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Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez Vs Austin Trout

 

Saul Alvarez defended his WBC light-middleweight title and claimed the WBA and ring magazine belts with a unanimous points decision over American Austin Trout in San Antonio. The first round saw both fighters keeping their distance with Trout delivering the first meaningful blow with a jab to Alvarez’s head. However Alvarez won the won round after stringing together several combinations. In the second round Alvarez delivered a series of body blows in which he dominated the action and took the round. Alvarez left trout staggered in the third after a left hook to the body in which the American had to stop and wince. Trout managed to pull himself together and delivered several body blows. The fourth saw trout stunned after Alvarez delivered a left hook to his head. After several rounds of both fighters trading blows the seventh round had the fights first knockdown with Alvarez catching Trout flush to the chin with a powerful straight punch. Trout stumbled a few steps before falling to the canvas. The Mexican continued to deliver telling blows to Trout and had him staggering twice more before the round was out. With Alvarez up through eight rounds he went defensive and saw the fight out comfortably with winning scores of 115-112, 116-111 and 118-109.

Nathan Cleverly vs Robin Krasniqi

Nathan Cleverly defended his WBO light-heavyweight title after a one-sided points victory win over Robin Krasniqi at Wembley Arena with scores of 120-108 (twice) and 119-109. The Welshman started the fight well with long right hands that had his opponent momentarily stunned. The fourth saw more big shots from Cleverly who had Krasniqi rocked from a right uppercut. Round five was dominated by Cleverly although when the pair traded blows the Welshman seemed to be quite easy to hit. Only the bell saved Krasniqi in the tenth as Cleverly began to unload. The final two rounds were uneventful as Cleverly went on to a comfortable win. This was the Welshman’s fourth defence of his title. Cleverly’s target now is to clean up his weight class with a possible fight against WBA champion Beibut Shumenov and then a dream fight against Bernard Hopkins.

Tyson Fury vs Steve Cunningham

Tyson Fury recorded a seventh-round stoppage victory over Steve Cunningham on his American heavyweight debut. However it wasn’t all plain sailing for Fury after he was sent to the canvas in the second round and looked in all sorts of trouble. But the Mancunian regrouped well to eventually wear down his opponent.  Fury’s weight advantage showed as he walked down and overpowered his opponent.  After being knocked down instead of easing his way back in Fury went full out offensive and made his size count. With Fury constantly pressing Cunningham was finding it very hard to keep his opponent at bay and in the seventh Fury found a savage short-range right to the jaw that ended the contest.