Boxing 2021: Canelo Alvarez def Billy Joe Saunders result, video, highlights, full card, eye injury, scorecards
Billy Joe Saunders gave Saul “Canelo” Alvarez a true test through 8 rounds on Sunday (AEST), but couldn’t occur out for the ninth just after suffering a suspected fractured orbital bone.
Alvarez extra Saunders’ WBO super middleweight belt to his WBC and WBA titles with an eighth spherical TKO win just after a major correct hand busted up the previous undefeated star in Dallas.
In entrance of much more than 73,000 followers in AT&T Stadium, Saunders’ team built the phone to cease the bout with their fighter’s correct eye shut as Alvarez (fifty six-1-two) secured the 56th win of his illustrious vocation.
Alvarez was up seventy eight-seventy four, seventy seven-75, seventy eight-seventy four on the scorecards at the time of the stoppage.
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“He could not see,” Matchroom Boxing’s Eddie Hearn claimed just after the fight. “I spoke to Mark Tibbs (Saunders’ coach) — he claimed he couldn’t see and he wouldn’t allow him go out.”
It was a correct uppercut that eventually did the damage as Saunders (30-1-) leaned into the energy punch of Alvarez. From that issue on, only a single final result appeared probably.
A tricky shopper, Saunders did not make it uncomplicated for the Mexican 4-divison winner, who inspite of the scorecards appeared a small out of rhythm for elements of the fight.
Saunders grew in assurance in the center rounds, right before Alvarez’s energy arrived to the fore in entrance of the largest US group to ever observe an indoor boxing celebration.
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Alvarez could perception victory in the eighth spherical as he chased the southpaw close to the ring and waved his arms in the air as if to allow the pro-Mexican group know that the close of the fight was close to.
The 31-yr-outdated Saunders argued and received his case to raise the sizing of the ring from twenty ft to 22 ft. But no amount of money of excess place was going to let him to escape Alvarez.
“I knew it. The real truth is I knew it. I assume I broke his cheek, and I knew he wasn’t going to occur out,” Alvarez claimed put up-fight.
“I went into the corner and informed Eddie [Reynoso] he is not coming out.”
Both of those Alvarez and Hearn built apparent that IBF super middleweight titleholder Caleb Plant was the clear following step.
“I am coming person, I am coming my friend,” Alvarez claimed.
Total CARD
Canelo Alvarez def. Billy Joe Saunders — through 8 spherical TKO — WBC, WBA, WBO super middleweight titles
Elwin Soto def. Katsunari Takayama — through ninth spherical TKO — WBO junior flyweight title
Souleymane Cissokho def. Kieron Conway — through split selection (96-93, 95-ninety four, 92-97) — junior middleweight
Frank Sanchez def. Nagy Aguilera — through complex selection (60-54 x three) — heavyweight
Marc Castro def. Irving Macias Castillo — through fourth spherical TKO — junior lightweight
Keyshawn Davis def. Jose Antonio Meza — through unanimous selection (60-54 x three) — lightweight
Kelvin Davis def. Jan Marsalek — through unanimous selection (38-37 x three) — welterweight
Christian Alan Gomez Duran def. Xavier Wilson — through second spherical TKO — welterweight
