Canelo Álvarez vs. Dmitry Bivol | The Scorecard with Cedric Benn | TalkinFight.com

Cedric presents his scorecard for Canelo Álvarez vs. Dmitry Bivol, billed as Legacy is Earned, was a professional boxing match between 4-division world champion, Canelo Álvarez, and defending WBA light heavyweight champion, Dmitry Bivol. The fight took place on May 7, 2022, with Bivol prevailing as the winner by unanimous decision.

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What up what up? What up welcome back! Welcome back! Welcome back to the scorecard the boxing scorecard, where you have to bring your scorecard and an explanation, not just your opinion.

Thank you very much for everyone for tuning.

In this week, we had uh big fights um the biggest draw in the sport.

Mr canela alvarez fought last night against the michigan, dimitri bivall um, at a light at the light heavyweight division.

This was a good test, um good test for canelo vival.

A lot of people vival is not really known um.

You know he doesn’t really speak english and he’s not on social media a lot so a lot of people.

You know he kind of falls under the radar, if he’s not fighting, but he is a very.

He is a very good uh fighter, very good competitor.

I predicted before the fight um that vivald would win by split decision.

Um.

A lot of people thought it was crazy, especially picking vival, to win a decision on cinco de mayo against canelo um the odds.

I think the odds were like five to one for for canelo anyways.

The fight ended up being a unanimous decision for dmitry bivall must of the surprise of everyone before the fight before the fight happened.

Very few people had predicted what i said.

Well, i didn’t predict as unanimous.

This is not i predicted a split decision.

I predicted this a split decision um, but uh, but it ended up being uh unanimous for uh, for for mr baval 115 to 113 was the score cards for was all three score cards.

All three three judges had 115 113.

My specific score card was 117 to 111 for bivol and i’m gon na go through each round.

Well, let me break it down.

First um.

I specifically had three close rounds and before i give the explanation you know there was a lot of um a lot of angry people saying that um.

You know that the scorecards were were too close for comfort, and i i personally i had it 117 111 and a lot of people had it wide like that too.

Um got into an argument because i was explaining how what up sheila i was explaining how i could understand how the judges had it closer.

First of all, let me go i’ll, explain how, with the how i thought, the judges i can understand how the judges had it one fifteen one, thirteen.

So i did wide one seventeen one eleven.

I had three close rounds.

I marked round five round seven and sorry round three, five and seven.

I marked those as close rounds so and i’m on all those close rounds.

I gave to vival, but again that’s why i’m glad the app that i use just to judge these fights.

There’S a there’s a button, you can press to mark a close round um.

So if, though, and i gave those close rounds, which means just the definition of a close round means it’s pretty obvious, it means that that that round could have went to either guy.

I just slightly leaned a little bit more towards bival in those close rounds, so those three close rounds.

If, if i would have swung the other way, you know it would have been, it would have been a draw, it would have been 114 114 and then that last round would have decided uh who won.

For me, this is just my opinion.

This is why i ask everyone: you know i’ve gone to a few into a big argument last night, but i’m just explaining my score.

There’S nothing to argue about the three close rounds that i had if they would have went the other way it would have been a tie going into the last round.

It’S not crazy to to think if you look specifically at your scorecard and explain yourself all right.

So let me go through each round: real, quick, um so round one i gave uh around when i gave to canelo um, which is crazy because, first of all, with the judge, the judges gave the first the first four rounds to canelo.

I did not agree with that.

Shout out to the future world champion right here: cj getting ready for soccer um, the first round i gave to canelo because i thought he was uh.

He was busier than normal, even though pavel did his thing, but but um i just thought uh canelo was was that much busier with his punches second round second round the second and third round, i gave to uh to vivald chill chill too no, the second and Third round i gave to duvall canelo was coming forward, but the ball was landing.

Was landing uh landing, separate combinations cj.

He was landing, separate combinations and was busier um.

So that’s why i gave that second round to to vival, because, even though, like i said canelo, he was coming forward with his hands up looking looking to land some good shots, but the vol bavar combinations.

I thought were a little bit more a little bit more effective, a little bit more effective round.

Three was the first round i marked as a close round, and i gave it to beval.

But while i was boxing very well, canelo was throwing single punches closed door.

Please canelo was throwing single punches, but the ball was just faster um yeah, but the volvo’s boxing very well in that third round um again canelo was what i like to call single punch combinations.

It wasn’t.

It wasn’t like a like a like a fast combo.

It was more like one one power shot at a time, but he was putting him putting him together like taking his time to really turn his hips and pivot his foot to make sure that the punches were hard.

So they were more single punches, but in concession, so single punch, combinations but again below.

I thought the vault was just faster in his combos and landing in that third round marked it as a close round.

The fourth round um, the fourth round i gave to canelo and my notes, my specific notes for that was only because the wall was not as busy canelo, not landing that much but way busier than baval.

So i thought baval actually gave that round away.

