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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. took a beating on Saturday night, when he lost a twelve round unanimous decision to Mexican rival Saul "Canelo" Alvarez.
Canelo, who raised his record to 49-1 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, pounded Chavez Jr. with big power shots, round after round, until the final bell of the twelfth round.
All three judges were in agreement, handing Canelo every single round of the fight - with identical scorecards of 120-108.
Despite all of the punches that were showering down on Chavez Jr., he never appeared to be in any serious danger of going down or getting stopped. He took countless shots to the head and body - the same type shots that stopped many of Canelo's past opponents. Chavez Jr. was bleeding from his nose and had two swollen eyes when the fight was over.
Chavez Jr. was the biggest opponent of Canelo's career. The contest took place at a catch-weight of 164.5-pounds. Canelo, who holds the WBO junior middleweight title, came up in weight from 154-pounds. And Chavez Jr. squeezed down from 168-pounds, coming in at 164 at Friday's weigh-in.
According to Chavez Jr., he was never hurt during the contest. Chavez Jr. says he felt the thudding force of Canelo's shots, but they were never strong enough to really hurt him.
"He didn’t hurt me. He’s not a big natural puncher. I felt his punch but not to hurt me. I just want to tell the people of Sinoloa I apologize. Obviously they wanted a war, I couldn’t give it to them tonight. My body just wasn’t able to," Chavez Jr. said.
Canelo will not move forward with the toughest fight of his pro career, when he finally enters the middleweight division - at the full weight class limit of 160-pounds - by facing IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC world champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) on September 16th.
