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Things did not go Billy Joe Saunders way during his fight with Saul Canelo Alvarez on Saturday night.
The referee stopped the bout after the eighth round because Saunders couldn t open his left eye because of the punishment it took.
On the DAZN broadcast of the fight (h/t ESPN s Marc Raimondi), Superb was taken to a local hospital in Arlington, Texas, to have his eye looked at.
Promoter Eddie Hearn told
TalkBox) that Saunders busted his eye socket.
The decisive blow was an uppercut to the eye delivered by Canelo late in the eighth round:
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Canelo Alvarez didn t think much of Billy Joe Saunders after an eighth-round TKO victory Saturday night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. It was not as difficult as I expected, Alvarez said of the fight, per Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports.
The 30-year-old caused significant damage to his opponent s eye during the fight, leading to a technical knockout before the start of the ninth round:
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CANELO KNEW IT WAS OVER VS. SAUNDERS Started taunting in the middle of the 8th round#CaneloSaunders (via @daznboxing)pic.twitter.com/UDKWWGkv5X
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