Canelo Alvarez cruised to a one-sided resolution over Jermell Charlo to stay the undisputed tremendous middleweight champion Saturday night time at T-Cell Area in Las Vegas.
Alvarez ruled the motion from begin to end, together with in Spherical 7, when he floored Charlo with an overhand proper hand adopted through a grazing proper uppercut.
The judges scored it 119-108, 118-109 and 118-109 for Alvarez, who was the primary male boxer with 3 defenses of an undisputed identify within the four-belt moment.
“This Canelo — nobody can beat this Canelo,” Alvarez stated in his postfight interview on Showtime. “I love boxing so f—ing much. Boxing is my life.”
Saturday’s battle marked the primary between two male undisputed champions within the four-belt moment. Charlo is the undisputed teenager middleweight champion.
Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs), ESPN’s Refuse. 4 pound-for-pound boxer, defeated John Ryder through unanimous resolution in his earlier battle in Might. He started his undisputed reign of the 168-pound category when he added Caleb Plant’s IBF identify to his WBC, IBF and WBO belts in November 2021.
Charlo (35-2-1, 19 KOs) used to be making an attempt to fix Claressa Shields and Terence Crawford as the one boxers (male or feminine) with undisputed titles in two or extra weight categories within the four-belt moment. He moved up 14 kilos to stand Alvarez and fought above 154 kilos for the primary hour.
“I feel like it wasn’t me in there,” Charlo stated. “I don’t make excuses. You win some, you lose some. I’m undisputed in my weight. I was daring to be great. I’m proud of myself.”
