By Rishad Marquardt: In the build up to the Khan-Canelo fight, many former and present boxers were eager to be clear about one thing when asked their opinion; just how brave they believed Amir Khan was being by taking on the Mexican superstar, Canelo Alvarez, in the biggest fight of the year.
Moving up in weight in boxing is a demanding and daunting challenge for any boxer. Everyone has a ‘natural weight’ and straying away from ones natural division can cause a tremendous amount of tension and stress on the body. This can be even more significant when facing an opponent fighting in their optimum weight class, not to mention the (albeit overestimated) but famed punching prowess possessed by Canelo.
In hindsight, Canelo’s brutal strength had laid down a condition for the already famously glass-chinned Khan – that should he at any point in the fight get hit by even a moderately powerful punch, Khan would collapse to the canvas and would not have enough in him to beat gravity and thus beat the count.
By Allan Fox: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez says Golovkin will be knocking WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez out by the eighth round if their fight takes place this year. 
By Dan Ambrose: Teddy Atlas of ESPN wasn’t happy to learn last night that WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) was ahead on two of the three judges’ scorecards heading into the 6th round in his fight against Amir Khan (31-4, 19 KOs) at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. 
By Jeff Aranow: Amir Khan (31-4, 19 KOs) took a risk in fighting the much larger middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) last night and the risk failed to pan out for the 29-year-old British fighter. 
By Patrick McHugh: Amir Khan’s trainer Virgil Hunter found himself in a weird situation last night in challenging WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) to stop hiding from his mandatory challenger Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) and take the dangerous fight. 
By Patrick McHugh: WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) did what everyone expected him to on Saturday night in stopping Amir Khan (31-4, 19 KOs) in the 6th round to retain his WBC middleweight title at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. 
By Jeff Aranow: Amir Khan has nothing to be ashamed of tonight despite him losing to WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez by a 6th round knockout. Khan was knocked out badly in the 6th when Canelo finally was able to catch him with a big right hand to the head. 
By Dan Ambrose: WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s brutal 6th round knockout win over Amir Khan (31-4, 19 KOs) tonight appears to have given Canelo and his promoter Oscar De La Hoya a surge of confidence all of a sudden, because both of them were showing signs of courage after the fight tonight. 
By Dan Ambrose: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez says he saw yesterday’s weigh-in for the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Amir Khan fight, and he thinks Canelo looked really thin at the 155lb catch-weight that Team Canelo insisted on for the fight. Sanchez thinks Canelo is literally killing himself to make 155lbs so that he can avoid fighting Golovkin, because he has no intention of draining down to fight the Mexican fighter at a catch-weight later this year.