But this time at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, it was Canelo’s power and movement that decided a one-sided bout to inflict Smith’s first career defeat.
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“It’s very impressive and very handsome. I’m focused on being the best, making history”, Alvarez said, with 35,000 tickets sold and a large walk-up crowd expected.
If this were a football game, Canelo Alvarez’s fight against Liam Smith this Saturday (HBO PPV, 9 p.m. ET) might be called a ‘trap game.’ That is when a team, looking ahead to bigger opponents on the schedule gets caught by a capable underdog.
The app first graced the Apple Store in April in advance of Alvarez’s fight with Amir Khan and then was officially released on Android for the fighter’s latest bout.
Alvarez is one of the best combination punchers in the sport and showed it off with a attractive double right uppercut, counter left body shot that forced Smith to a squatting position with his gloves touching – a necessary break to catch his breath.
‘I believe he will pull it off and it will be the biggest win by a British boxer ever – even bigger than Randy Turpin beating Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951’. “I’m going to win this fight”.
“If he [pursues an early knockout], it’s a massive mistake”, Smith said. We are ready for him and he doesn’t want to accept. “We made the offer now it’s on him, let’s wait for the response”, concluded Alvarez. With Mayweather being retired, Canelo is the face of boxing now.
Alvarez’s promoter, former 10-time world champion Oscar De La Hoya, said he, too, needed to undress entirely for his 1999 welterweight showdown against Felix Trinidad Jr. – a fight De La Hoya lost by disputed majority decision.
“I can’t keep fighting this fight thinking about Golovkin. That’s why we are preparing very well for whatever he presents in the ring and there won’t be any surprises”.
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“My train of thought is not to see what’s down the line”. The fight was seen by many boxing fans as a mismatch going in, and unfortunately that’s what it turned out to be. This is a real fight. That is what I have prepared for and that is what I have worked really hard for. “I am the best at this sport and Viva La Mexico!” Smith may have been the taller fighter, but Canelo’s explosivity and meatier punches did the greater damage, with combinations and frequent uppercuts finding the target.
