(Photo Credit:Ed Mulholland/Golden Boy/Golden Boy via Getty Images) By Robert Earle Stanton, 2015 Allen Hoey Award winner and author of “Selling the Pain.” This past Saturday Night if any casual fans tuned in, or disgruntled casual fans tuned in to see the replay of Mayweather vs Pacquiao they got their “Money’s Worth” by watching Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, now 45-1-1 with 32 knockouts take out James Kirkland, now 32-2 with 28 knockouts in a bout that was Hagler/Hearns-esque in style.
Knockout artist Kirkland rushed Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and backed him in a corner from the opening bell to get knocked down to somehow survive the first round and first half of the second where he was drilled with clean rights and hooks by “Canelo” to get dropped in the third round by an uppercut to get up and have the referee say, “Show me something” before “Canelo” hit him with a right hand that twisted his body around and laid him out flat.
(Photo Credit:Ed Mulholland/Golden Boy/Golden Boy via Getty Images) By Dan Ambrose: Last night, Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya shutdown any talk of a fight between his fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) and WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (32-0, 29 KOs) by saying that he prefers that fans wait two years before he makes that fight.