“It is hard to say how it is going to go, but Liam is coming to fight and Canelo is coming to fight as well”.
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“I expect and I hope that it will be the same [as the Khan fight], an explosive fight”. “That’s something no other fighter has ever done”.
“I appreciate what he does for me”. It would have to take the opening bell of round one for us to come to the realization.
Canelo is dropping down to light-middleweight after he made a decision to give-up the WBC middleweight belt that he won off Khan, rather than fight Gennady “GGG” Golovkin.
But Alvarez, 26, was the star of the show and he lived up to his billing, improving to 48-1-1 with 34 knockouts.
“I always knew who he is, what he was”.
Smith accepted he had been outclassed by Alvarez on the night, suggesting he took the fight too early in his career. Who has he knocked out?
Although the match-up is hardly competitive, Ali is on the comeback trail after losing his first world title bid via stoppage to Jessie Vargas, who will now get to cash in by fighting Manny Pacquiao.
“I haven’t talked to him about the fight because what he can do well, I can do well, and what Amir failed to do in the ring, I will not fail to do.”
Alvarez knocked Smith down three times in a devastating display of superiority and claimed victory in the ninth round when Smith could not rise from the canvas after a brutal body shot. But the fight against Golovkin didn’t happen because of negotiations. We will see what follows. Canelo further stated that they offered Golovkin a fight, but GGG turned them down.
Golden Boy Promotions chose the flawless time to book it.
The HBO pay-per-view main event on Mexican Independence Day weekend was Alvarez’s first fight at junior middleweight since he was outclassed by Floyd Mayweather in 2013 at a 152-pound catch-weight.
Smith: “This is the fight that if I could pick a style of a fighter, it would be similar to Canelo’s style”. “This is the best fight possible at 154 because that’s whatCanelo’s body is asking him to fight at”.
While the November 19 Sergei Kovalev-Andre Ward pay-per-view promises fireworks, few fights could match the potential fireworks an Alvarez-Golovkin fight could produce.
“If you need someone with the right temperament, I’ve got that. Let’s go. Will for will, ‘” Diaz said.
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He also sent a strong message to any future middleweight opponents such as Gennady Golovkin. It was apparent by this stage of the fight that Canelo’s body shots were catching up with Smith however.
