[dramatic music] ♪ ♪ male announcer:the following is a presentation of hbo sports. - hello again,i'm jim lampley. coming up september 17,hbo pay-per-view will take you live to dallas, texas,for the battle between canelo ãlvarez and british 154-poundtitle holder liam smith.
ãlvarez goingback down in weight from his previous perchat middleweight, lookingfor 154-pound title. to get you ready for that,we're going to look back at canelo ãlvarez's most recentappearance in the ring. it took place may 7in las vegas against britishwelterweight star amir khan, who was moving uptwo divisions in weight, hoping that his speed and skillswould create a puzzle
for the larger,stronger ãlvarez. let's take a look back to may 7and see how that turned out and how i called the fight with roy jonesand max kellerman. - okay, gentlemen,trunks are okay on both sides. anything landing on the belt,i'll consider it low. now, saãºl, amir, we went over the rulesin the dressing room. i would caution to keepthis fight clean at all times,
protect yourself at all times,and what i say, you must obey. good luck to both of you. touch 'em up, buena suerte. kellerman: the good big man usually beats the good little man, and sometimes they make a good fight. lampley: amir khan has not been in the ring for a prize fight in 344 days-- 21 days short of a year.
will that affect him early, roy? jones: yes, that will affect him early, but because he's such a speedy guy, it won't have the affect it has on normal guys... [bell dings] because he's not looking to counterpunch, he's looking to front [unintelligible]. lampley: round 1 begins. first two punches are jabs from khan.
jones: doing a very smart thing, jim. he's not completely running from ãlvarez. lampley: hard right hand by khan following the jab, and immediately you see the hand speed advantage for amir khan. jones: and that's what he had to do, jim. he had to put something on him and let him know that he has to respect him right away, and right there, uh, uh, canelo just missed a left hook
that he could've got khan with, but he didn't throw it. now you saw it.you saw how--you saw the setup. you saw that he missed it, then he tried to throw it a second time, but it was too late. kellerman: whenever you've seen little guys move up and beat big guys, they have to make a showing in that first round. they have to land something big. ali versus foreman, roy jones versus john ruiz,
they have to let the bigger guy know that they're in there with a real fighter. lampley: and khan is trying to do that right now. jones: yeah, he did it right away with that straight right hand. lampley: got in a left hook there. jones: but the problem is now that he also has to prove that he can absorb one of canelo's punches. lampley: canelo is a measured, patient fighter.
there's part of his bread and butter as he fires the right hand to the body and digs it in. just missing with a right cross across the top. kellerman: you can see, khan'sreally got sizzling hand speed. jones: and not bad power. lampley: hard left hook by ãlvarez in there. khan took it well. jones: yeah, he took that very well. kellerman: but we see, when did he get caught with the hook?
when he led. canelo is a natural counterpuncher, wants the other guy to come to him. [cheers and applause] lampley: crowd oohs and ahhs as again, canelo lands the left-- wasn't big. khan once again flashing his hand speed in combination. jones: can't get too big for his own heart, jim. he has to keep it basic and keep it smart.
he can't go in and just attack like he's a big puncher. lampley: well, so far i think khan's trainer virgil hunter is gonna like this first round, because his fighter has shown some aggression, has demonstrated his hand speed, and the one time he got caught with a left hook, he handled it well. jones: very well. lampley: khan's movement-- critically important.
can he do it for 12 rounds? [loud tapping] jones: that's the question. kellerman: and can he move without running-- not waste energy and give canelo a head of steam? [bell dings]- time! lampley: an excellent first round. and from a tactical standpoint,maybe you make khan the winner, because he did what he wanted to do.
