Dmitry Bivol won a unanimous decision over Canelo Álvarez to retain the WBA light heavyweight title in a major upset on Saturday night
All three ringside judges hand down scores of 115-113Photograph: Al Bello/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Al Bello/Getty ImagesDmitry Bivol won a unanimous decision overto retain the WBA light heavyweight title in a major upset on Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The bigger, longer Bivol landed the cleaner and harder shots for most of the night in a fight that was largely non-competitive. All three judges handed down scores of 115-113. (The Guardian had it 117-111 for Bivol. It marks the second official defeat of Álvarez’s career and the first since a 2013 majority-decision loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr.
“I proved myself today,” Bivol said. “If you don’t believe in yourself, what do you do? You’ll achieve nothing. I believed. My team believed me. And you all should believe in yourself to achieve what you want.”“Of course I [want a rematch],” Álvarez said. “This doesn’t end like this.”
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