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For: Kike Frías Updated 11 May 2022, one: 48 am EDT
Last Saturday, May 7, the stellar Mexican boxer Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez lost the second fight in his professional career against Dmitry Bivol, who was fighting for the light heavyweight belt of the World Boxing Association. Boxing (WBA).
The defeat caught many analysts and the vast majority of the boxing community off guard who saw the boxer from 31 years as the favorite against the Russian , but the reality is that the challenge for Canelo was tough: moving up from category to face a light heavyweight resident, with an entire career at that weight.
However, Canelo always knew the challenge he was taking on, as well as his coach Eddy Reynoso. Both, in the heat of the fight and when everything seemed lost, with a silenced T-Mobile Arena before what seemed to be a sure victory for Bivol, had the full confidence of reversing the situation in the last and definitive twelfth (12) round.
A video released by Matchroom Boxing follows all the key moments of the great fight played on the weekend of Cinco de Mayo, a date highly respected and honored by Mexican fighters.
In the material you can see how Reynoso gives you instructions keys to Saúl Álvarez
before the start of the three key minutes of the last assault, the 12.
“It’s the last round, bastard. Give your best, two blows and move your waist”, Eddy tells Canelo. The wear of the unified super middleweight champion was evident, Bivol had surpassed him for much of the fight.
But Reynoso insists and motivates him, he sees hope, rules out a knockout and tells his boxer to seek to strike smartly to win the vote of the judges: “He’s heavier than you, you can’t knock him out anymore.”
Finally Dmitry Bivol won the fight by decision of the judges and extended his winning streak to 12. Canelo had to accept the second setback of his career but insists on a rematch.
Keep reading:
- Dmitry Bivol’s Californian trainer warns Canelo that could “do him a lot of damage” in a rematch
- “Canelo is still a legend and I will give him a rematch, but it is not my goal”: Dmitry Bivol spoke about a second fight with Saúl Álvarez
- Oscar de la Hoya and his spicy message for Canelo Álvarez after his defeat with Dmitry Bivol