Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-11-02, Saul Alvarez vs Sergey Kovalev gets three stars thanks to a good finish.The world champion in three different weight classes Saul Canelo Alvarez entered this fight with a professional record of 52-1-2 (35 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.1 middleweight in the world. He suffered his only loss when he faced Floyd Mayweather Jr in 2013 (via majority decision, Mayweather vs Alvarez), since then Canelo has collected ten victories and one draw, facing twice Gennady Golovkin: both fights ended with a controversial decision, a split decision draw the first one (Saul Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin I) and a majority decision win the second one (4-stars fight, Gennady Golovkin vs Saul Canelo Alvarez II); after this bout he has beat Rocky Fielding in the super middleweight division (Saul Canelo Alvarez vs Rocky Fielding) and Daniel Jacobs in the middleweights (Saul Canelo Alvarez vs Daniel Jacobs).
His opponent, the former Ibf, Wba and current WBO light-Hw champion Sergey Kovalev, has an official boxing record of 34-3-1 (29 KOs=85%) and he entered as the No.1 light heavyweight. He lost to Eleider Alvarez in 2018 (the Russian was ahead on points but he was knocked out in the seventh round, Sergey Kovalev vs Eleider Alvarez I) but then he has won the rematch (Eleider Alvarez vs Sergey Kovalev II) and he has also beat Anthony Yarde in 2019 (Sergey Kovalev vs Anthony Yarde). Canelo Alvarez vs Kovalev is valid for the WBO World light heavyweight title (Kovalev’s second defense). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2019-11-02
Where: MGM Grand, Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Division: light heavyweight (175 lbs, 79.4 kg)
Title: WBO World light heavyweight title
Canelo’s next fight: Saul Canelo Alvarez vs Callum Smith
Kovalev’s next fight: Sergey Kovalev vs Tervel Pulev
Canelo vs Kovalev full fight video:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGVzJ1VL410
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Pretty boring fight. Looked to me as though Kovalev was holding all his power back. Looked pretty obvious to me with just touching jabs and no power shots really to speak of. The final result looked suss, hands completely dropped while turning away from the shots on the ropes. Scores at time of stoppage 96-94, 96,94, 95-95 to guess who. Dont know what fight they were watching. Hah anyway. Peace.
Seriously.. can you say “fixed”?
Right from the opening bell, nothing but touching jabs from Kovalev. I suspected a fix before the fight, and I was proven right. Watch Kovalev’s interview right after the fight too. He looks so awkward, with a weird smile on his face.
Exactly. Its a shame really. All sports where money is involved are the same or similar though. People would be either naive or ignorant to not realise that. Just dont ever pay to watch it is my choice. Its basically a hybrid of WWE wrestling in many of these big fights these days. The fans lose ultimately-Kovalev didnt as he got paid millions hah.
Yes 100% fixed !
I don’t know what to take from this fight. Kovalev looked off but maybe he was scared to be countered. The Krusher was gone, that’s for sure.
That was a fixed fight ! Kovalev had no intention to win after cashing in 12.5 Mio $.
Canelo was visualizing Oscar’s face on Kovalev through out that fight.
You should remove the first video. Big spoiler in the thumbnail. ;)
Thanks. :)
thanks to your first message! sometimes we don’t pay attention to details;-)
You’re already doing an outstanding job, it may happen. :)
What a bloody disgrace to boxing, this was fixed in the board room with all parties months ago. Kovalov may as well have held his left glove up his ar*e so that he could get hit with a right. this fight has lowered my estimation of Canelo as well. All kovalovs so cslled blows were aimed at his gloves or fresh air. what a rorte. The big payday ripoff. to a genuine boxing fan as soon as this matchup was announced it was obvious that the fix was in. The longer this farce went on the mofe obvious it became. I’ m off to watch some back episodes of big time wrestling!!!!!
By using his reach advantage Kovalev was doing the perfect fight and winning most of round and also because the limited action put for his very captious rival. However, the strategy put in action by Canelo payed the proper rewards due to his relentless seek for an opening in Kovalev’s defense, his incredible punching speed and because Kovalev was running out of gas. Honestly, I though that Kovalev was going to get the title due to the apparently lack of action from Saul who finally produced an excellent knock out just about time.
I have a little of doubt about a concerted fight result but I just prefer to think that what I saw here was for real unless both guys are perfect actors.
The reach advantage was a big factor in this fight and, the fact that most of the Kovalev’s punches landed in Saul’s gloves was only because the skilled defense performed by Saul.
Tango, very appropriate name. it takes two to tango and those two set out to fo*l the punters. Watch the fight again and watch both of these actors. Once upon a time Canelo and Kovalov were boxers, now they are just puppets hung on strings by the promoters.