Shades of fury pass the face of Canelo Álvarez. They come and go quickly, the cloud destroys one moment, neat the next one, changing in an instant. After weighing, he rounded the Caleb plant with his gaze burning aggression on the last face, and then turned, almost immediately smiled tenderly at his youthful family and waved happily at the fans legion.

These supporters poured almost exclusively to Las Vegas to celebrate him. If he was energizing, he was focused until the fight, stable, when a crowd sold out around him, over 16,000 forceful, roared with shouts of tiring pleasure. Just setting a foot on the arena at MGM Grand On Saturday was everything Canelo had to do for this mass of fans to hit the deafening fever.

The appearance of the gloomy concentration was taken over by his expression when the first bell freed him to his American opponent, and his face changed again to almost furious satisfaction, when after a demanding, pulsating fight he could finally turn around to take victory and leave the plant on board at 1-05 11.

The plant entered this fight terribly to prove. The quality of an unauthorized warrior never worked at the Canelo level. In his best win he raised the IBF belt from José Uzcátegui. Now he was undoubtedly boxing the global star of this sport. Carnival and chaos of being in the center of the largest program in the city is at the moment the natural Canelo habitat. The plant did not do anything before, and in the brilliant Mexico put him a boxer with the highest caliber, with skills, experience and amazing power.

But a man from Ashland City, a tiny town near Nashville, was more than His boxing record 21-0. In the past, he survived the shocking experiences of his infant daughter, and his mother was killed by a police shooter. For some people, life hits much more than even Canelo álvarez at the peak.

For a man from a fighting city in Tennessee, unknown to world boxing, until the Caleb plant appeared, it could be said that this fight with this antagonist at this stage was an opportunity to create his name. Caleb called it his destiny.

The plant reacted to the crowd of Las Vegas, abandoning her pregnancy that it said: “It is effortless to sit on these seats.” The need to be a man in the ring is much more tough. But Canelo himself did not discourage him. At the first press conference they had a physical quarrel, and the plant did not avoid the six -month suspension of Álvarez in 2018. In the event of an undesirable result of the drug test, although he later said that he was satisfied with the tests of this fight.

Álvarez was in an unusual shape in 168 pounds. In December last year, displacement and container outside Callum Smith within 12 rounds, the 31-year-old left Liverpudlian with a devastated swollen arm. After an effortless victory over Avni Yildirim, he crashed the talented Billy Joe Saunders at the stadium in Texas, setting a attendance record at the American boxing event. In this process he built his popularity, refined his significant skill set even more and gathered three of the four sanctioning body belts. He wanted to complete his collection against plants. What’s more significant, this fight consisted of deciding about the real master of Super Middleight in the world. Canelo is a man with extraordinary determination and he knew that this fight would support him resolve his own place in the history of boxing.

In order for the plant to make such a leap in the classroom, instead of having evidence from the experience of a truly elite achievement to work, Caleb had to rely on pure self -confidence. It wasn’t a bad foundation. He did not have enough tools to win, but it was certainly competitive, especially in the first half of this struggle for the world championship super medium weight.

The concentrated Álvarez observed the plant in the first round. He exerted pressure, developing, but throwing a few blows. However, the plant used its stab, growing and finding opportunities to move through Canelo gloves. He folded well and came, even when álvarez became more and more perilous at the end of the round.

I succeeded that the speed of the plant was perceptible when he shot one or two in the body of Canelo and broke the flashing left up the chin álvarez. His blows flickered on Álvarez, landing when the plant withdrew. But Álvarez still became ahead, closing the plant in a neutral corner and stuck forceful straight hooks towards America. Canelo was not so busy, but he threw his hands with neat power, generating a sigh of the crowd every time he gave up. Plants moved from side to side, changing his direction to prevent him from being pinned by Álvarez. But Mexican diligently folded his body with his left hooks when he reached the range. The American began to feel them. He started slowing down.

In the fourth round, Caleb made a mistake. With his back pressed on the ropes, trying to escape from the right hook, he approached the left. Canelo grabbed and opened it, bombing the plant with the cluster of these more tough shots.

