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Canelo Alvarez ended a close fight by landing a fight high 19 power shots in round 11. Canelo landed 48% of his power shots while averaging just 31 punches thrown per round. Sergey Kolavev threw a career high 577 jabs (52 per round), but landed just 11%.
Shakur Stevenson put on a masterful defensive performance Saturday night vs. Joet Gonzalez, winning a vacant version of the Featherweight title in the process. Stevenson's performance immediately brought out comparisons to Floyd Mayweather. CompuBox compared the stats from Stevenson's 9th thru 13th fights (his last 5) to those of Floyd Mayweather's from his 9th thru 13th fights.
Artur Beterbiev landed harder punches all night and eventually wore down Oleksandr Gvozdyk. Beterbiev had a 49-8 edge in power landed in last 2 rounds and landed 40% of his power shots in the fight. Gvozdyk threw 260 jabs, but landed less than 10%.
Wintrust Arena, Chicago - All Oleksandr Usyk as he landed 70% of his power punches (88/123) in his heavyweight debut and held veteran Chazz Witherspoon to just 21 total punches landed.
Golovkin, Derevyanchenko CompuBox Punch Stats - For the vacant IBF, IBO middleweight titles, Gennadiy Golovkin (40-1-1, 35 KOs) was tested tough and some felt he was on his way to a loss, but he pulled out a close twelve round unanimous decision over Sergiy Derevyanchenko (13-2, 10 KOs). The scores were 114-113, 115-112, 115-112.
Porter vs. Spence CompuBox By The Numbers - Staples Center, Los Angeles, California - In a high stakes unification for the WBC, IBF welterweight titles, Errol Spence (26-0, 21 KOs) had to fight through fire to win a twelve round split decision over Shawn Porter (30-3-1, 17 KOs). The scores were 116-111 for Spence, 115-112 for Porter, and 116-111 for Spence.
Staples Center, Los Angeles, California - In a fight that lived up to the billing, Errol Spence absorbed the most punches of his career (172) but responded by landing 221 on Shawn Porter and scoring the fight's only knockdown in the 11th.
Alfredo Angulo rallied in second half of the fight, outlanding (and staggering several times) the stationary Peter Quillin 60-40 in power shots over the last four rounds. Angulo landed 154 of 531 power punches to 152 fo 350 for Quillin. Quillin landed an average of 14 jabs per round, but not enough to hold of El Perro.
Anxious moments for Tyson Fury, who was badly cut over the right eye in round three and stunned in round 12 by Otto Wallin, whose 127 landed punches were the most by a Fury opponent in 15 of his fights tracked by CompuBox.
Heavyweights Alexander Povetkin (9 of 33) and Hughie Fury (7 of 25) combined to land 16 of 55 punches per round. The heavyweight average for one fighter is 15 of 45 per round.