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Canelo v Khan : Mexican retains world title against Briton ...

 


He tapped Saul Canelo "Alvarez from UK Amir Khan in the sixth round in Las Vegas to retain his WBC average.

Until the end, and brutal, and it was Khan used his superior speed and movement to frustrate the champion of this seems to be ahead on points.

However, when Khan lost his concentration for a split second champion knocked him cold with a huge right hand.

After that, Alvarez said he wanted a unification bout with Gennady Golovkin.
Khan dominated to the devastating knockout

Jumped Khan (29 years), weight division to challenge Alvarez was trying to become a world champion in a third former light middle weight, to win the World Welterweight.

And he turned in a dismal in catchweight of 155lb, five pounds below the normal average limit. However, Alvarez came to the ring in about 175lb and was much more than his opponent.

It was the first battle in the 20,000 capacity T-Mobile Arena, which has been vociferously pro-Alvarez on the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo.

But taunts and insults showered Khan did nothing to obscure his attention.

Khan is likely to win in the first round courtesy of a warning from a few gifts and one through the right to aim well, but Alvarez did land a left hook flashing.

Khan said many times champion look clumsy in the second round, landing with such bands as double-edged sword before running out of range. When Alvarez landed left hook abrupt, Han stood up to him and fired back.

It was more of the same in the third, with 0.25 Alvarez, stalking their prey, and finds himself in a confusing Han blinding hand speed and volume of punches.

At this stage to predict what will Khan to accelerate the movement of the winning forces seem to have reached, while it was certainly not justified those critics who believe that inaction year to blunt its edge.

Khan unleashed a flashy combinations in the fourth Although no one beats it seems detrimental to Alvarez, English was ahead on points, one third of the way through the competition.

There were signs in the fifth Alvarez began to find his range in the early sixth century, it was in contact with the connection between the left and right mischievous.

When Han shortly after he left his left arm dangling, Alvarez exploded right hand on his chin to make him unconscious before hitting the canvas. Khan was counted out with 23 seconds left in the round.

No regrets by Khan

Khan took some time to recover, but finally came to its feet minutes later.

"I wanted to go there as a hero, but unfortunately, I did not make it to the end." "In accordance with this task, and it was hard to refuse."

Alvarez improved to 47 wins (33 by KO) and one draw and one defeat - a large American Floyd Mayweather in 2013, Khan now has four defeats out of 35 matches, including three by knockout.

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