Watch the knockout punch you didn’t get from Mayweather-Pacquiao
Saul “Canelo’’ Alvarez delivered what Floyd Mayweather Jr. did not: A crushing knockout punch.
One week after the highly anticipated Mayweather-Pacquiao fight failed to live up to expectations, Alvarez (45-1-1) put on a show for boxing fans with a punishing defeat of James Kirkland (32-2) in a junior middleweight bout Saturday night at Minute Maid Park in Houston. After twice knocking down Kirkland in the early stages of the fight, Alvarez ended it with a devastating right-handed blow in the third round.
“I did not see the punch coming that knocked me out,’’ Kirkland said after the fight, via The Associated Press.
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Even if Kirkland didn’t see the decisive punch, the electrifying knockout would have been a welcome sight to anyone bored by Mayweather’s methodical victory by unanimous decision over Pacquiao on May 2 in Las Vegas.
“You got a boxing match last week, this is a fight,’’ HBO boxing commentator Roy Jones Jr. said of the difference between the bouts.
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