“El Canelo” pounds Mosley to defend his WBC super welterweight crown

Just as expected, WBC Super Welterweight champion Saul “el Canelo” Alvarez (40-0, 29KO’s) took it to the aging former world champion “Sugar” Shane Mosley (46-8, 39KO’s). From the beginning to the end of the fight, the undefeated Alvarez proved to be too strong in the ring. Although the game Mosley did make it the full twelve rounds, his punches never seemed to hurt the young Alvarez.Canelo started off the early rounds with straight jabs and good body punches and he moved methodically in the ring toward Mosley. Mosley still had some quickness in his punches, but it seemed like he was just hitting a punching bag. Every time Mosley would land a punch that was usually blocked by Alvarez, Alvarez’ counter punches had much more power. In the second round, Mosley began to force the action and Alvarez just calmly blocked the punches and waited for the openings. Alvarez then started connecting with hard body punches and landed a good left hook to the head of Mosley and he winced with pain. ...