Undisputed super-middleweight world champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez has continued his reign after caring for enterprise towards the beforehand unbeaten Jaime Munguia.
In a battle between two Mexican superstars, that coincided with the Cinco de Mayo vacation, it was Alvarez, 33, who proved too sturdy as he scored the unanimous factors resolution victory (117-110, 116-111, 115-112).
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Munguia, 27, utilized the strain within the early going of the struggle and regarded to have Alvarez rattled as he unleashed a bombardment of photographs late within the third spherical.
As he regarded to proceed to the onslaught, Alvarez flipped the script and despatched his rival to the canvas for the primary time in his profession with a murderous left hook, proper uppercut mixture.
The knockdown clearly rattled the challenger because the champ acquired into his groove behind his highly effective photographs in a dominant fifth spherical.
Munguia by no means stopped going after Alvarez, however the undisputed super-middleweight champ both blocked or ate each shot thrown his method.
Whereas a number of Munguia mixtures acquired the group up and out of their seats, the photographs by no means really appeared to rattle Alvarez.
It was the facility of Alvarez that regularly proved the distinction all through the struggle as the group erupted as soon as the ultimate bell rang out.
Alvarez fully dominanted his opponent by touchdown 234 punches in comparison with 170 whereas touchdown 151 energy punches.
“I’m the very best proper now for certain,” Alvarez stated after the victory.
FULL FIGHT CARD RESULTS
Predominant card
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (c) def. Jaime Munguia by way of UD (117-110, 116-111, 115-112) — undisputed tremendous middleweight championship
Mario Barrios (c) def. Fabian Maidana by way of UD (116-111 x3) — WBC interim welterweight championship
Brandon Figueroa (c) def. Jessie Magdaleno by way of ninth-round KO — WBC interim featherweight championship
Eimantas Stanionis (c) def. Gabriel Maestre by way of UD (117-111, 118-110, 119-109) — WBA ‘common’ welterweight championship
Prelims
Jesus Ramos def. Johan Gonzalez by way of ninth-round TKO — tremendous welterweight
Vito Mielnicki Jr. def. Ronald Cruz by way of unanimous resolution (99-89, 98-90, 96-92) — tremendous welterweight
