Dimitri Bivol retained his WBA light heavyweight title with a clear decision victory over boxing superstar Canelo Alvarez. Today we will discuss about Canelo vs Bivol: Outcome| Weight class| Weight| Record.
Canelo vs Bivol: Outcome| Weight class| Weight| Record
Canelo Alvarez vs Dimitri Bivol, also known as Legacy Is Earn, was a professional boxing match between the 4-division world champion, Canelo Alvarez, and the defending WBA (Super) Light Heavyweight Champion, Dimitri Bivol. The fight took place on May 7, 2022.
| Date | May 7, 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | T-Mobile Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title(s) on the line | WBA (Super) light heavyweight title | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Outcome
Canelo Alvarez’s lofty ambition finally caught up with him on Saturday as the pound-for-pound king faces his match in the form of unbeaten WBA Light Heavyweight Champion Dimitri Bivole.
lvarez (57-2-2, 39 KO), a four-division champion, landed 12 rounds overall in a career-low 84 punches, as Bivol (20-0, 11 KO) relied on his defense and accurate punching. . Inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas via unanimous decision. All three judges scored 115–113 for Bivol, which was anything but competitive, but CBS Sports scored it 119–109 in Bivol’s favor.
“I’m sorry that I ruined your plans [for a fight against a fall trilogy] Gennady Golovkin, maybe,” said Bivol. “Congratulations [Alvarez], he’s a great champion and I respect him. But if you don’t believe in yourself, what do you do? You won’t achieve anything. I believe and my team believes.”
Six months after becoming the first undisputed super middleweight champion of the four-belt era, Alvarez pulled back up to 175 pounds for the first time since claiming the WBC title via knockout from Sergei Kovalev in 2019. But during the same week he teased a potential future move to heavyweight, Alvarez was unable to break the technical prowess of Bivol, a former Russian amateur star, whose strength is silencing the offense of his opponents.
Weight class
In his third fight at 175 pounds, super middleweight undisputed champion Canelo has moved up a weight class to take on light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol for his WBA world title. The stakes are high in this.
Weight
Dmitry Bivol first makes his way to the stage and screams loudly. Canelo makes his way to the stage to an emphatic response.
The Bivole tips the scales first and weighs 174.6 pounds.
The Canelo is next and comes in at 174.4 pounds.
Record
Bivole comes into this fight with a record of 19 wins, 11 of them by knockout, he doesn’t know what to lose and his knockout average is 57 percent. Canelo holds a service record of 57 wins, 39 knockouts, one loss and two draws, with a chloroform percentage of 65.
