Canelo Alvarez unanimously outpointed previously undefeated Callum Smith to win the WBA & Ring super-middleweight championships and vacant WBC super-middleweight title Saturday night at the Alamodome.<\/p>\n
Alvarez (54-1-2, 36 KOs) dominated his only bout this year, repeatedly hitting Smith (27-1, 19 KOs) with straight rights and right hooks to the head over 12 rounds.<\/p>\n
Two judges scored the bout 119-109 and the third had it 117-111.<\/p>\n
At 5-foot-8, Alvarez was the aggressor against the 6-foot-3 Smith.<\/p>\n
Alvarez previously knocked out Callum's older brother, Liam, on Sept. 17, 2106, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Many speculated Callum wanted revenge for the ninth-round knockout, but Alvarez dominated the younger Smith as well.<\/p>\n
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Alvarez and Smith were fighting for the first time this year due to the restrictions brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic and the ring rust was evident in the first five rounds. It took nearly a minute before the first punch of the bout was thrown, a lunging right by Alvarez. Punches were sparse and the exchanges were brief in the opening round as both fighters shadowed each other.<\/p>\n
Alvarez pressed the action in the opening seconds of the second round, forcing Smith to respond with rights to the head to keep Alvarez from continually stepping forward.<\/p>\n
Smith jabbed with his left hand more in the third round, occasionally attempting a right uppercut that continually failed to land.<\/p>\n
Alvarez landed a series of straight rights and right hooks to the head early in the fourth round that seemed to faze Smith. Alvarez had his most effective combination, landing a left hook to the side of the head, a straight right to the nose and another left hook that delighted the heavily partisan crowd.<\/p>\n
Alvarez continued to effectively lunge and dig a right hand to the face between Smith's gloves in the fifth round. Smith followed up a lunging blow to the stomach to set up a right hook that seemed to shake Alvarez. Smith landed a second right hook following that exchange.<\/p>\n
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After a rather uneventful sixth round, Alvarez landed a hard right uppercut that snapped Smith's head back. Alvarez attempted to follow with another uppercut, but Smith sidestepped the attempt and missed an uppercut of his own.<\/p>\n
Alvarez landed 60% of his power punches through seven rounds compared to just 20% by Smith.<\/p>\n
Alvarez stuffed another hard right uppercut into Smith with about a minute left in the eighth round.<\/p>\n
Smith fell back against the ropes following a heavy right hook to the head with about 1 1\/2 minutes left in the ninth round.<\/p>\n
Alvarez continued to pound Smith to the head in the final rounds, turning Smith's face bright red from the repeated blows.<\/p>\n
Cameras after the fight caught Smith's left arm looking fairly misshapen as headed to his locker room.<\/p>\n
Following the victory, Alvarez said he would welcome a third bout against Gennady Golovkin. The two boxers fought to a draw in their initial encounter and Alvarez won the second bout.<\/p>\n Marc Castro won his pro debut on the undercard, securing a third-round knockout against Luis Javier Valdes (7-6-1) with a flurry of punches to the head and body. Castro, who won consecutive youth and junior world championships as an amateur, had two previously scheduled bouts cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n Also on the undercard, Frank Sanchez 17-0 (13 KO') retained his WBO-NABO heavyweight title by knocking out Julian Fernandez (14-3) in the seventh round with a pair of stiff straight right hands to the head. Sanchez tumbled out of the ring between the bottom two ropes, suffering his second straight knockout loss following three straight wins.<\/p>\n Canelo Alvarez unanimously outpointed previously undefeated Callum Smith to win the WBA & Ring super-middleweight championships and vacant WBC super-middleweight title Saturday night at the […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11784,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11782\/revisions\/11784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanRafael1\/status\/1340533302508314625<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/EddieHearn\/status\/1340532736415678464<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndreasHale\/status\/1340538740880494592<\/a><\/p>\n
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