- tell me something.- yeah? - you see everything, huh?- everything. - breathe deep. make sure you don't stopyour feet, okay? i told you he will not be ableto deal with your speed. you just stay relaxed andkeep it at that one-two and keep itlike you're doing. okay, he telegraphseverything he does. you remember i told you,when he walks in,
if he's walking,he has to throw one punch when he's moving his feet,so don't set your feet, okay? you already got his righteye side puffed up. i don't know if you noticed it.- yeah. - keep your eyeson his hands. you know, those punchesare gonna do it. jones: here you see canelo feint and get caught by that hook. right hand-- beautiful, straight right hand
right on the face of canelo... [whistle blows] jones: something that he's definitely not used to happening to him in the first round. lampley: and here's how visible it was. 27 nieces and nephews at ringside, and there's the response of one of them being comforted... [bell dings] by the boy next to her and the girl to the right
after she almost cries from a single right hand that khan landed. jones: not used to seeing him get hit, seeing uncle ãlvarezget caught with shots like that in round one. lampley: khan trying to get away as ãlvarez reaches with a right hand to the body. kellerman: canelo's obviously stepping up the pressure here in the second round.
lampley: moving closer, trying to breathe on amir, forcing amir to move on his feet. kellerman: this is when amir's movement has to be purposeful... lampley: fights his way out of the corner with hand speed. kellerman: rather than excessive. jones: purposeful, andhe also has to make, uh, canelo keep his hands-- or his defense on high alert. kellerman: and make him pay for misses like that.
jones: yeah-- lampley: another one-two that lands for amir khan. jones: canelo's going for broke, and we see that. that's how you know that amir khan hurt him with that shot--or got his attention with that shot in the first round, because he's trying to get it back already. lampley: canelo landed a right hand to the body, missed with the left hook.
- no, no, no, no!let him up. lampley: khan peppers him with jabs and gets picked up. kellerman: i don't know if the danger for khan is just those wild swings by canelo. the danger is when khan leads, comes to canelo or throws more than two punches at a time, and it gives canelo the chance to counter. jones: he should only pot-shot canelo until about the fifth or the sixth round.
don't give him that chance to punch between the second and third punch. kellerman: terrific fight so far in terms of tactics, speed, and skill. lampley: very difficult for amir khan to stop himself from throwing three and four-punch combinations if he lands. it may not be the best idea, but his punches flow like water when he's in the groove. jones: yeah, they do.
- all right, stop, stop.step back, please. there you go. let him up, let him up,let him up. kellerman: canelo's issue in the past-- fighting fleet-footed boxers-- has been cutting off the ring. he seems to have quicker hands than feet. and here, it seems, khan is able to move where he pleases.
jones: like i said, the whole thing will be, can he move like this for 12 complete rounds? lampley: well, khan's hand speed and foot speed advantages have shown up. the question now is when or if ãlvarez's power advantage will show up as well. virtually every boxing expert who predicted the fight... [loud tapping] picked ãlvarez to win by knockout.
he seems pretty clearly to have lost the first two rounds on the scorecards.[bell dings] - time! jones: without a doubt. - [speaking spanish] - breathe. how are you feeling?good? - yeah. - take it in. come on, you got to payattention because he's so fast
and he comes inwith his feet, okay? so you gotta be carefulthere. if you're going in,you got to be fast, and after you fake, okay? don't go in slowly,because he can catch you because he's gotthe speed, okay? you got to flex your waistand attack. - take positionover the shoulder, right? if you going to your right,over his left shoulder.
if you going to your left,over his right shoulder. all right, see if you can starttapping that glove and stepping overto that angle, okay? good job. make sure you don'tstop your feet, okay? you see everythingand you relax. it's not even time[unintelligible]. jones: here we see canelo finally catch khan with a beautiful left hook.
looked down and came up and khan took that shot well and actually landed a little cross jab of his own back. lampley: andre ward, grinning at ringside, looking for another fight prior to his meeting with sergey kovalev... scheduled in the fall. kellerman: andre is the master of the virgil hunter style, kind of consummate professional boxer. lampley: and no doubt pulling for his training mate
amir khan here tonight. harold lederman agreeing with us, as you see, giving the first two rounds to the british star. that's not terribly surprising, given the speed advantage. jones: of course, he's a front-runner, which is why i said that that layoff wouldn't hurt him much, because he's not looking to make shots off of counter shots, he's looking to be ahead.
