous opponent's face in front of them, or things like that. But not all....thats why I wondered if maybe that could have affected him.
Thank you, someone with common sense. There’s a difference between having a respectful punch versus one punch power, Clenelo does not have one punch power.
