I think this is the toughest fight by a distance for alvarez below the light heavyweight division, I'd rate beterbiev and bivol tougher fights but apart from that whoever wins this is the undisputed supermiddleweight king. Alvarez is looking great right now but he's struggled with movers before and BJ's certainly made Lemieux look like a fool, but of course totally different class here, I still don't think alvarez is that good at trapping people and still just follows them around a bit. I think tall Smith really helped him look even better last time out. I suspect alvarezs guys know all this so the ring will be small and increase his chances of winning.

Im predicting the scorecards will favour alvarez and many will claim he lost the fight and the truth will be somewhere in between.

Also alvarez has done pretty good since leaving Golden boy with the opponents he takes on(still early days of course) and of course not counting the baffling mandatory(I'll blame the wbc for that one). Maybe Oscar was holding him back this whole time.