By Dan Ambrose: If you want to pinpoint the real reason for WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout’s 12 round decision loss to WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez last night you only have to point to the World Boxing Council’s decision to have open scoring used for their fight at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
With one judge giving Canelo most of the rounds in the 4 rounds and the other two having Canelo ahead in that stage of the fight as well as in the 8th, it forced Trout to fight a much more risky fight that made him desperate. You’ve got a judge scoring the 80-71 after eight rounds, which is incredibly sad, and the other two giving Canelo a lead.