Canelo Alvarez vs Daniel Jacobs

Alvarez comes in at 170 pounds this morning and Jacobs ignores the 10 pound hydration clause and comes in at almost 174 pounds. At $250,000 penalty per pound, that’s a cool $1 million penalty fee. Rumor has it that Matchroom Boxing’s Eddie Hearn is taking care of the fee as Hearn not only believes in Jacobs, but has a huge investment in Jacobs.

Main Event Time: Here We Go!!!

Jacobs comes out in a beautiful Green/black and multi-colored rope looking very focused, determined and ready for battle.

Alvarez comes out to tradition Mexican music wearing a beautiful white with gold embroidered poncho.

Canelo is wearing beautiful white trunks with gold trim and green leather gloves. Jacobs wearing beautiful black trunks with red and green trim, along with black gloves.

Round 1.

Canelo coming out a bit aggressive throwing a left hook that missed. Canelo lands a good right to the body. Good feel

Out round for Jacobs as he lets his hands go a bit in the last minute of the round.

Round 2.

Wow- excellent round for both fighters. Both fighters are executing their game plan, both guys are landing and boxing well. And both fighters are throwing heavy shots with mean intentions. This is very high level quality boxing.

Round 3.

Another excellent round for both fighters. Jacobs smothering his punches a bit in the first half of the round. In the second half of the round I thought Jacobs did some excellent work and also is doing a terrific job controlling the distance. Jacobs landed better in that round.

Round 4.

Another exciting round as Canelo seems to be very comfortable against the taller Jacobs. Canelo really setting the tone, Canelo’s speed is at another level right now. It will be interesting to see how much Canelo slows down as the fight goes on.

Round 5.

Canelo being aggressive and Jacobs is still trying to figure out how to catch Canelo. Both guys open up a bit towards the end of the round.

Round 6.

A Mirror image of the previous rounds. Canelo coming forward and both guys boxing well. Canelo simply the Busier fighter. As I mentioned in the keys to the fight, “Jacobs has to let his hands go”.

Round 7.

Canelo does some good work early. Jacobs seems a bit scared of Canelo’s power and is really keeping a lot of distance. Jacobs Is having a hard time landing his shots because of the distance he’s keeping.

Round 8.

Wow – Best round of the fight so far as Jacobs finally opens up and starts taking chances. Jacobs eating a lot of leather but is willing to take two or three shots to possibly land his own haymaker.

Round 9.

Jacobs Went back to his old ways of moving to much and not being active the first two minutes. In the final minute, Jacobs lands the best Punches of the fight and steals the round from Canelo.

Round 10.

Jacobs taking it to Canelo and wins the round by landing some big shots. It might be a little to late as Canelo May have built to big of a lead for Jacobs to catch up.

Round 11.

Jacobs missing on his opportunity to really control the fight by not being busy enough. Very close round as Jacobs might have edged it out.

Round 12.

Excellent round to show how closely matched these two fighters are.

And we go to the judges:

Winner By UD: Canelo Alvarez 

Other Results from Vegas:

Vergil Ortiz Jr. vs. Mauricio Herrera

WELTERWEIGHTS – 10 ROUNDS

Vergil Ortiz Jr. 12-0 (12KOs) vs. Mauricio Herrera 24-8 (7 KOs)

The almost 39 year old Mauricio Herrera looking to make one last stand as he fights young up and comer 21 year old Vergil Ortiz. This is only Herrera’s second fight in 19 months. Herrera lost his last fight to Sadam Ali in December 2018.

Vergil Ortiz Jr. is young and doesn’t have the experience of Herrera, but he is naturally the much bigger man. If this isn’t a set-up I don’t know what is.

Herrera was holding his own until the closing seconds of the 2nd round. Ortiz land a huge right hand on the button and knocks Herrera Down.

Round 3. Ortiz comes forward and really tags Herrera With a vicious right hand punch that knocks Herrera down and stops  the fight.

Young knockout artist Vergil Ortiz Jr. improves to 13-0 with 13 Knockouts.

Winner Vergil Ortiz Jr.

Joseph Diaz Jr. vs. Freddy Fonseca

VACANT WBA GOLD SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT TITLE – 12 ROUNDS

Joseph Diaz Jr. 28-1 (14 KOs) vs. Freddy Fonseca 26-2-1 (17 KOs)

After two rounds, Jo Jo Diaz looking good, letting his hands ago and looking good at 130 pounds.

Big 6th round for Diaz, doing heavy damage and knocking Fonseca down. Diaz lands a huge left hook at the bell. This fight should be over very soon as Diaz is simply dominating this fight.

Fonseca’s corner throws in the towel in the middle of the 7th round.

Winner Joseph Jo Jo Diaz Jr.

Lamont Roach Jr. vs Jonathan Oquendo

For the WBO INTERNATIONAL & NABO SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT TITLES – 10 ROUNDS

Lamont Roach Jr. 18-0-1 (7 KOs) vs. Jonathan Oquendo 30-5 (19 KOs)

Roach wins a unanimous decision beating a game Oquendo. Roach improves to 19-0 and now carries two WBO titles.

Winner: Lamont Roach Jr.

Sadam Ali vs Anthony Young (Welterweights)

Two very good evenly matched welters go toe-to-toe in the ring. Underdog Young ate some leather in the first half of the third round and then started unloading his own shots. Ali took a bunch of shots as referee Robert Byrd asked Ali to get busy. Young landed a right hook to the body and then a big left to the head making referee Byrd stop the fight. Young was a 13-1 underdog and Ali seems to have lost a few steps.

Winner: Anthony Juice Young

John Ryder vs Bilal Akkawy

For WBA Super Middleweight Championship:

Ryder takes care of business by handing a big right hook in the third round knocking Akkawy down. Ryder remains relentless knocking Akkawy down a second time and almost a third before referee Jay Nady stopped the bout in the 3rd round.

Winner: John Ryder

Photo courtesy of Tom Hogan – Hoganphotos/Golden Boy Promotions

Photo courtesy of Ed Mulholland – DAZN/ Matchroom Boxing