Canelo Alvarez didn’t get the wide scores most observers felt he deserved tonight, but he did win what was truly a clear decision over Gennadiy Golovkin to retain his undisputed super middleweight championship.
The judges had the fight 115-113, 115-113 and 116-112 for Canelo. Bad Left Hook had the fight 118-110 and 119-109 in his favor.
Canelo (58-2-2, 39 KOs) had the most stable and solid plan of attack in a fight that never got off the ground and certainly didn’t reach the heights of their first two meetings. And while this was a great fight for sure, there was also not the same energy in the building or on the broadcast that we saw in 2017 and 2018.
This was more, as Golovkin (42-2-1, 37 KO) said after the fight, than a chess match, and I think in this case, more than people who think chess is boring would say was a “game of chess”. .”
There wasn’t a lot for highlights, and DAZN is also doing its best not to have any, but we do have some and will have more when DAZN comes up with the proper highlights.
