Stats and scorecards review points to Canelo vs Saunders draw at TKO

Ed Mulholland

A consensus scorecard overview alongside the Canelo Alvarez vs. Billy Joe Saunders battle statistics reveals nearly all of 1000’s tallying the battle scored it a draw.

Upon gathering over two thousand totals for the Texas record-breaker, it states the aggressive encounter may have been degree after eight accomplished rounds.

World Boxing Information scored the competition 76-76 when going dwell on web site. However many Canelo followers and stateside media personnel couldn’t see Saunders profitable any rounds in any respect.

This dismissal irked the British followers and precipitated a back-and-forth of social channels. WBN then determined to analyze.

Upon analyzing many, many playing cards for the conflict, the huge swaying of factors and stats lean-to Saunders profitable the primary spherical.

In response to the numbers, he then took the fifth, sixth, and seventh as Canelo labored out his fashion.

Throughout the eighth, that’s when Canelo turned. His physique photographs all through the battle had taken impact to sluggish Saunders down.

Realizing Saunders was ducking down, relatively than his earlier backing off technique and circling him, Canelo went for crushing uppercuts to most impact.

With Saunders decreasing his head to get out of the way in which and Canelo coming the other means, velocity elevated the power of the punches.

It’s virtually definitely what smashed the facet of the Brit’s face so badly.

Taking a good portion of the US facet of scoring out of the equation and looking out carefully on the punch tallies reveals how Canelo selected his shot properly. You possibly can then start to see how the battle panned out scoring-wise.

Loads on the UK facet of the fence captured the spectacular work of Saunders. He acquired out and in of vary to frustrate Canelo at instances.

Ex-world title challenger Ashley Theophane is a type of who had Saunders up within the battle. He couldn’t imagine that some had been stating Canelo gained a shut-out for a way lengthy it lasted.

“Can’t imagine this. WTF is happening. I had Billy Joe Saunder profitable towards Canelo 5-3 on the time of the stoppage,” he stated.

Matchroom stablemate of each fighters, Natasha Jonas, added: “I had it 4-4. What occurred?”

Vergil Ortiz may give Saunders not more than a pair: “I don’t know, however there’s no means you would give Saunders greater than two rounds,” stated the welterweight star.

CompuBox, the revered supply of punch stats within the sport, revealed their findings post-fight.

They confirmed the Canelo picked his punches much better than Saunders, particularly these energy blows that finally did the injury.

“Canelo landed 52.7% of his energy punches and landed 39 physique photographs in his eighth spherical KO of Saunders,” they identified.

“Saunders outlanded Canelo 31-18 in rounds 5-7, however Alvarez turned it on within the eighth, touchdown 12 of 23 energy photographs.”

CANELO vs. SAUNDERS FIRST

Within the scorecard overview, the bulk had Saunders profitable the primary, and that is the place the draw concept may come unstuck.

Canelo could have thrown simply 13 photographs, however he landed seven of them. So there’s a large shout that the Mexican celebrity ought to take the primary.

Subsequently, happening what CompuBox state about rounds 5 to seven, the rating ought to have been 77-75 to the unified champ.

Taking the consensus is the one means you may land at a draw by eight. However Saunders has a substantial argument for having claimed no less than three of these eight rounds throughout his finest spell of the battle within the mid-rounds.

Phil Jay is the Editor of WBN. An Auxiliary member of the Boxing Writers Affiliation of America since 2018. And a member of the Sports activities Journalists’ Affiliation. Observe on Twitter @PhilJWBN.