By Ken Hissner: On the MGM Grand, Grand Backyard Area, Las Vegas, Nevada, Saturday, Tom Brown (TGB Promotions), PCB Champions and Saul Alvarez (Canelo Promotions, offered within the Foremost Occasion WBA, WBC, WBO World Tremendous Middleweight champion Mexico’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez unified the titles stopping IBF World Tremendous Middleweight champion Caleb “Sweethands” Plant within the eleventh spherical over PPV Showtime, earlier than 16,500 in attendance.
Within the Foremost Occasion WBA, WBC, WBO World Tremendous Middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, 57-1-2 (39), #168, of Guadalajara, Jalisco, MEX, unified stopping BF World Tremendous Middleweight champion Caleb “Sweethands” Plant, 21-1 (12), #167, of Las Vegas, NV, and Nashville, TN, stopping him at 1:05 of the eleventh spherical of a scheduled 12 rounds.
Within the first spherical, it wasn’t to virtually a minute remaining Alvarez threw his first punch a chopping proper to the pinnacle of Plant. Plant moved and landed quite a few jabs. Within the second spherical, Plant continued following his recreation plan of shifting and jabbing. Alvarez bought in some chopping rights when the taller Plant bent down. It was a a lot better spherical for Alvarez however not sufficient to win the spherical. Within the third and fourth rounds, Alvarez was in a position to get in some energy pictures making Plant maintain for essentially the most half. Each landed large left hooks within the remaining ten seconds of the fourth.
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Within the fifth spherical, Plant moved extra as he did within the first two rounds and jabbed. This was sufficient to take the spherical. Within the sixth spherical, Plant would lean to his proper and get hit by chopping Alvarez by all through the primary half of the spherical. He surprised Plant with a minute remaining within the spherical with a left hook to the chin. Within the seventh spherical, on the midway level, Alvarez missed a chopping proper and bought hit with a counter left hook from Plant. It was a greater spherical for Plant whereas a conflict of heads occurred within the remaining thirty seconds. Within the eighth spherical, it was all Alvarez as Plant did little shifting.
Within the ninth spherical, from the midway level on, Plant landed mixtures and, within the remaining twenty seconds, a flurry of half a dozen unanswered punches. Within the tenth spherical, it was all Alvarez once more getting chopping rights on when inside when Plant slowed down, not shifting as a lot within the spherical.
Within the eleventh spherical, Alvarez having Plant in opposition to the ropes, a left, proper, and one other hook on the way in which down all on the chin, dropped Plant. He was up at 8 when referee Russell Mora requested if he wished to proceed, and he nodded sure however was unsteady on his toes and clearly damage. Alvarez raced after him and attacked with a pair of rights on the facet of his head and neck, and down went Plant for the depend.
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Tremendous Light-weight southpaw Elvis “The Dominican Child” Rodriguez, 12-1-1 (10), #142, of Santo Domingo, DR, knocked out Juan “El Pivi” Pablo Romero, 14-1 (9), #143, of Villa del Carbon, at 2:59 of the fifth spherical of a scheduled 12 rounds.
Within the fourth spherical, Rodriguez scored a knockdown. Within the fifth spherical, he knocked out Romero.
Tremendous Bantamweight WBC World Tremendous Bantamweight champion Rey Vargas, 35-0 (22), #125, of Otumba, MEX, defeated Leonaredo “Cuate” Baez, 21-5 (12), #126 ½, of Mexicali, Baja California, MEX, over ten rounds in a Non-Title struggle.
Within the first 5 rounds, Vargas was pitching a shutout! Within the sixth and seventh rounds, Vargas continued a physique assault hurting Baez a number of occasions every spherical. Within the eighth spherical, Baez continues to be the aggressor however runs into counterpunches by Vargas. Within the ninth spherical, resulting from a conflict of heads, Baez was reduce on the appropriate facet of his head. Within the tenth and remaining spherical, Baez tried however bumped into counterpunches by Vargas.
Scores had been 99-91, 100-90 twice, as did this author rating it.
Within the co-feature, Former two-time Tremendous Middleweight World champion Anthony “The Canine” Dirrell, 34-2-2 (25), #168 ½, of Flint, MI, knocked out Marcos “Madman” Hernandez, 15-5-2 (3), #168 ½, of Fresno, CA, at 0:22 of the fourth spherical of a scheduled ten rounds.
Within the first spherical, Dirrell got here out firing a flurry of punches backing Hernandez right into a nook. Hernandez grabbed him and managed to get by the spherical. Within the second spherical, Hernandez held his personal, making an attempt to tough it up with Dirrell however not fairly sufficient to win the spherical. Within the third spherical, Hernandez out-landed Dirrell with uppercuts. Within the fourth spherical, Dirrell countered a Hernandez jab with a proper uppercut on the chin, and down went Hernandez on his again as referee Celestino Ruiz counted him out.
Welterweight Rance “Child Blast” Barthelemy, 29-1-1 (15), #143, of Cuba and Miami, FL, stopped Gustavo David Vittori, 25-10-1 (12), #143, of Concordia, ARG, at 1:54 of the second spherical of an 8.
Tremendous Featherweight Jose “El Gallo” Manuel Gomez, 12-1 (5), #131, of Huntington Park, CA, misplaced to Jose “Pepao” Antonio Meza, 8-6 (2), #132, of Gomez Palacio, Durango, MEX, over eight rounds.
All scores 76-75
Flyweight Joselito “El Huracan” Velazquez, 14-0-1 (9), #114, of MEX and West Covina, CA, defeated Gilberto Mendoza, 19-11-3 (10), #114, of Modesto, CA, over 8 rounds.
All scores had been 80-72.
Tremendous Flyweight Jan “Nito” Salvatierra, 7-1 (3), #?113 of Los Cabos, Baja California, MEX, was knocked out by Fernando “Leoncito” Diaz, 10-2-1 (2), #114, of Riverside, CA, within the fifth spherical of a 6.
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