He continued trust in these left hooks, convinced that the investment would pay off later in the competition. He dominated the sixth round, fighting with the well -known confidence. When the plant was worried about the left body hook, Canelo hit his head. He drilled on the right and showed his unique reactions when he slipped into the plant stabbing around.

But in the seventh round, Álvarez softened the pressure on the plant. He stood on the ropes, daring for the American to come for him. Caleb tried to stand, but he was reluctant to take the bait. So Álvarez accelerated his aggression. He went forward, wanting to suppress the movement of the plant. Mighty rights hit the body, and Canelo was still turning in the left hook.

The ninth was round, which the Mexican star predicted that she would find the finish. But it escaped him. He went to the plant, trying to meet his forecast. The American resisted pressure, even working in a sequence of elementary blows, which ended in his proper career.

Canelo’s coach, Eddy Reynoso, had the task to make sure his fee remained on the right track. “The first few rounds were difficult,” said Canelo. “Eddy was the one who calmed me down whenever I got to his corner and became a bit restless, he always told me the right things, held me on my way, held me on the right path, and then the game plan.”

It was also a birthday of Reynoso, but every ceremony would have to wait. “I was a bit frustrated, especially in the first five rounds,” continued álvarez. “The second half of the fight, we imagined so, and eventually we came out with a win. That’s all that really counts. Finally, although the frustration was in the first five rounds, the second part – it was perfect.”

There was a clear difference in power between warriors. Álvarez could land from shots, and his massive hands landed with effect. However, even in the 10th round he could not get the results he wanted with these forceful body rights.

So when the end came, it was suddenly. Canelo has passed a left hook. The impact pushed the head of the plant down, and álvarez found a place for a monstrous upper right upper ass. It woven in the jaw, throwing the plant on his hands and knees. The influence was stunning. When the whole arena fell to his feet, Plant pushed forward and the top, trying to regain balance, but sent he half yoging through the ring. He tried to stay, pulling the gloves and nodding to the judge Russell Mory that he could continue. Canelo was after him, chasing him, completely ruthless. With the next wide -ranging left hook, álvarez shook him badly. He chased the plant to the ropes and was not supposed to escape anywhere. Canelo rolled the right down, sat on the left to set the cross that moved from the side of the plant’s head. Blunt strength fell to the ropes, leaving on canvas.

Canelo turned. He did not have to check the judge like a second look to know that the fight was won. At the time of the triumph, Álvarez ran in the ring and jumped onto the corner post, shaking his fist in the air as the arena exploded around him. It was spectacular close to the program.

“It was a really historic night and I am very proud that I am part of it,” said Álvarez later. “Connection [with his fans] I’ve always been there and I am really content and I am very content that Mexican fans can come and witness a fight and share success with me. “

The plant will be taken to the hospital as a precaution, but first it talked to Canelo immediately in the ring. Bad blood from a press conference, when the plant called it a cluster ** ker, was put aside. Canelo said later: “After the fight he told me he wanted to fight, he wanted to continue, and also apologized to me and what he said about my mother – he did not mean this and I was really sorry and I told him,” All right, he was water under the bridge. ” I told him he was a great man – said álvarez. “We don’t have to draw anything from the Caleba plant. He is a great warrior, a great boxer, he made a great effort.

“We are people and we want the best for ourselves in the sport in which we have to hurt. We are people, and what is happening in the ring in the ring.”

Aftewards, Álvarez stood on the podium for the last audience in the media. Pro at the age of 15, currently a veteran of 60 professional attacks, has been confirmed as a world leader in sport. It is a position that will be questioned in the coming years, maybe earlier than we thought. But now it’s at the top. “I love boxing so much,” he said. “Just like now as 16 years ago. I have never lost my discipline, this passion and I am here.”

He spoke like a state husband. Around his right eye was a bit slightly bruises, the only signs left on him after the fight. It was imperceptible from afar. With a last smile, the master could leave the stage. His face was dazzling again.

Verdict Álvarez is at the top of sport and the peak. But it will remain there is never effortless.

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