His simple stroll to the ring was somewhat undermined by the festival that followed, as fireworks, dancers and a 150-strong Mariachi band greeted Canelo and gave the impression that the boxing element of the night was a slight inconvenience. The sense that this was going to be an almost impossible night for Ryder was cemented from the moment he stepped out into the Estadio Akron and was greeted with a chorus of boos, before he spent the next 15 minutes finding out exactly where the ring walk budget had gone. He is now expected to turn his focus to a rematch with Bivol, a bout that Canelo has insisted must take place at 175lbs once again as he looks to step up to light-heavyweight and avenge last year’s points defeat to the Russin. I needed a couple of rounds to start punching and know I am good with that hand. When asked if he was entirely confident with his hand heading into the fight, he responded: “Not at the beginning.
I respect my opponents because I know they’re coming for everything.” “It felt different, it’s a lot of responsibility with my people who support me,” Canelo said of fighting in front of his home fans. The result was never in doubt, one judge scoring it 120-107 in the Mexican’s favour and the other two cards having him 118-109 ahead, leaving Ryder as the eighth entry to the list of British fighters defeated by Canelo, who keeps a firm hold of his WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF and Ring Magazine belts.
Ryder was remarkably brave though and continued to fire back as Canelo relentlessly marched forward and pushed for the stoppage win, and the sound of the final bell served as a moral victory against arguably the biggest name in the sport. Canelo was well on course to do just that when he dropped Ryder in the fifth round with a sharp right hand, with the blood already streaming from the British man’s nose. Ryder meanwhile came into this bout with five defeats on his record, three of those to fighters comfortably beaten by Canelo, and so the pressure was on the home favourite to deliver a statement display in front of almost 50,000 fans in Guadalajara.
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Canelo Alvarez was taken the full 12 rounds by John Ryder, but enjoyed a successful return to Mexico as he defended his undisputed super-middleweight crown with a wide points victory.įighting on home soil for the first time in over a decade, Canelo entered the ring looking to respond to a relatively poor 2022 by his lofty standards, a year that saw him lose to Dmitry Bivol and win a largely uneventful bout with Gennady Golovkin on the cards before undergoing surgery on his left hand.
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