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By benjijr: When the loser Austin Trout accepts defeat the controversy doesn’t last. WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez won last night, period! His win makes for bigger and better fights, so let’s sit back and enjoy the future of boxing! Canelo vs. Miguel Cotto anyone?

For those of you thinking that Zou Shiming doesn’t have what it takes, think again and stop underestimating the matchmaking at Top Rank. Remember what we thought of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr? Well, now he is a star and almost knocked out the middleweight champion of the world. can you imagine a Wilfredo Gomez in our times under the matchmaking of Top Rank, he could have been 100- no losses and 90 KO’s.

By sslg99: First of all, I would like to congratulate both Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1., 30 KO’s) and Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s) for putting on a great fight last night at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas. They both fought better than they ever had before and they both gave their opponent a lot of trouble. The fight could have gone either way. Personally I had it 114-113 for Austin Trout, But I would have completely understood a draw. I would even be fine with a 1-2 point lead for Alvarez. If the outcome of the fight was a draw I think both fighters would get more credit and there would be a larger clause for Alvarez – Trout 2, which is a fight I would love to see.

A close decision was not the case, the scoring was terrible. 118-109 (the outcome that the WBA judge had) was disgraceful. Bad judging is the reason why many casual boxing fans are straying from the sweet science and heading off to watch MMA.

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.

By Gerardo Granados: The young lion king WBC – WBA – Ring Magazine light middleweight champion Saul Canelo Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) clearly defeated WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s) but there seems to be controversy with the fight scoring once again. Were the rounds so competitive to have a hard time scoring them? Was the fight so close? Was the personal boxing taste a factor? Or is it that there are people having a hard time accepting that the kid is for real?

Austin Trout recognized he had been defeated by a better opponent, he did not make any excuses and said he was surprised by Canelo´s game plan and ability to adjust. Canelo did slow down the pace on the second half of the fight but he made Trout miss too many shots and counter him with accurate power punches that clearly hurt Austin.

By Mohammed Abulkhair: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez improved his record tonight to (42-0-1-31KO’S) by putting a masterful performance against the slick southpaw Austin “No Doubt” Trout. Canelo even though at the ripe age of 22 showed spectacular boxing skill and ring generalship. Many writers and critics believed that Canelo was a little over his head in taking this fight.

Some argued that Canelo does not have the defense or the footwork to compete with Trout. Canelo has definitely silenced his critics as he showed spectacular defense bobbing and weaving and at times making Trout look like an amateur missing with many jabs.

(Photo credit: Stephanie Trapp/SHOWTIME) By Donald Crisp: The mudslingers are abound.  Perhaps Dan Ambrose and the usual suspects were disappointed to learn that they are neither prophets nor knowledgeable when it comes to boxing analysis.  They predicted a lopsided Austin Trout victory. over WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, and of course, they were wrong.  But that’s not the point.  To make the point about them would amount to aggrandizing their acuteness., but in all fairness to the naysayers, claims that the judge’s scorecards were exaggerated are reasonable.  The fight was indeed closer than the official scorecards let on.  But the outcome was correct and we need not go further than the best judge of the match, Austin Trout, to validate that result.

We can spend all the time we want bickering about the fight and how it should have been scored.  We can argue about what the division of rounds should have legitimately looked like.  But the true and only judge of the fight is the other person that was in the ring:  Austin Trout.  His words matter most.  His words carry the most authority.