Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez v Dmitry Bivol - 7th May 2022

[Master]

Interesting 5th round Canelo started fast and very aggressive. Bivol fires back and has Canelo on the ropes. Canelo calls him forward but Bivol stays back and refuses to engage. Bivol wants to stick to his boxing. These are close rounds but give Canelo round 5.

4-1 Bivol.

[Master]

Bivol circling Canelo and knocking his head back. Canelo looks slow and frustrated and Bivol busier than Saul in round 6.

5-1 Bivol

[TitoFan]

CBS Sports has it 6-0.
DAZN of course has it 4-2.

[TitoFan]

The guy from CBS Sports (7-0) and the one from DAZN (4-3) seeing two different fights.

[TitoFan]

8-0 CBS.... 4-4 DAZN

Smells like another robbery in the making.

[Master]

Bivol is controlling the centre of the ring and looks the more fresher pushing Canelo into the ropes at times in the 7th.

Canelo looks flustered and dropping his hands. He looks tired.

6-1 but judges will have it closer for Canelo.

[Master]

Canelo starts aggressively in round 8 but Bivol fires back and has Canelo on the ropes for the remainder of round 8. Bivol being careful and cautious, maybe needs to dominate the round more as he is not the house fighter.

6-2

[Master]

Canelo starts aggressively again round 9 as Bivol moves around. Bivol pushes Canelo back but Saul let's his hands go to win the round.

6-3

[Master]

Bivol has to dominate these last 3 rounds to win.

Bivol landing harder jabs as Canelo looks tired, flat footed and arms down.

Canelo is fighting on the ropes and being pushed back now.

Both look tired with their arms down now.

7-3 Bivol.

[Spicoli]

Canelo landed a couple of singles, left to body but Canelo visibly feeling it as Bivol is putting shots together right off. Accurate sharp volume vs thudding one or two.