So what exactly won Canelo the fight???

[Bee Keepz]

Canelo won the fight landed the harder, cleaner punches, great defense by Canelo - bobbing and weaving.

Trout was just throwing pitter patter jabs that weren't even landing, or cleanly landing.

Judges got it right, the right man won.

[bojangles1987]

So, we're just ignoring Trout's body punches and straight lefts, are we?

"Alvarez is going to corner and beat Trout to the body!"

When Trout does that, "Trout only landed jabs."

[NEELZ]

All of Canelo's punches were harder than Trout's. There was a wide difference in the power of the two. Canelo landed some very stout and hard punches to the chest and body. Trout's facial expression registered shock and pain on many punches. I give him credit for getting back on his horse and still continuining to work, even though his punches had little effect.

Canelo's jab was much stiffer, when he chose to throw. The knockdown had Trout in bad shape. I thought Canelo would swoop in for the finish if that happened. But he stayed patient and did seem to gas somewhat.

There were at least two other times that Canelo landed a big uppercut and Trout seemed on the verge of going down but managed to keep himself together.

Whereas I don't think Canelo ever looked too distressed. He slipped punches, masterfully, yes and what landed was ineffective. So to the very biased poster who says what won the fight was Canelo's MUCH harder and cleaner punches.

I think one very hard punch is better than 4-5 soft punches. And the total punches landed were pretty even.

[Mushashi]

On my watch Canelo wasn't active enough, almost every time he opened up he was the better man landing the more telling blows but as I say he didn't do enough of this. He took long stretches off, giving Trout the impetus to dictate the action. He never appeared hurt from Trout's punches so I'm guessing Canelo is lacking in the stamina department, this would account for his relatively low output. I can't give rounds for fighting for 1 minute and then taking 2 minutes off, Trout made the action, Canelo reacted to it. 114-113 Trout.

[deejd]

Ring Generalship was Canelo all day.

No, it wasn't. It's Canelo was gassed all day. He wasn't even picking spots to get his punches off between those weak arm punches Trout was throwing. Both fighters were dog tired by the 4th, the difference is that one fought for about 30 seconds a round while the other had a consistent work rate.

Like I posted in another thread, couldn't care less who won, it could've gone either way... but let's not act like one guy did a landslide more than the other. If anything, the KD in the 7th should probably be the deciding factor in what was an otherwise lackluster showing for both.

[Ray*]

The bold is not the fight I saw Ray my man.

That's exactly what I saw, just watch this whole fight 2 hours ago and scored round 4,6,8 and 12 to trout and the rest to Canelo, the way Canelo was landing those body/chest shots on trout really impresses me, Canelo seem visibly tired around the 6th round which made trout up his workrate but I still didn't see him land anything that catches attention.

[Android18]

Most of his punches were pitty pat jabs. I had no idea pitty pad jabs won you fights.

it did for mayweather.

[spyvsspy]

He landed the harder, cleaner shots. In almost every round, if you asked yourself who you would rather have been that round, the answer was Canelo.

Max Kellerman said that and you stole it from him...

[DARKSEID]

Were you guys just wasted out of your mind when you saw this fight lol? Canelo clearly won.

In the first half of the fight, Trout was pumping his jab and was active with it, but Canelo was staying at the end of his jab. Half straight out missed, half of the half that landed were rolled off by Canelo or were at an ineffective range, and half of those didn't even land that strong.

Canelo answered with his own jab which was more effective than trout's and kept control of the fight with his suprisingly excellent defense, rolling many of trout's punches, making him miss, and landing the harder cleaner shots.

Yeah Trout was more active but how many of his punches actually landed cleanly? Not much.

[Mr. Philadel]

Trout was beating the **** outta the air....Nelo was slipping his shots styling on him....Trout was heavy with the jab rate and he landed some good body shots....he was in the fight all night...**** what the scores said

I'm not into workrates...if a dude is throwing and missing...the guy making him miss must be rewarded so that has to be taken into consideration when scoring rounds imo...some rounds Nelo didn't do **** and some rounds he didn't do **** for 2 minutes but ended landing the "OOH" punch of the round....the fight was mad close....I don't have no complaints about Nelo getting the "W" at all

my problem is with how WIDE the scores were....that took away from the beauty of a fight that was actually good in terms of action...even when Nelo wasn't throwing **** he remained dangerous and Trout was willing to exchange with him in DANGER range.....gutsy stuff imo

if one guy(Calzaghe) is throwing and the other guy(Hopkins) is making him miss but occasionally gets clipped by jab or a straight to body but also delivering those "OOH" punches....can't complain really about him getting the "W" imo....the dude beating up the air might've LOOKED like he was handling things but if you're missing....you're not handling **** imo