kellerman: and khan took that left hook very well from canelo. lampley: he's landed three of them now. canelo has landed three solid left hooks. he hasn't yet hurt amir khan with a punch. jones: gonna have to wear him down some before he hurts him, jim. lampley: my prediction is he hurts him after he catches him with a body shot.
in fact, if i were training canelo ãlvarez, i would tell him, "focus on the body for the first several rounds." jones: that's what he should've did, but you know, different trainers have different philosophies. lampley: good left hook by khan. kellerman: there's a sense because many mexican greats of the past have been kind of seek-and-destroy, left-hook-to-the-body kind of fighters
that canelo should be that too, but that's not really his style. when he's doing it, he's trying to kind of imitate a style that's not completely natural for him. jones: and guess what, because that's not his style, that's why he couldn't give floyd mayweather the fight that we expected him to give floyd, because to give floyd a fight, that's the fight he would've had to fight.
kellerman: he's already falling, canelo, into the kind of fight that amir khan wanted, where you pick your head up after a couple rounds, say. canelo may be down in this fight. does he have the kind of tactics to turn it around? jones: now you see canelo doing something smart, though. he's even hitting khan on the arms very hard. virgil: [unintelligible] point!point! point!point!
[cheers and applause] lampley: okay, so virgil yells, "point, point." either of you guys know what that means? jones: could be telling him about the pivot, pointing with the left foot, point to the left, point to the right, keep him out of position. don't stand there and look at him, keep pointing to the left and pointing to the right... therefore you're not allowing him to set up
an attack straight ahead on you. lampley: this was a pretty even round until khan landed that one-two right there. kellerman: looked like that right hand bothered canelo from where i'm sitting. lampley: i make khan the winner of the third round as well. [all cheering] not crying anymore in the canelo family section. without the spare.relax.
don't touch [unintelligible].don't load up, okay? you don't want to take him outwith just one punch. flex your waist,cut the exits. fake to the body,pick up top. okay?okay. - all you have to dois stay-- every time he missesthese big shots, it's wearing him down. stay focused, okay?
you up three already,okay, so you keep doingwhat you're doing, okay? as he starts slowing down,we gon' do, okay? now, remember, when you'realong the ropes, and he's do--keep the prevent out, okay, that lean hand andthat angle, okay? keep that straight jab out like you're gon' hit himand everything, okay? start to him, pound it.breathe deep.
lampley: the beautiful new t-mobile arena on the strip in las vegas. very good crowd filling the arena tonight... for canelo ãlvarez versus amir khan. i think i'm a little too enthusiastic about what khan did in the last 30 seconds of round three. overall, harold lederman sees it differently. harold, what do you have so far? lederman: okay, jim, i got it 29-28,
two rounds to one, amir khan. jim, in the third round i thought canelo cracked him down, but you know, he--he tries to move forward slowly, land hard shots. that's what we do [unintellgible] in round three to win a round. i mean, he's obviously the more powerful guy. i thought, you know, he got inside.
amir khan didn't dominate him with that left jab like he did in rounds one and two. canelo got to him, and i thought he got to him enough to win round 3. two to one, amir khan. kellerman: everyone loves the blood-and-guts, all-out action fights with two guys coming at each other, but this is of a type of a fight in boxing
that's among the most dramatic-- the smaller, faster fighter walking a tightrope against a bigger, stronger guy, so far successfully. jones: classic boxer versus classic puncher. lampley: oh, a right hand by kahn over the top. good body shot by ãlvarez in return. jones: and that was the right counterpunch for ãlvarez. kellerman: oh, that was a devastating right to the body from canelo.
