By Tom Drury: Last night I witnessed along with the rest of the world a nothing less than scintillating performance by boxing’s pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. This was the fight that has finally silenced Mayweather’s critics and doubters with a on-esided 12 round majority decision win over WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-1-1, 30 KO’s). When this fight was announced I was one of the first to say this fight was “easy work” for Mayweather. Fans, critics, trainers and fighters all believed this was Mayweather’s biggest challenge. How wrong can you be?
As the build up to this fight gathered pace I actually started to believe the hype that Alvarez could at least give Mayweather competition. However, by the end of round 2 it was clear the young pretender was way out of his depth and in deep water as is the case with all Mayweather opponents. By round 4-5 I was starting to feel sorry for Alvarez, the hopes and expectation of a nation on his shoulders and he was been quite frankly exposed and embarrassed by the genius of Mayweather.