I don’t think it was uh, i don’t think it was had to do with with canelo imposing his will um but uh yeah.

I just thought if i thought that fourth round was more of the vault taking it easy, which i did not think was a good idea um, because it’s already hard to win a a decision against canelo, even though i thought it was.

You know again cinco de mayo winning a decision against a mexican the number one.

Arguably one of the top guys in the sport, which was, you know, be very hard to win a decision.

So i thought when, when the few times that vol was kind of taking it easy um uh landing the um anyway, sorry, fourth round yeah, give it give it to you know: let us move on.

We got a few comments here: uh sheila, but well connected more.

Yes, cj i’ll tell cj, you said: hi um, i don’t know what you’re talking about, but this is very interesting.

I’M glad! Well, that’s the point.

I’M glad that you’re here jasper, because i’m gon na educate you on boxing and how to score on how to score the fights all right um going into this fourth round talking about boxing number one guy in the sport, one of the number one guys in the Sport canelo versus the number two guy in a weight class.

Above so again, even though not too many people knew who duvall was, he was a very good competitor.

Okay round, five was the second round.

Uh was the second round.

Yes, i boxed before only amateur.

I had 30 amateur fights is 24 and six not pro.

Now i just focus on on training, i’m a coach.

Now too, let’s continue round five second round, i marked as a close round um canelo chilling against the ropes.

I gave this round to bevall canelo um.

He started to show some of the signs of of of what he did against mayweather when he got when he was getting frustrated and and again this is not.

I got ta choose my words carefully, because it’s not it’s not uh, it’s not quitting or giving up.

It’S just your the body language, the body language was showing that he was frustrated and wasn’t sure how to get how to get to vivald.

Like his plan, a was was not working and he was kind of frustrated how he was going to get in um.

So uh yeah round five to to beval round six i gave to to to canelo so going into round six.

It was 57 57.

It’S a tight high score right now, going after at the end of the sixth round, which i gave to canal.

I didn’t write any notes for that sixth round right there not sure why um seventh round the seventh round was the was the last um.

Thank you very much sheila.

Thank you for your support.

Jasper, thank you for for joining too.

Anybody have any other questions too.

Please put them in the chat, i’ll uh i’ll.

Try not to get distracted as i’m reading the scorecard, but um yeah yeah any questions.

If you can, please put your score credit in the chat too, all right or if you want just put what rounds you gave to each guy um.

Where are we at here round? Seven i had close round was the third round.

The third round that i marked as a close round – and i gave it again to vival uh my notes for round seven – was the ball boxing very well canelo chillin versus the ropes again and again, it’s the body language.

The way that canelo was chilling against the ropes and like telling him to come here, that’s that’s the exact same exact same thing.

He did to mayweather when he couldn’t get close to him and that’s the most common thing body: language, common thing that that people uh that people do when they’re um when they’re frustrated and can’t get through their opponent.

They back themselves into the corner and tell you like it’s basically saying like listen it’s too hard for me to come after you out there.

So i need you to come close to me, so i have a better chance to hit you.

That’S that’s! Basically, what someone says when they just stand against ropes and and you see them with their glove time come here.

Please come here, it’s too hard for me to come after you.

I can’t do it.

So i need you to come come to me, so you can give me a better chance to beat you.

So i’m glad bevelle, baval they’ve, all showed his discipline.

Um showed his discipline by not getting into that bait when canelo was telling him to come here.

He just stood his ground and he’s like no i’m actually going to back up to the center of the ring where i have the advantage and you have to come after me, which you had no success doing so far.

So vival was fighting very smart um.

The way that canelo usually breaks down his opponents as the as the the fight goes on, he was not able to do that against mr baval um in in canelo’s last fight against caleb plant, which i had kayla plant winning or close.

But it was a very close one.

I know if i had him winning, but i know caleb plant won some very close rounds good rounds in that canelo fight.

Even though plant had success early um, you can see slowly around the like eighth, ninth and whichever round that plant got stopped in that, canelo was slow slowly imposing as well.

More and more as the fight was going on in this fight right here, there was none of that.

Canelo was trying to come forward and impose his will, but the ball was like nah, i’m standing right here, i’m blocking your punches, none very very rarely any of them are getting through.

I don’t think vivald didn’t have a mark on his face after that fight.

After the fight, so his defense was on point um, very confident, and you can tell he had a specific strategy because, like i said a few times earlier in the fight when i thought that he was kind of taking it taking it easy um, i didn’t think It was a good idea, you know you know trying to win a decision against canelo.

You got to be busy all the time just with a split decision, so i thought i thought it was kind of crazy for him to to kind of coast himself in those early rounds, but obviously he had a specific strategy to pick it up a lot more.

As the rounds went on because um he did it, and i got the highlights on my other laptop here.

Let me finish my scorecard, though, round seven yeah uh the ball back very well, canelo chilling against the ropes just like he did against mayweather when he couldn’t do nothing round.