lampley: left hand to the body by canelo. starting to get closer, which is giving him a better chance to land his body shots. kellerman: you see khan, unlike erislandy lara, who fought canelo very tough and close, but ultimately lost the decision. khan's movement is much more purposeful and less wasteful. he remains in position to counter, like that,
when he avoids canelo's shots. lampley: ãlvarez getting his jab going, but he missed with the right hand, and khan countered accurately in return. jones: and khan's quick hands are causing ãlvarez a little bit of a problem right now. lampley: question is, is ãlvarez's power causing khan a problem? how much is he feeling those punches to the body?
jones: that and khan-- ãlvarez is using a beautiful jab right now. lampley: yes, he's landed his jab in this round. jones: reminding us of how triple g came out and used his jabagainst the kid we saw tonight. lampley: david lemieux. jones: yes. kellerman: khan wound up in an exchange moments ago that's the danger zone for him-- little bit wild, maybe a few too many punches,
exposing him to that counter from canelo. jones: now canelo doing exactly what he needs to do. now he's consistently on the hunt, keeping the pressure on canelo... not allowing canelo to rest. lampley: doing a much better job of cutting off the ring here in the fourth than had been the case up to this point. jones: this is the way you want to see him fight.
lampley: 1/3 of the way through the 12-round distance in las vegas. - good job, way to takethat round off and still win it. breathe deep.feeling good? huh?- yeah. - you got a lot of energy, huh?- i know. - keep showing him those jabs,those feint jabs, you know,that sleight of hand, making him thinkhe's gonna get in.
you can bring your other shotsoff of it, okay? you see he's pulling awayfrom you now? - yeah, right.- why? 'cause he feelsyour thing. that's what he feels, okay? he's pumping up now.you see that? jones: here you see the classic power shot by canelo, that beautiful right, hard body shot right there. hard punch to the body because he's the more powerful guy,
but right here you see the quick guy step-- one jab, step up to counter, and one, two, three punches with that quick hand speed...[whistle blows] before canelo can get back. lampley: gennady golovkin at ringside with his trainer, abel sanchez. triple g is designated by the governing body which controls canelo ãlvarez's middleweight title belt as an absolute must, mandatory challenger after this fight.
hard left hook for ãlvarez lands upstairs. he had to reach a little bit, but he caught khan with it. kellerman: i thought khan's legs wobbled a little bit from that punch. jones: just a little bit. kellerman: so far this fight has been the best version of what it seemed it could be. and triple g, if he's hoping for a canelo fight, at a certain point i think isgonna get a little bit nervous.
lampley: well, almost nobody has conjured the question of whether amir khan with his hand speed would pose a riddle for triple g. that's just not somethingpeople have even thought about, but khan does say that he would expect to fight triple g if he wins the fight. kellerman: long way to go. jones: yeah, but khan has that heart. khan has a heart that he won't duck or dodge nobody.
lampley: any question about khan's heart should have been erased when he won an olympic silver medal at age 17, and then stuck around, rebuffing huge financial offers to become a pro, so that he could get another chance to fight mario kindelã¡n of cuba-- the man who beat him-- and win the world championship from him the following year. that's heart. jones: that's real heart.
kellerman: this seems to be a pivotal round to me, strategically. lampley: hard punch by canelo. kellerman: canelo is able to land more of his big shots that seem to affect khan, and yet khan is also not letting the play get taken away from him. they're both fighting, it seems, as well as possible at the moment. jones: but the thing for canelo right now is
he has to do what we want khan not to do. we don't want khan to throw three or four punches, because he'll get caught between him, but canelo has to throw three or four punches to land that third or fourth or fifth punch. lampley:here's the gradual undercurrent which may ultimately decide the fight. khan is throwing almost exclusively head punches, and he's outlanding canelo to the head,
but canelo is piling up body punches. coming into this round, he had landed 16 to only 3 for khan, and as those numbers grow, those are like the hidden boats from out in the rural areas. canelo is building up the body damage on khan. jones:but what canelo can't do is try and stand back and box khan like he's doing right now, because he won't beat khan like this. lampley: oh, good right to the body from canelo.
