Saul Alvarez beats Lanardo Tyner in another strong Saturday fight
by SC on Dec 6, 2009 1:22 AM EST
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19-year old Mexican prospect Saul "Canelo" Alvarez stayed unbeaten with a hard-fought victory over tough veteran Lanardo Tyner tonight in Tepic, Mexico.
Alvarez (30-0-1, 22 KO) outpointed Tyner (21-3, 13 KO) over 12 rounds, winning a minor welterweight trinket. I saw the fight from the fifth round on only, but it was a good scrap, Tyner gave Alvarez some resistance, and the veteran might have even been able to pull off the upset on a different night.
But one thing is obvious: Alvarez is progressing very nicely, though his gung ho mentality may eventually get the best of him before he reaches the true top levels.
It's the third loss in five fights for Tyner, 34, the Detroit native who now fights out of Houston. But the losses have all been quality, coming to Mike Arnaoutis, Lamont Peterson and now Alvarez. He has no real notable wins, but he's got a stiff chin and enough skills that he's become a pretty nice gatekeeper for guys looking to bounce up a level, and there's solid money in that role. Boxing needs guys like Tyner.
The decision win also ended a seven-fight knockout victory streak for Alvarez. Golden Boy and Top Rank are both interested in the young Mexican, whose fights have been drawing very big crowds. In a lot of ways, he's like a better Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
While Alvarez doesn't have Junior's famous name, he's a better fighter, probably will have a longer shelf life, and fights a crowd-pleasing style, while Chavez was booed heavily last time out for putting on such a bore of a contest. One of the two U.S. giants will wind up signing him eventually, and it'll be interesting to see who it is.
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I saw this from the beginning. Tyner took some pretty vicious blow from ALvarez and kept coming, I would refer to him as a raging bull, but he just could not stop coming. Even during the replays were shown he looked like he could take Alvarez’ shots all night long. Usually when you see a replay you see heavy blows just plundering a guy, but here it was more like rain drops were falling hard on Tyner. I am happy with the fact that Saul Alvarez is becoming and interesting if not a pretty serious opponent. I truly cannot wait to see him up against some of the top 15 in the Welterweight division. Also, who knows, he was talking a while back after Chavez Jr never gave him an answer to face him that he’ll try his best to seek a fight with Miguel Cotto, Joshua Clottey or Zab Judah. I am sure this is all talk for him to get Chavez Jr to man up and fight him, but can you Imagine on “lowest level” a fight with Zab Judah. If he wins, he will sure as hell will be turning a lot of freaking heads.
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