Some people here actually think Trout beat Canelo

agreed. Anything memorable or of note was landed by Canelo. I've seen people bring up Trout landed More "power" shots. While they may have both been power shots in name, they were not equal in force.

 

Canelo landed the harder cleaner punches. His work rate is why people think the fight was closer, if he would have worked more there wouldn't even be a discussion on this. If you look at compubox numbers it shows trout had a higher work rate plus landed more jabs about even on power shots. It's deceiving, and if it wasn't for Texas boxing (I'm from Texas) who knows how it would have ended up.

 

But Trout did outland Canelo and kept busy. Being busy is important. In the majority of rounds, Canelo would fight for half of it and then move his head for the rest, and consume some jabs. You can't win all the time if you don't hit the other guy with some kind of regularity. I agree that Canelo won, but only by a point or maybe 2. It was a close fight IMO.

 

But it is when the other guy is throwing nothing. Technically, if I throw and land 1 jab, and you land nothing, then I win. That is the position that Canelo often found himself in, and this is how someone like Paulie Malignagi wins all the fights that he does. Canelo's conditioning is simply atrocious, so he has no choice but you have to land with some regularity in pro boxing. Effective output is key. Luckily for Canelo, he wont have to deal with that level of output against Floyd, because that is his achilles heal.

 

There was a point 5/6rd trout got canelo to the body and seemed to stun him, other then that not much form trout. Had it been amateurs trout would have taken the fight, but this is professional boxing. I thought canelo did enough to take the fight, but didn't have it so wide a win for him.

 

And by the second half of the fight, Canelo was outjabbing him.

Trout was game for sure, but I had it 8-4 Alvarez with the KD. Trout wasn't as effective as the commentators would've led one to believe.

 

Close fight. But Canelo's defense does gets underapreciated. And he made Trout miss. Or neutralized a lot of Trout's punches.

 

i feel the same way. i cant believe there are some folks who think trout actually won. the fight too me was very clear canelo won and even gave trout bambi legs that sent him down. its very easy 4 me to say canelo won no doubt about it.

 

I feel sorry for Trout, he started the fight well and I had him up after 4, however when the scorecards where read out after 4 having Canelo up, Trout had no choice but to change his gameplan and become more aggressive & let Canelo go on to the back foot and wait for his opportunities, this just got worse after 8.

 

Trout really lacks power and couldn't land anything meaningful or at least he wasn't willing to take that risk. Both fighters fought scared IMO, but Trout was the one who was more intimidated by the event or Canelo or whatever and it showed. It was a close fight, but Canelo clearly won.

 

:good

 

agreed, Trout did not win that fight, even though it was close