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Earlier this Sunday morning, a 30-year-old Mexican competed in a professional boxing tournament in Miami, United States. Saulis „Canelo“ Alvarezas (55-1-2, 37 knockouts) and a 29-year-old Turk Avni Yildirimas (21-3-0, 12 knockout).
Canelo brought the belts of the second WBC and WBA (super) middleweight world champion into the fight, and the Turk was named his opponent. Before the fight, A. Tildirimas was second in the WBC ranking and ninth in the WBA, although he has not won in almost two and a half years.
From the very beginning of the fight, S. Alvarez, who announced the start of the fight, sought victory by knockout and showed his obvious advantage. In the third round, S. Álvarez sent the opponent down, and finally A. Yildirimo’s coaches did not suffer seeing his pupil seriously injured and after the end of the third round he threw a towel into the ring and stopped the fight.
TKO in the 3rd round! #boxing #CaneloYildirim #Cinnamon pic.twitter.com/ohU9CjVCsD
– Highly favored sports (@officialHFS_) February 28, 2021
No boxing, no life. pic.twitter.com/d3f14seFJj
– DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) February 28, 2021
After the third round, Tildirimas was still in the corner planning to go to the ring for at least another three minutes, and coach Joel Diaz asked his student to show something else after three weak rounds.
“I’ll give you another dressed round,” Diaz said.
However, another member of A. Yildirim’s corner asked to stop the fight and the judges granted such a request.
Following this fight, Matchroom Boxing manager Eddie Hearn confirmed that Alvarez will face the WBO champion on May 8. Billy Joe Saundersu. The place of the battle is not yet known.
“I wanted to show a good fight,” said 15,000 translators. fans said Álvarez. “I needed to knock him out and I did.”
According to CompuBox statistics, S. Álvarez outscored the opponent 67-11.
The last time A. Yildirimas fought in 2019 in February and lost to former WBC up to 168 pound champion Anthony Dirrell due to a cross injury. At that time, A. Yildirimas led the judges’ cards and led the fight, but in the 10th round she was suspended due to medics and did not allow A. Yildirimas to continue the fight.
Yildirim’s performance persuaded WBC to keep him at the top of the rankings, although two months later it turned out that two performance-enhancing drugs (DHCMT and methylclostebol) had been found in his blood. However, the WBC stated that it had closed the case because the investigation had revealed that these preparations had inadvertently entered the body of A. Yildirimo from a specific contaminated product.
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