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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3856047, member: 289"] A night of weird endings on DAZN. First Nagy Aguilera quits against Frank Sanchez, claiming a foul and flopping all over the place. The punch he complained about clipped his shoulder and went around the back of his head without actually impacting the head. After the fight he claimed a shoulder injury and complained that Sanchez had been hitting him in the shoulder the whole fight. I didn't know that was illegal. Aguilera walked off to a chorus of boos. Then Kieron Conway arguably loses every round but one to Souleymane Cissokho. But in that round, he hit him right on the eye and decked him. The commentators said that the two most painful punches to take are to the liver and directly to the eye. But Conway was unable to follow up. One judge had the fight 117-112 for Conway and the color guy said he agreed with that until the blow-by-blow guy told him that card was for Conway, not Cisskho. Elwin Soto vs. Katsunari Takayama was a classic heavy puncher vs. volume puncher fight. How do you judge it? We didn't have to. Soto blocked most of Takayama's punches but not all. Still; they seemed to have little impact on him until he began to slow down in the middle of the fight. Soto's punches drove Takayama back every time he landed them, again until the middle of the fight. Suddenly Soto lost aggressiveness and steam on his punches. Takayama seemed to have turned the fight around until Soto got the better of an exchange in round 9. It didn't seem more significant than any of their other exchanges during the fight but the referee suddenly stepped in and declared Soto the winner. Takayama complained loudly and even put on a shadowboxing display for the fans to show he was ready to keep going before exiting to the cheers of the crowd. In the finale, I thought Billy Joe Saunders, an excellent boxer, would give Canelo Alvarez some trouble but that he lacked the firepower to win the fight. That was mostly right. Saunders was very cautious in the early rounds, using the 22 foot ring he had demanded to keep his distance. Canelo likes to counter-punch, catching his opponent coming in or after a miss so he had trouble exerting control of the fight. But the salient thing is that his punches knocked Saunders backwards while Saunders' punches had little impact on Canelo. In the middle of the fight, Saunders relaxed and even got a little cocky, lowering his hands and punching from his hips. That somehow seemed to work and he was able to bother Alvarez with some swift combinations. Canelo seemed confused as to how to attack him. I gave Saunders the 5th round. Then Canelo decided to really go after him and began knocking Saunders around. He even motioned to his fans, who had filled Jerry Jones' massive edifice, to make some noise. In the eighth round, Saunders was clearly hurt and started looking for a place to hide but even in his 22 foot ring, there was none. People were shocked when Saunders didn't come out for the 9th round. but Canelo wasn't: he later said he knew he'd "broken his cheek". it was the same thing that happened to Kell Brook against Golovkin and Spence: a broken orbital bone. You can't keep fighting when they break your face. Alvarez is now looking to fight Caleb Plant and unite all the super middle titles, (they've never been held by one man: modern boxing :mad:). Failing that, he's now willing to entertain a third fight with GGG. he's running out of credible opponents. [/QUOTE]

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