Alvarez Adds Another Title With 8th-Round TKO of Saunders
ARLINGTON, Texas Canelo Alvarez jumped into his trainer’s arms while Billy Joe Saunders slumped in his corner with a towel draped over his head.
The wildly popular Mexican fighter added another super middleweight title belt in front of a huge crowd in another fight in Texas. Not only did Saunders have his first loss as a pro, the English fighter might have a broken eye socket.
Alvarez set up another victory in his latest Cinco de Mayo bout with a staggering right hand in the middle of the eighth round, sending 73,126 already-screaming fans at the home of the Dallas Cowboys into a frenzy as we waved his arms to encourage the noise while the round continued.
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CANELO VS. SAUNDERS START TIME Date: Saturday, May 8 Main event: 11 p.m. ET/4 a.m. BST
The Canelo vs. Saunders main card launches at 8 p.m. ET/1 a.m. BST, with the headliners expected to make their ring walks at approximately 11 p.m. ET/4 a.m. BST for their highly-anticipated super middleweight championship unification bout.
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DAZN is the global live streamer of Canelo vs. Saunders, including the U.S. and UK. DAZN isn’t showing the fight in Alvarez’s native Mexico, however.
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Alvarez, a former unified Middleweight champion who has dabbled in higher weight classes, officially started a full-time tenure at 158 pounds with his title-winning domination of Callum Smith in Dec. 2020 (watch highlights). Having dispatched WBC mandatory challenger Avni Yildirim (watch highlights), he now turns his attention to fellow Middleweight emigrant Saunders, who’s defended his title with wins over Marcelo Coceres and Martin Murray.
Earlier in the evening, Elwin “La Pulga” Soto puts his WBO Light Flyweight title on the line against Japanese standout Katsunari Takayama, Super Welterweight Kieron Conway looks to halt the rise of Olympic bronze medalist Souleymane Cissokho, and Cuban Heavyweight prospect Frank Sanchez takes on veteran Nagy Aguilera.
Division: Heavyweight
Ryan’s Scorecard: 60-54 for Sanchez
Result: Sanchez def. Aguilera (60-54, 60-54, 60-54)
Fight night is underway and things are off to a bumpy start. Through six rounds, it appeared that heavyweight contender Frank Sanchez was cruising to a victory. While he left a lot to be desired with his execution and desire to go to the body, it appeared that he was winning every round. Then, Sanchez landed a blow to the head that seemingly went around Nagy Aguilera’s guard and off his shoulder. Aguilera backpedaled for a moment before going down. He claimed that he was hit hard in the back of the head. Commentators and fans seemingly disagreed with him. From there, the referee sent things to the scorecards where Sanchez earned a unanimous decision win.
Soto (19-1, 13 KO) simply cannot have an easy title fight, it seems, and the 24-year-old Mexican warrior is proving to be consistently great television the last couple of years. None of the controversy here has anything to do with Soto, but everything to do with a Texas referee whose career has been a lightning rod for criticism, none other than Laurence Cole.
Cole stepped in at 2:44 of the ninth round to stop the fight, which basically nobody agreed with on TV or in our live discussion. Our unofficial scores at the time of the stoppage were 78-74 Soto (Wil Esco) and 77-75 Takayama (myself, and I’m noting our differences here so you don’t yell at anyone but me for what was very enthusiastically a questionable bit of scoring).