Fight Results of Canelo Alvarez vs. Billy Joe Saunders 

For the entirety of the discussion about whether Billy Joe Saunders could be the Kryptonite for Canelo Alvarez's expectation of making one stride nearer to turning into the undisputed super middleweight champion, Saturday's unification battle was over right when it began to warm up. 

After a mid-battle change saw the precarious Saunders (30-1, 14 KOs) work his way back into the battle, Alvarez (56-1-2, 38 KOs) polished him off with a correct uppercut in Round 8 that expand and seemed to harm the correct eye of Saunders. The local of Great Britain told his corner he was unable to see out of the eye and the battle was halted by official Mark Calo-Oy before the beginning of Round 9. 

Alvarez, the Mexican hotshot who bound together Saunders' WBO title with his WBA and WBC belts, praised the unexpected TKO before a revering horde of 73,126 inside AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, as the battle set another worldwide indoor record for boxing participation. 

"I said the battle planned to create before the seventh or eighth round and that is the thing that occurred," Alvarez said. "However, it wasn't pretty much as troublesome as I expected and that demonstrates that my planning has improved step by step." 

The 30-year-old Alvarez, the game's dominant pound-for-pound lord, was driving on each of the three scorecards at the hour of the stoppage by scores of 78-74 (twice) and 77-75. He additionally outlanded the 31-year-old Saunders by an edge of 73 to 60, per CompuBox, including landing 53% of his force shots. 

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However, Saunders, surprisingly, had his minutes as the southpaw shook off a lethargic beginning when Alvarez utilized his speed and body assault to smother his offense by making a reasonable change in Round 5. In addition to the fact that Saunders began standing directly before Alvarez via landing punches from off-kilter points, his increment in strut appeared to assist his protection with keeping Alvarez from landing clean. 

Saunders started to build up the hit and appeared to control the following three rounds until Alvarez ventured up his yield drastically in Round 8 and the force of his shots sent Saunders into a more careful stance. 

"Not in the slightest degree, [I was never hurt]. The battle, I was winning round by round," Alvarez said. "I realized my battle would create after the 6th round yet I began changing pretty fast. I realized that this would be the last round." 

Alvarez, who surrendered to Saunders' interest for a bigger ring during battle week in the midst of dangers he would stop, didn't appear to be amazed by Saunders' choice to remain on his stool after Round 8. Alvarez had recently called him out openly for coming up with various reasons paving the way to the battle. 

"I knew it. Actually, I knew it," Alvarez said. "I think I broke his cheek and I realized he wasn't going to come out. I got to the corner and told [trainer] Eddy [Reynoso] he wasn't coming out on the grounds that I broke his cheek and that was it." 

Somewhere else on the card, Elwin Soto held his WBO junior flyweight title with a 10th round TKO triumph over Katsunari Takayama. The actual success was not all that astonishing given Soto was a huge top pick over the Japanese contender who emerged from retirement to confront him. Yet, the stun came when the two were trading great late in the battle and official Laurence Cole stepped in and waved it off. Takayama was never dropped or apparently severely hurt in the battle, flaunting his moves after the stoppages for the cameras. Soto moves to 19-1 in his vocation with 13 TKOs. 

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Battle card, results 

Canelo Alvarez (c) def. Billy Joe Saunders by means of eighth-round TKO (corner stoppage) 

Elwin Soto (c) def. Katsunari Takayama through 10th round TKO (arbitrator stoppage) 

Souleymane Cissokho def. Kieron Conway through split choice (92-97, 96-93, 95-94) 

Straightforward Sanchez def. Nagy Aguilera through specialized choice (60-54, 60-54, 60-54)