Big Canelo WBA, WBO, WBC, supermiddleweight King.

Texas, great crowd, great cheer, an event the reunification of three belts, and show it was.

Not a slow start, already after the first minute of the first round, Canelo closes the distance and begins to bring body shots that hurt, but so much; perhaps the greatest number of blows is brought by Saunders, who also wins according to the judges, as the fifth.

From the second to the fourth Canelo is like a feline who is hungry and goes to flush out his prey, deadly combinations, scrupulous body work, right uppercuts come in, heedless of the reaction of the Englishman, who always tries to respond and from the fifth he does a good job with his legs and brings good shots, he works a lot with the jab anticipating it and moving and we know that this is boring, as a southpaw he comes well for the right hander, it is difficult to find the bandana of the skein, from the sixth even though the Englishman moves well, some deadly blows come from Canelo, which shows why he is the undisputed champion of the category, B. J. in some moments tries to mock him, but we all know that the blows that arrive leave a mark, B.J. continues to try to move and to bring blows, but Canelo is a bull terrier, he is always there, he cuts the ring and brings the series; the match is beautiful and also balanced in the exchanges, the difference is the power, that of the Mexican, you can hear it even in the microphones, he cuts the air and when he arrives he stops the Englishman, who however is good at pretending that everything is fine. Between the sixth and the seventh other work to the body, other combinations, in the seventh Saunders works puts shots, responds by bothering Canelo, makes a nice rhythm moves continuously in a ring, so large that it seems to have been made, specifically for him.

Eighth, Canelo enters perhaps with more decision, more hunger, the effect of those blows so far are felt, and the work is endless, we have seen all the shots, including left and right uppercut, that is, this Mr. Canelo has also put the left uppercut in addition to the right, against a left-handed world champion, it is called Anthology of boxing; in the eighth round, while he was striking non-stop, he was inciting the public, which was roaring and cheering him on while Canelo was dominating Saunders; in our opinion, he had sensed that the damage done was big. B.J. Saunders does not get up at the end of the eighth, they try to medicate him, his right eye is badly reduced, too risky to go on. Canelo is Canelo, too strong for the stoic Englishman.

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