The Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez won this Saturday by a unanimous British vote John Ryder and kept their titles very middleweighton his return to the ring after wrist surgery.
Álvarez won with scores of 120-107, 118-109 and 118-109 in a one-sided fight. In Guadalajara, the city of his birth, “Canelo” owned the fight from start to finish, although he fell short of his goal of achieving the 40th knockout of his professional career.
After a first round of several shots, the man from Guadalajara began to take advantage of good combinations from the midfield against an opponent with little initiative. In the third round Ryder started bleeding profusely. and in the fourth he suffered the straight blows, the blows and the blows in the belly of the king.
Álvarez was discovered in the fourth, with ‘swing’ and combinations in the anatomy of Ryder, who was left vulnerable and was punished by a straight left that caused a protection account. The Mexican insisted on knocking down his rival, who escaped.
The battle came halfway through an imbalance of forces; for every two punches the champion lands, the challenger gets one hit. blood red, Ryder persevered, punishing “Canelo” in the sixth but receiving an answer from the Mexican, which increases his advantage on the judges’ card.
Cautious on defense, with his guard closed, Saúl waited for the moment to take down the Briton, with stamina and big heart, despite the blood spilling on the champion’s face and also on the canvas. The eighth round ended with a knockdown of the title contenderdue to stumbling after “Canelo’s” offensive, which convinced his return to the ring.
After dominating the first two minutes of the ninth round, Álvarez rocks Ryder twice with a pair of right hands; The Briton persevered and showed pride with a pair of left-footed shots, though finished.
“You can knock them out,” his trainer Eddy Reynoso told the Mexican, who had two rounds to go. In the eleventh “Canelo” was superior again, but could not knock down the opponent Ryder who remained on his feet at the end of the twelfth.
“Canelo” reached 59 wins, 39 by knockout, with two losses and two draws and Ryder suffered his sixth setback with 32 wins, 18 via the fast track.
“It’s a responsibility to fight in front of my people that is very special to me; with discipline, I was able to deliver a good night; Ryder is a great fighter,” said the champion.
Source: La Verdad
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