Sergey Kovalev v Saul Canelo Alvarez 2/11/19 Sky Sports/DAZN

[Alpha]

3-3.

[Fatboxingfan]

Now youth will start to get the edge

[powerpuncher]

5-2 Kovalev. Canelo just isn’t doing enough. His punches aren’t having a ton of effect and Kovalev is dictating the pace

[Alpha]

Alvarez 4-3.

[Alpha]

4-4.

[Spicoli]

6-3 Kov. He's actually outhustling Canelo and nullified the body work. Bit surprised at this point if I'm honest. Kov on his boxing game

[Spicoli]

7-3 Kov

[Spicoli]

7-3 Kov well so much for that

[palmerq]

Good job by Alvarez kod a bigger guy and the old git kovalev showed up too. Didn't think it was too close on the cards, kovalev punched a lot glove and Alvarez landed the better stuff for the majority of the rounds.. Nervous jabs from kovalev into Alvarezs gloves don't win rounds or fights.

Alvarez still not one of the bfest though, he just can't trap guys well, he had many chances and he let's em get away, if he could move a step to the left or right more often he'd be immense but he can't so he isn't :S.

[TIC]

fighter of the year

[powerpuncher]

Just announced that the scores before the stoppage were 95-95 and 96-94 on two for Canelo. It’s unfortunate that we can’t just let Canelo win without controversy. I could maybe see it at best a draw, but Canelo was not winning.

These announcers were the worst. Maybe they should just call the fight.

[powerpuncher]

I don’t want to take anything away from Canelo, but Kovalev is damaged goods. He is done. Getting knocked out like that shows that his chin is completely gone. He really didn’t get hit much that fight or didn’t get hit by that many big shots

[palmerq]

How do you not have Alvarez winning that on the cards, he was clearly landing the better stuff and more often and kovalev was just jabbing into his gloves. Alvarez landed some really good body punches guarded well and kovalev apart from a few rounds was marching to his beat... I mean sure if you want to score it for whoever throws more(like my mate Fatboxingfan would, great poster btw) then give kovalev every round but jimeny Christmas Alvarez landed the better stuff nearly all fight.

[Gandalf]

Just announced that the scores before the stoppage were 95-95 and 96-94 on two for Canelo. It’s unfortunate that we can’t just let Canelo win without controversy. I could maybe see it at best a draw, but Canelo was not winning.

These announcers were the worst. Maybe they should just call the fight.

Ouch I suspected as much with the card they kept showing. I was all 'Kovalev is 5-1 up here, what am I missing?' I quickly went online and most were similar. The cards were BS as was the commentary. Where do they get these people from?

[p4pking]

I thought it was basically even before the KO, but also a pretty underwhelming fight. Canelo was clearly so much stronger and fresher, Kovalev was doing a good job controlling distance but didn't have any real intention to do more than that in order to avoid taking punches. He can't really take any punishment now and he fought like a guy that knew it the whole way. A rematch would be completely pointless, Kovalev wouldn't want it anyways. I highly doubt Canelo stays at 175, suspect he and his camp thought this would be an easier task than it was. There are a few good opponents for him at 168 also.