LAS VEGAS — WBA gentle heavyweight winner Dmitry Bivol retained his title by defeating Saul “Canelo” Alvarez by unanimous selection Saturday night time.
The unbeaten Bivol (20-, 11 KOs), who has held a version of his belt considering that May perhaps 2016, handed Alvarez (57-2-2, 39 KOs) just the 2nd defeat of his occupation.
Alvarez moved back again up to the heaviest bodyweight of his vocation to contend for the 175-pound title.
Alvarez fought at light-weight heavyweight only one particular other time in his vocation, beating Sergey Kovalev in late 2019.
After opening the struggle with a trio of pretty close rounds, it was very clear Bivol would be ready to make the most of his strengths with arrive at and top, to pepper Alvarez and maintain him off when charging with his electrical power punches.
Alvarez tried using, at situations, to use his intimidating methods to taunt Bivol.
With a rematch clause in the contract, Alvarez explained afterward in the ring he needed a rematch with the Kyrgyzstan-born Russian champion.
Bivol responded: “No difficulty.”
In the co-key event at 140 pounds, Montana Like (18--1, 10 KOs) beat Gabriel Valenzuela (25-3-1, 15 KOs) by unanimous decision with similar scores from all 3 judges (114-112). With the get, Adore solidifies himself as a contender in the junior welterweight division.
Also from the key undercard, Shakhram Giyasov (13-, 9 KOs) conquer Christian Gomez (22-3-1, 20 KOs) by unanimous determination (98-89, 99-88, 99-88) in a 10-spherical welterweight bout.
Marc Castro (7-, 5 KOs) won by means of unanimous determination (60-54) about Pedro Vicente (7-5-1, 2 KOs).
Zhilei Zhang (24--1, 19 KOs) knocked out Scott Alexander just 1:54 in the initially spherical in a heavyweight clash. Alexander was a substitution just after Filip Hrgovic was pressured to withdraw from his scheduled bout from Zhang.
Previously Saturday, Joselito Velazquez (15--1, 10 KOs) received with a 6th-spherical TKO in excess of Jose Soto (15-2, 6 KOs).
Aaron Silva (10-, 7 KOs) received by using fourth-spherical TKO about Alexis Espino (9-1-1, 6 KOs).
Elnur Abduraimov (9-, 8 KOs) gained by way of 2nd-spherical TKO over Manny Correa (11-1, 7 KOs).
Fernando Molina (8-, 3 KOs) won a break up determination around Ricardo Valdovinos (8-2, 5 KOs) with scores of 58-56, 57-56 for Molina and 57-56 for Valdavinos.
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