
CompuBox Stats: Decarie Lands 66% of Power on Perez
Welterweight contender Antonin Decarie landed a whopping 85% of his power shots on previously undefeated Alex Perez in round six and 66% for the fight.

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Welterweight contender Antonin Decarie landed a whopping 85% of his power shots on previously undefeated Alex Perez in round six and 66% for the fight.

Alex Perez the much busier fighter. Antonin Decarie the more accurate. Decarie threw well below the weight class average for total punches.

Vic Darchinyan has one advantage - experience, having fought twelve world champions - all at 118-pounds or below. Del Valle's fought at 122 or higher his entire career. Del Valle's busier too - throwing 25 more punches per round and landing twice as many as Darchinyan. This should be a power punch festival, as 33 of their combined 39 landed punhces per round were power shots.

Gabriel Rosado had nearly a 2-1 edge in power shots landed. Charles Whittaker landed a higher percentage of power shots, but didn't throw enough.

Entertaining fight. Antwone Smith gets the decision in Ronald Cruz's hometown. They combined to landed 67 of 171 total punches in round ten.

It was a power punch festival Saturday night at the MGM in Las Vegas. ShoStats reveal that sluggers Canelo Alvarez, Marcos Maidana and Leo Santa Cruz combined to land 59% of their power punches- 27% higher than the overall CompuBox average. Alvarez landed 64% of his power shots in his fifth round KO win over Josesito Lopez. That’s 27% higher than the 154-lb weight class avg. Alvarez landed 70% in round one and 72% in round five. Lopez landed 52% of his power shots (15 of 29) in round two.

COMPUBOX'S INSIDE THE NUMBERS - SERGIO MARTINEZ W 12 JULIO CESAR CHAVEZ JR. • The 37-yr. old Martinez stepped up his offensive game vs. Chavez, throwing a career high (908) total punches and landing a career high 322. That's an avg. of 76 thrown, 27 landed per round. Martinez avg'd 57 thrown, 21 landed per round in his previous three fights. The middleweight avg. is 57 thrown/18 landed.

It was all Sergio Martinez through eleven rounds, as he outlanded Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. nearly 3-1. Junior rallied in the twelfth dropping Sergio and outlanding him 37-8 in power shots- too little, too late.

Saul "Canelo" Alvarez landed a whopping 64% of his power shots vs. the game and outsized Josesito Lopez, who landed 40%. Canelo closed the show by landing 36 of 50 power shots (72%).

Roman Martinez was a busier fighter than Miguel Beltran Jr. in a busy, hard-fought fight.