jones: khan has a redness around that right eye, may have a cut either on the nose or on the-- right up under the eye from that left hook earlier. kellerman: khan now forced to acknowledge those canelo shots. lampley: he's having more and more difficulty getting away from khan's pressure, as khan does a better job of cutting off the ring. or excuse me-- jones: canelo.
lampley: canelo does a better job of cutting off the ring. jones: that's the shot. see that third shot? those are the ones that he has to land. kellerman: and even though khan won't let the play get taken away, it does feel like there's been a kind of sea change in this fifth round. - what happened? want some water?
no, no.you're good? see, you're startingto catch him more now. just like that,let go of those punches, be faster, but not so much powerbecause you miss more. flex your waist, flex your--jab to the top and fake him to the bodyand then change it up. change them up. don't be overconfident,all right? [chimes ringing]
- are you all right? - i told youthis would happen. believe me the rest of the way,okay? he's got to try now,he knows he's behind, so he's looking for big punches. - remember to keep showing himsleight of hand. do not bring your hands in hereand punch from here. punch from down andwhere they are, okay? show him taps,step, step, pow, pow.
tap, pow, pow, okay? jones: here you see canelo land a beautiful left hook, and it looked like khan might have been hurting, but it's just the way he is. his movement's so awkward, like right there. [whistle blows] he bounces both feetup in the air at the same time, and he just does that, so i don't think he's really hurt.
and here you see a beautiful body shot right to the body by canelo. those are the shots that canelo has to land. [bell dings] lampley: right hand to the body has been canelo's best punch all night long. khan has been landing his jab and sometimes his right hand across the top, but if there's a decisive punch
in the flow of the fight so far, it would appear to be canelo's right hand to the body. canelo outlanding khan 36 to 29 in the last three rounds, and as you see, he's won all of those rounds on harold lederman's scorecard. so at least on harold's unofficial scorecard, canelo ãlvarez inching ahead in the fight. - up, up.bring 'em up, bring 'em up. lampley: the longer it goes, the more ringside experts
expect the damage to pile up in canelo's favor. larger, stronger man. amir khan fighting above the 147-pound level for the first time in his career. canelo at his preferred weight of 155. hard body shot with the right hand by canelo. kellerman: and now canelo's outboxing khan. khan's attempts are hitting air or gloves, and canelo's attempts are landing clean.
jones: and that was that thirdpunch that i was talking about. he threw a one, two, three-- right hook to the body, left hook to the head, and the left hook and the right body shot landed. lampley: it's just been a simple matter of closing the distance-- getting closer, cutting off the ring, creating less and less physical space between himself and khan.
and what a display of hand speed by khan there. jones: exactly, it was because canelo backs out, now it gives him time. tries to box like he did, again, with floyd mayweather, and you can't box a boxer. you have to fight him. kellerman: that's much harder to do against floyd mayweather than anybody else. jones: i'm not saying that, i'm just saying
you should've learned that from floyd-- from the floyd fight, and you definitely are supposed to imply--impose the will on a guy like this. kellerman: i think slowly he is. it seems that over the last several rounds, canelo's having his way increasingly. lampley: body shots, body shots. and now the jab upstairs landing with frequency. kellerman: it's not just that the body shots score points.
it's money in the bank,and there's a cumulative effect that i think we're starting to see it. lampley: you sap a man's confidence with body shots, as well as taking away his energy, and everybody... jones: oh! lampley: tremendous! right hand shot by canelo! [crowd cheering] and kenny bayless is stopping the fight. and canelo ãlvarez is the first one there.
and, oh, ãlvarez may have knocked khan cold with that shot. jones: he did. kellerman: the danger from a shot like that is not only the punch on the chin that short-circuited khan's legs, it's the fact that the back of his head smacks off the canvas,which is the cause for concern. lampley: a spectacular knockout.
a triple g kind of a knockout. a knockout that's gonna want-- make the boxing world want to see canelo ãlvarez do that against golovkin. kellerman: and not to disregard the condition of amir khan at this moment, because there's some cause for concern, but that was a really good fight... jones: very good fight.
kellerman: right up until the end. lampley: that was a fight in which both fighters showed their skills, their command, their commitment to the sport, their conditioning, their understanding of what to do, and it ended the way almost everybody thought it would end, with a power shot by canelo ãlvarez. khan is awake.
