This might have been Alvarez at his best, putting on a frightening display of offensive boxing.
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Moments later it came, when Alvarez landed a brutal left hook to the body.
The fight salvaged the show after a series of terrible mismatches on the undercard, but it was also a reminder of what could have been.
After the fight a lot of haters were claiming he was ducking Gennady Golovkin, Canelo answered back by telling the naysayers the truth, his team offered a huge payday and triple G refused.
Though he is not in Alvarez’s class, Smith is a skilled fighter who is very good at hurting his opponents with solid body shots and boasts a very good uppercut. A fight like Alvarez vs. Smith would usually figure to be a box office bomb.
A high-profile battle between the world’s most dominant and marketable middleweights has always been sought after by fans, yet the usual boxing politics thus far seems to have prevented that dream from becoming a viable reality.
He added on the possibility of a mega-fight with Golovkin: ‘I fear no one, I am the best fighter right now. I’m living up to what I said, and this is turning out to be an wonderful event.
“You get great fights when matches fit well – I’m a counter-puncher and I very much enjoyed this fight”. We offered GGG twice the money to fight. If I waited a little longer and got more experience I would be able to fight a guy like that better.
“We made the offer and now it’s on him, the ball is in his court. He just didn’t want to accept”.
For all the heat Alvarez has taken for summoning Golovkin into the ring after Alvarez’s May 7 knockout of Amir Khan and strongly indicating they’d fight next, only to relinquish his World Boxing Council belt days later, De La Hoya maintains they were simply sticking to the plan.
Alvarez by a TKO in the middle rounds. The pay-per-view undercard was tiresome, and the B-side had little chance. However, there is an undercard attached to it, so you can expect the main event to start at 11:30 PM to 12 AM EST.
Gallagher is also hoping his man has some success in the early rounds to silence the crowd and put the pressure on the star of the show in Alvarez. The undefeated Kazakh fighter – who actually has never been knocked to the canvas in hundreds of professional bouts – defeated Kell Brook in a bout exactly one week ago.
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Canelo Alvarez earned his sixth straight victory on Saturday night (Sept. 17), when he knocked out Liam Smith to win the WBO middleweight title.
