The two would rematch almost exactly one year later, again in T-Mobile Arena, but this time Canelo would eke out a majority decision. Many ringside media would actually favor Golovkin in their unofficial scorecards. Dave Moretti would see in favor of Golovkin 115-113, and Don Trella would score the bout a draw, 114-114. Many say Canelo got a gift wrapped up with a bow, when Adalaide Byrd, a judge from Nevada notorious for oftentimes wildly off scorecards, scored the bout 118-110, a near shut-out for Canelo. Touting at the time an unblemished record of 37-0, Golovkin put the pressure to Alvarez unlike anyone else have, with Alvarez showing signs of fatigue around round four, while GGG refused to let up. On September 16, 2017, in the recently-opened T-Mobile Arena just a smidge off the Las Vegas Strip, Canelo would go toe-to-toe with The Baddest Good Boy in Boxing, Gennady "GGG" Golovkin. After following wins over Miguel Cotto, Amir Khan, and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., his career would run into a Kazakh hiccup. could hand Alvarez his first professional loss. Only the unstoppable force that was Floyd Mayweather Jr. Alvarez would dominate, winning every round on the judges’ scorecards up to the ninth round stoppage.Ĭanelo’s star would skyrocket quickly, taking down notable names like Kermit Cintron, Alphonso Gomez, Shane Mosely, and Austin Trout. The boxing world would really meet Canelo for the first time when he would take on Jose Cotto (31-1-1, 23 KO), older brother of the at-the-time red-hot Puerto Rican super welterweight Miguel Cotto. Age didn’t hold the wonder-child back: in his first 13 fights, which all took place in the span of roughly 19 months, he accumulated 11 knockouts. He would turn pro as a super lightweight shortly thereafter, allegedly due to the fact that his trainers at the time, Chepo and Eddy Reynoso, couldn’t find suitable junior opponents for Canelo. He quickly revealed himself to be a prodigy, becoming the Junior Mexican National Boxing Champion in 2005 at just 15. Still had a good career but could of been way better if he was dedicated and didn’t balloon up between camps or if he didn’t get stabbed, skip weight classes and got matched correctly at the right times.Alvarez began boxing at either 11 or 13, depending on the source, when his older brother Rigoberto turned professional. Oh and there’s the fact he almost had his leg chopped off in Spain just after becoming world champ that really hurt his career too and helped waste it. he was only ever in 3 big fights, could of been more and could of won them so its kinda of a wasted talent. which is sad because of how talented he was. He should of got down to 154 after the GGG fight and campaigned their instead or never took the GGG fight and stayed at welterweight than eventually move up to 154 naturally imo that really hurt his career, even tho he got the mega fights out of it (Spence in his home football stadium, and GGG) he could of done it differently and had a chance of beating Spence if he did the weight correctly and who knows maybe even could of got a decision with GGG if he went to middleweight gradually and built himself up because let’s be honest he was having a lot of success with GGG and was up on the scorecards before his eye went, outside of Porter he doesn’t really have a elite win. he was mismanaged and went up 2 weights to fight one of the most feared and heavy hitting middleweights in history got his eyes socket broke then went straight back down to Welterweight to face probably the most feared welterweight outside of the champions Olympic gold medalist Spence and got his other eye socket broken, boxers just don’t do that skipping weights like it’s fun it’s so dangerous and dumb…
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