ãlvarez did his job. let's take another look at how it happened, roy. jones: yeah, you see khan just setting there. threw that jab, not ready, he gave him a feint, khan was not ready for the feint, and the overhand right caught him, because he had held him with the feints earlier. when you hold a guy, you feint him, he doesn't move, next time you feint him, you go at him with the kitchen sink.
right here, feint the jab. he didn't want to hit the jab, he's just feinting him to get close enough and closethe door with the kitchen sink, and that's how you put a guy...out. lampley: very reminiscent of the feint and right hand combination that knocked out james kirkland one year ago. jones: exactly, same exact shot, just against a right-hander
instead of a left-hander this time. lampley: canelo knew that he had wrecked khan with that shot, and he was immediately concerned about the condition of his opponent. kenny bayless will wave it off. now watch canelo come into the picture. on his knees. great shot. and now let's take a look at the ãlvarez family reaction
at ringside. no more of that consternation that you saw in round 1. ecstasy... as the knockout materializes before their eyes. virgil hunter with his fighter. [unintelligible chatter] let's go to ring announcer joe martinez with the particulars on the knockout. martinez: ladies and gentlemen, the end comes officially
2:37, round number 6. your winner by ko victory and still... wbc "ring" magazine lineal middleweight champion of the world, saãºl canelo-o-o ã-a-alvarez! lampley: final compubox numbers-- ãlvarez lands 16 more total punches, throws 4 more, landsat a higher connect percentage.
a lot of that was because he was landing to the body. amir khan never even really tried. [man yells unintelligibly] lampley: power shots, and there's only one of the 42 that really mattered. he lands 14 more, he throws 5 more, he lands at a 51% connect percentage. how many times have we told you if a guy lands 50% of his power shots,
he's probably going to win the fight. [rock music playing] punch shown-- punch zone will show you where the punches landed, and you can see that amir khan landed a total of five body shots, and canelo landed his right hand to amir's left side 25 times in the fight. he wore him down, he set him up, he used the brilliant feint with the left hand
to freeze him, and he knocked him out with a right hand shot. max kellerman stands by with the middleweight champion of the world. - congratulations, canelo,that was a terrific fight and a vicious knockout. - let's startat the beginning. did he surprise youwith his speed early? - like i saidfrom the beginning,
you know, he's a fast fighter,he's very fast, and i knew that thingswere gonna be complicated at the beginning,but i knew that time would be-- would come to my favor,and obviously you saw that. - time seemed to cometo your favor not only because you werebigger and stronger, but also becauseof your boxing skills. as the fight wore on,you seemed to be able to make him miss andcounter more effectively.
can you talk about the skillsthat you showed in this fight? - you know--- [speaking spanish] - you know, many peoplefocus on my power and talk about my power,but i've got many more qualities in the ring,and people see that, and that's what happenedin the ring. - i like to surprise everyone. - well,speaking of that, you seem much more comfortablewith a fighter who comes at you
than a fighter who runs away. why is that? - you know, a boxer--someone that comes in to box obviously gives youmore trouble, obviously, but you know, someone that comesto attack and comes to press you gives you the opportunityto have a very, very nice fight, but obviously it's difficultwith someone who boxes. - there's a guy ringsidewatching this fight tonight who comes to attack.
