Cotto, however, was shocked by the decision.
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“Gennady Golovkin is a great fighter, and he is my friend”, Alvarez said.
It was instead an evening to rejoice.
There is no denying the fact that Alvarez was mighty impressed with his fight. As Canelo stakes his claim to becoming boxing’s new pound for pound king, that’s a tough defeat for Canelo. “It’s huge, but it’s much bigger than Golden Boy Promotions”.
“I was crossing my fingers every single minute of every round”.
Im ready for this, me and Canelo, said Golovkin who watched the fight at ringside. His reply to the scoring was “Wow!”
“I’m not saying he’s fighting anyone else, but I’m not announcing anything”, De La Hoya said. “We will have that talk”.
The news agency also posted that “CompuBox connected on 118 of 298 shots to Cotto’s 75 out of 255”.
What rounds did Roach dispute?
“I don’t keep a scorecard in my pocket”, he said.
“We can confirm that the victor must face our interim champion, Golovkin”, the World Boxing Council confirmed yet again last week.
The bout was billed as being the latest in a long rivalry between Mexican and Puerto Rican fighters, but save for action in rounds 4 and 8, the bout was more a technical display of skill than the all-out war a few people expected. But if you want me to fight him right now, Ill fight him right now..
Whilst the fight was for the 160-pound title, it was actually fought at a 155-pound catchweight. Once fighters go past that weight, they tend to get weight drained in dropping all that weight to get down to the 160lb limit. If you think Canelo boxes poorly while backing up, and he comes forward at will because he doesn’t feel his opponent’s punches, game over. “This is my weight class. Golovkin … I’m not afraid of anybody”.
“If they reach an agreement, it’s absolutely without a problem”, Sulaiman said. Cotto worked his jab very well and worked the body of Canelo, although the aging Cotto was behind in the fight and was being out boxed he fought like a warrior. In his first bout seizing the perch as the main attraction of a pay-per-view card, De La Hoya’s prized draw didn’t let him down. “I was fully prepared for what Cotto was going to do in the ring, whether that was take a defence stance or be the aggressor”.
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We don’t know how much the two men weighed on fight night, but we can approximate that Alvarez might have had a 15-pound advantage. After several more clean shots, referee Tony Weeks was forced to stop the fight at one minute and 32 seconds. And that fight, if it happens, will be as big as any we will see in 2016. The Mexican power puncher has quickly become one of the most followed boxers of the current era, and is one of the brightest stars of the boxing world at the moment.
