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A vital appearance at the past week in boxing
BIGGEST WINNER
Canelo Alvarez
Alvarez mostlikely isn’t the finest fighter in the world pound-for-pound, as he recommended after his one-sided choice over Jaime Munguia on Saturday in Las Vegas. That nod goes to Terence Crawford (Boxing Junkie’s No. 1) or Naoya Inoue these days.
The 33-year-old Mexican star is making a strong case that news of his decrease is early, .
Alvarez (61-2-2, 39 KOs) looked like a fading fighter in his loss to Dmitry Bivol in 2022 and slow success over Gennadiy Golovkin and John Ryder that followed. He looked a lot more like the old sharpshooting Alvarez in choices over Jermell Charlo and now Munguia.
What was the distinction? He’s healthy. His surgically fixed left wrist, which dogged him through is worst efficiencies, is now 100%.
He definitely looked to be near his finest versus Munguia, who unloaded a lot of punches however couldn’t pierce Alvarez’s safe defense regularly enough to make the battle close. And Alvarez, who tosses less punches however makes them count, landed nearly at will. He landed 49.7% of his power punches, according to CompuBox.
The outcome was probably Alvarez’s finest efficiency consideringthat he controlled Callum Smith in 2020, one that definitely preserves his subscription in the unique pound-for-pound club.
However, it’s crucial not to get brought away. Impressive success over Charlo and Munguia bring minimal weight since the previous moved up 2 departments for the battle and Munguia is still establishing. Even Alvarez pointed to a glaring weakpoint on the part of the latter after the battle.
“He’s strong, however he’s a little sluggish. I can see every punch [coming],” Alvarez stated.
Alvarez has one apparent method of proving beyond doubt that he is the exactsame fighter who climbedup to the leading of lotsof pound-for-pound lists and stayed there for years: Beating David Benavidez, a powerful fighter numerous think he hasactually been ducking.
He was asked onceagain after his success over Munguia whether he’d be prepared to lastly face Benavidez, who is arranged to take on Oleksandr Gvozdyk at 175 pounds on June 15.
Alvarez made it clear that he would do so if the cash is best, significance he needs that his payday be commensurate with the danger of dealingwith his mostsignificant danger at168 And, while he was still within the ropes, he saw Benavidez in the crowd, locked eyes with him and pointed to the ring as if to state, “I’ll satisfy you here.”
Let’s hope he’s severe. The fans desire to see that battle, presuming Benavidez beats