The suspicions that Canelo Álvarez’s pay-per-view showdown with Julio César Chávez Jr was a sideshow not worthy of your time, say nothing of the hefty $70 price tag, proved founded early in Saturday’s one-sided beatdown on the Las Vegas Strip. This one was more of an event than a fight: a celebration Authentic Henrik Borgstrom Youth Jersey Green Bay Packers of Cinco de Mayo featuring two of Mexico’s most popular boxers masquerading as authentic sports experience for fans.Álvarez won every minute of every round against an opponent who is his rival in narrative only. Not once during the 12-round mismatch, which took place at a contracted catchweight of 164½lbs, did the popular red-headed puncher from Guadalajara sit on his stool between rounds. One could imagine Canelo suffered sparring sessions in training camp more taxing than Saturday’s light workout before a sold-out crowd at the T-Mobile Arena. When it was over, all three ringside judges turned in identical scores of 120-108, as did the Guardian. A total whitewash and, candidly, a bit of an embarrassment.That only set the stage for the night’s real news. Afterward, Álvarez announced he will face Gennady Golovkin, the charismatic Kazakh knockout artist known as Triple G, in a long-awaited superfight to unify the middleweight championship. Pen was put to paper last week and no venue has been set. But the biggest fight in the sport that can be made today has been signed and it will happen on 16 September at the middleweight limit of 160lbs.“GGG, you are next my friend,” the 26-year-old Álvarez, a former champion at junior middleweight and middleweight and the presumptive face of the sport in boxing’s post-Mayweather age, said through a translator. “The fight is done. I’ve never feared anyone, since I was 16 http://www.officialpanthersonlinestore.com/Henrik_Borgstrom_Jersey fighting as a professional. When I was born, fear was gone. I never got my share of fear. I’m very happy, and the rivalry is going to show my skills even more. I’ve had difficult fights, and that will no doubt be a tough fight. standing mid-range unmolested in what felt like acres of space, got off first time and again. By the end of the third round, a trickle of blood ran from the bigger man’s nose.By the sixth, Canelo was simply walking Chávez down, setting up his punches beautifully, unconcerned with single-shot return fire, landing as many per round as his opponent was throwing. Even when Chávez had openings to uncork, he couldn’t pull the trigger. Thus he appeared content to lay back in an effort to extend the fight, perhaps endowed with the grim self-knowledge that any resistance would http://www.officialhawkstore.com/Dikembe_Mutombo_Jersey only hasten his demise.By the ninth, Chávez’s left eye was nearly fully closed and a feeling of discomfort seemed to prevail among the well-lubricated capacity crowd of 20,516, who had started the night bellowing singalongs in the stands to Mexican standards Tragos Amargos and La Ley Del Monte but had now descended into cascades of boos. For what exactly? Certainly not the surgical work of Álvarez, who gave no quarter in the so-called championship rounds in his effort to close the show. The bloodletting was on and it was hard to understand how anyone could feel particularly good about bearing witness to the punishment, which truly should have been stopped by referee Kenny Bayless or any sane party. For years Chávez’s commitment has been called into question, and correctly, but no one can doubt his chin: even from a smaller man these were devastatingly hard shots.The 31-year-old Chávez, who earned a guaranteed $3m for his trouble (compared to $5m for Álvarez), managed to finish the bout upright but nothing else. Few at ringside could remember the last time a fight put forth as a top-flight contest had ended with all three ringside judges failing to find even one round to give the loser.“Tonight I showed I could move, I could box, I showed as a fighter I can do all things,” said Álvarez, who Dennis Schroder Womens Jersey landed 228 of 604 punches (37.7%), compared to 71 of 302 for Chávez (23.5%). “I thought I was going to showcase myself as a fighter that could throw punches, but he just wouldn’t do it. I’ve shown I can do lots of things in the ring, anything a fighter brings. I’ve shown I can showcase myself.“I wanted to try something new. I never sit down in sparring and I didn’t want to sit here.”Canelo Álvarez derrota por decisión unánime a Julio César Chávez Jr – como pasó Round-by-round: Canelo Álvarez derrota por decisión unánime a Julio César Chávez Jr Said Chavez, also through a translator: “I wanted to box but he went to the ropes and I just needed to throw more punches. I would’ve attacked more I would’ve been countered by his punches. [Trainer Nacho Beristain] told me to do that but the strategy didn’t work.”Now the eyes of the boxing world turn to the hotly anticipated meeting between Canelo and Golovkin, who watched from ringside on Saturday night.The fight is signed, sealed and delivered,” said Oscar De La Hoya, who promotes Álvarez. “I’ve already had several calls from people interested in staging this fight.
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