Eight.

Well, the rest of the way i gave to the rest of the rounds.

I gave to beval the rest of the way.

That’S why that’s why it became so wide after the seventh round round eight, my notes for round eight was bevall, landed, double digits, each round canelo! Oh yes, this was a statistic that they brought up, which really surprised me um up until th this point in the fight, baval landed, double digit amount of punches each round.

Canelo did not.

He did not.

That was uh.

I was a big surprise by that statistic.

Right there um, like it’s, not really surprised because canelo, even if he’s not that busy, usually his punches, are have more effect than his opponent’s punches.

So, even though, sometimes he’s not as busy as his opponents, sometimes he’ll, still win around because of that because of the effectiveness of his punch round nine, also to deval my notes for round nine vivald landed, cleaner um, don’t let the crowd fool you for canelo.

He threw but not landed um.

You know the crowd was pro canelo, so obviously any little shadow boxing punchy through the crowd was going.

You know yelling for him.

That’S why i wrote that notes.

Don’T let the crowd fool you uh canelo was throwing but um.

They were not effective and beval of duvall won that round.

Clearly i thought uh that was round nine round ten canelo looking like he did against floyd.

That’S all.

I wrote for my notes for round ten canelo looking like he did versus floyd um, looking schooled and frustrated, schooled and frustrated on on.

You know, because his plan a wasn’t working here.

He is his plan, a wasn’t working and um.

I don’t know if he didn’t have a plan b or had too much pride to switch to it to switch his game plan up um but yeah.

He would look like like he did against floyd round 11 um.

You know, you know canelo’s losing by uh um.

The round by how quiet the crowd is without boxing him clearly again, this was a a a pro canelo crowd, so anything he did.

The crowd was going crazy at round 11.

The crowd was quiet.

That’S how you know you’re doing good against against against the the guy.

If you know you can you can clearly hear your coaches instructions, you don’t have to yell at each other, because the crowd’s quiet, because your opponent’s not doing nothing.

It’S a good thing for you and round 12.

um simple.

It was clear for beval and he closed that fight the way he was supposed to um.

He finished strong, as i’m looking at chris maddox’s score.

I rarely i rarely agree with chris maddox one of the commentators for the zone, but we actually had the same scorecard yesterday, um so yeah.

I don’t see anybody scorecards in the thing here.

So i guess you didn’t have to most people didn’t have to score because they thought it was just clear for canelo um.

Does anybody have any questions or comments about the fight about me or the fight, or anything like that? Where does each fighter go from here? Very good question: well, the vault’s chilling he’s on top of the world now um.

Now here’s the question: do we? This is more of a question for the for the for the boxing twitter world that everyone likes to make a a list and stuff like that.

I remember after teofimo tio fema lopez beat lomachenko, which no one expected people were talking about, putting him on the pound for poundless right if you beat the man and you’re the man.

So where does this put the ball right now? Are you guys going to put him on your pound for boundless, since, since 90 of people had canelo as the number one pound-for-pound guy in the sport, and he just clearly lost to someone who was, he was a five to one favorite over so um.

That’S my question to to the boxing world: are you bringing down canelo a few notches, or are you going to put bevel up a few notches in in your ranks, um so and very interesting to see where the ball is going to go on top go? Go from here he’s on top of the world right now, man, he just beat the top guy canelo looked lost.

He was accepting those combos yeah yeah yeah yeah, like i said he was accepting them because he you know he didn’t have um.

He didn’t have nothing to come back to come to come back with the stuff that he usually comes back with that works on other opponents.

Wasn’T working on the ball, but, while was taking his shots, got very good defense nothing’s, not spectacular defense.

He wasn’t like slipping and slipping moving and ducking under just simply kept his hands up.

It was just blocking you know, mastering the fundamentals, what i tell people, all the time master the fundamentals um.

Where does canelo go from here very interesting, very interesting, because uh that was that light heavyweight? So now he’s kind of forced, not forced, but you know he’s gon na go back down to 168.

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Now he has to fight benavidez and charlo.

Oh those are the fights.

Those are the fights that i specifically want to see: um much respected of all um, very good competitor.

I just personally wanted to see benavidez or trello so um.

This is going to be very interesting to see where where canelo goes from here, he’s not you know, and i guess we can kill this talk about um.

You know him going up to the cruiserweight.

You know i even see a picture him uh um a picture of him beside usic as if that might be a possibility, let’s kill all that right now: okay, please! Let’S, let’s kill all that, come back to reality.

Let’S get these big fights at the super middleweight between benavidez and charlo, that is what i’m looking for: yeah yeah, yeah um and that’s it man come on anybody, any comments, any questions or anything like that.

Thank you very much you guys for being here today.

The scorecard every sunday at 11 a little bit early today, my son had soccer, so i had to have to put the show on a little bit early today um, but thank you very much for listening.

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