LOS ANGELES: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez reaffirmed his super middleweight supremacy on Saturday with a devastating unanimous-decision victory over Jermell Charlo to retain his undisputed world title.
In a battle of undisputed champions, Mexico’s Alvarez knocked down Charlo in the seventh round as he defended his WBO, WBC, WBA and IBF belts, becoming the first to defend all four for a third straight time.Judges Max DeLuca and David Sutherland scored it 118-109 and Steve Weisfeld saw it 119-108 for Alvarez, who was the aggressor from the start.
Alvarez said he’d planned to attack Charlo’s body, and he went after it early, digging in from the right and left.“We worked for that, we worked to work in the body,” Alvarez said. “We know he’s a great fighter. He knows how to move in the ring and we worked that in the gym for three months. Alvarez, now looking toward a title defence next May to coincide with the Mexican Cinco de Mayo holiday, said it didn’t matter that he didn’t get a knockout.
Charlo, who had a height and reach advantage despite stepping up in weight, and weighed in at the same 167.4 pounds as Alvarez, barely threw a punch in the opening round, and his efforts to get Alvarez off balance proved fruitless. Galvanized, perhaps, by the knockdown, Charlo began to let his hands go in the later rounds. He had a strong ninth, but could do no sustained damage and Alvarez continued to land the more telling blows.
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