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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4360250, member: 289"] I've now seen all three of the Canelo-Alvarez - Gennady Golovkin fights and all three have had the same general pattern: GGG, the older man, seems to get stronger as the bout goes on and to win most of the late rounds. Unfortunately, the commentators often seem to develop a scenario for the fight and to describe their scenario rather than the actual action of the fight and I think this happened tonight. I agree with one point they made: that Canelo-Alvarez' superior hand speed cause GGG to be tentative, afraid to "let his hands go" or really lean into his punches. But they kept describing that even when GGG decided to be aggressive and risk the punishment to score shots of his own. Many of those shots were from his piston-like jab while Canelo went with powerful counters, many of them to the body. The impact of canelo's punches might have been greater but those jabs are scoring punches, too. I have no problem scoring a round even if I think there was no clear winner: those rounds should not decide the fight. I graded the first round even because not much happened. Then I gave Canelo four rounds in a row: GGG didn't seem to want to take any chances and Canelo was backing him up. But then Gennady got that jab going and I gave him the 6th, 8th, 9th and 11th rounds with rounds 10 and 12 even: 116-115 for Canelo. The judges had it for Canelo as well, 116-112 and 115-113. The commentators couldn't believe how close the scores were: hadn't the judges been listening to them? At no time in the 36 rounds of the three fighters did either fighter have the other in any serious danger of being knocked out, even though they have knocked out a combined 76 men. they truly are two of the best middleweights of all time. Their first two fights were constant action, with both fighters winning portions of each round, making the fights very difficult to score. I'd been rooting to Canelo in each because people said that GGG was invincible and thought Canelo could be the guy to beat him. I graded both fights for Golovkin but Canelo got a draw and a win. I did think he won this one but that it was a lot closer than the talking heads realized. Nonetheless, this appears to be the end of the trilogy. Now we wait for Crawford-Spence. [/QUOTE]

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