triple g. ãlvarez: [speaking spanish] man: i invited him to come to the ring. kellerman: you invitedhim to the ring? why? [speaking spanish] - i invited him into the ring,and like we say in mexico, we don't fuck around. we don't--we don't fightfor rings and stuff like that.
i don't fear anyone. - we don't come to playin this sport. i fear no onein this sport. - does that mean that you willfight triple g later this year? - as i saidin the last fight, right nowi'll put on the gloves again. - gracias.[speaking spanish] viva mexico! - thank you, canelo.congratulations.
lampley: let's go back to max with amir khan. - amir, right up to the pointthat you got hit on the chin with that right hand,that was a terrific performance. what were you thinkingas that fight wore on? - first of all,i just want to say a big thank you to everyone,and you know, i mean, i'm on of them fighters,you know, i'll step in the ringwith whoever, and i thinkit's time now
where canelo needs to step inwith triple g, because everyone's been waitingfor that fight, so i showed my ballsby getting in the ring and getting into the ringwith a big guy, but look, i mean,this is boxing. i want to go out thereas a champion. i was unfortunately--i didn't make it to the end, but i tried my best, and i justwant to say a big thank you to everyonewho turned up here,
and i want to say thank youfor the support. - given how wellyou fought tonight against a much bigger,naturally-- a naturally bigger guy,younger guy, you'd mentioned to usin the past that you needthat kind of challenge to bring outthe best in you. are you gonna godown in weight now? are we gonna see this amir khanat your natural weight?
- you know, i mean, i'm naturallya 147-pound fighter, and this challenge came andit was very hard to turn down. i want to be the best,i want to fight the best, so that's the reason i tookthis fight, but look, i'll probably begoing down. i mean, my natural weightis 147, i'll be probably goingdown to that. - and--right here.
he took the risk.he gave up everything. no concessions. now it's time for himto take the risk and quit hidingbehind little stuff, okay? amir took the risk. - why is it importantfor you guys that canelo takes that risk against triple g? it seems personal. - because he set the tone.amir set the tone.
fighters should fighteach other. we're setting the tone. he took the risk,he didn't. he got to quit hidingbehind the flag and fight triple g. - we all hope to seethat fight happen. amir, it's always a pleasureto watch you fight. jim? lampley: roy jones,it was a brilliant fight
for as long as it lasted. khan seemed to get offto a terrific start. how did canelo reel him inand set up the knockout? - well, canelo wasbeing canelo. he's a very patientcounterpuncher. he knew that khan was gonnastart early. khan being the front-runner,he started early, had his jab working, was doinggood with punches to the head, but he threw no body shots.
why?because he's a front-runner. front-runners don't expectto throw body shots or worry about tiringa guy out. their job is to get the leadand hold onto it. well, canelo, knowing that,constantly attacked khan, hit his body,hit him with 25 shots on that left sideto the body. all of those shotspredominantly going to set up that overhand rightto the head,
so what happens? by the time khan starts to tire and starts to lookfor that right hook to the body, canelo changes it. bam, over the top to the head,down he goes. - a vintage canelo performance,a thrilling knockout win. he holds on to the linealmiddleweight championship. gennady golovkinwas at ringside. max, what happens next?
- i don't see a wayaround the triple g fight at this point. there's a momentum that'staken on a life of its own. i've never seena vanquished opponent-- in this case amir khan--and his trainer call out the guywho just beat them to fight another guyin the division. i've never evenheard of it, but that's how the boxing worldis feeling about this,
and when you look at the dnaof the canelo camp-- oscar de la hoya,he didn't duck. when he got controlof his own career, he fought everyone. bernard hopkins,he never ducked anyone, and canelo is notthe ducking type. he was emotional about the ideathat he's ducking triple g in the ring,right after the fight. i think this fight can happenthis year, and that's the fight
the whole sports worldat this point wants to see. - it was a thrilling night.thanks very much, max. we'll see if there arefurther thrills in the future. thank you for being with us.