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AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST YOU CAN FIND THE CompuBox Stats of Mayweather vs ‘Canelo’ Alvarez fight (added on September 16, 2013).

 

Yesterday we analyzed some numbers, records and statistics about Floyd Mayweather Jr and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, but in the sweet science the most important things are punches. So today, as we promised in the previous post, we want to compare Floyd and Canelo through the Compubox Stats. We start to examine their last fight in which both boxers got an unanimous decision win in twelve rounds: Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Robert Guerrero and Saul Alvarez vs Austin Trout.

CompuBox Statistics	Mayweather vs Guerrero UD12	Alvarez vs Trout UD12
punches thrown	476	431
punches landed	195 (41%)	124 (29%)
jabs thrown	222	207
jabs landed	42 (19%)	28 (14%)
power punches thrown	254	224
power punches landed	153 (60%)	96 (43%)
punches thrown x minute	13.2	11.97
punches landed x minute	5.4	3.4

 

The problem is that Robert Guerrero and Austin Trout are obviously two different boxers, but in the next two tables you can compare Mayweather and Canelo with the same opponents. In fact both had faced Shane Mosley and Carlos Manuel Baldomir. Who’s behaved better?

Link to the fight: Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez

After watching the best promos and videos about “The One: Mayweather vs Canelo” in the previous post, it’s time to compare the two boxers. We definitely like numbers, statistics, data, and since this fight will go down in history of boxing, we want to collect all the stats before the bout happen. So today we start to analyze both Floyd Mayweather Jr and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez through three tables. Here’s the first one in which you can see the most common info about the two fighters:

	Floyd Mayweather Jr	Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez
record	44-0-0	42-0-1
KOs (%)	26 (59%)	30 (70%)
rounds boxed	327	277
average round x fight	7.43	6.44
age	36	23
height	5’8″ / 173cm	5’9″ / 175 cm
reach	72″ / 183cm	71″ /180 cm
weight division ranking	No.1 Ww	No.1 light Mw
P4p ranking	No.1	No.3

 

Probably everyone who loves boxing knows the info above, so in the second table we have examined in depth the two boxers. For example do you know that Mayweather suffered a knockdown in his professional career? And ‘Canelo’ Alvarez? Or do you want to know the official results of the 7 day pre-fight weigh-in (held on September 6th)? Discover this info and other statistics after the jump!

Link to the fight: Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez

Sometimes the video-preview of a bout could be more exciting than the full fight, but we think that with the fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez all expectations will be fulfilled. However, today we want to post four nice videos about this fight:

 

1. first of all we have to publish the last video released by Showtime. It is a short promo of “The One: Mayweather vs Canelo”

Link to the fight: Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez

 

2. Then we have to post the official promo of “The One: Mayweather vs Canelo”, a great introduction to the fight with some highlights of their last fights mixed with some training session clips

Seven days to the biggest boxing event of 2013, the fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, and it’s time to watch the new episode of “All Access: Mayweather vs Canelo”. This third epidsode starts with the bad relationship between Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya and here are some Floyd’s words: “He is jealous of me. The Golden Boy is extremely fake”. Then the attention shifts on ‘Canelo’ Alvarez’s training and on some advice by his trainer Eddie Reynoso but in the video it is also emphasized that the Mexican boxer still refuses to disclose his weight…

On the other hand, Floyd Mayweather Jr shows his collection of cars (Bugatti Veyron, two Ferrari and Rolls Royce, Lamborghini, Bentley, Mercedes) and describes his lifestyle: dinner with friends, massages and he introduces some of the women working for “The Money Team – TMT”.

Both boxers are confident to win this fight and Saul Alvarez, after watching the fight Mayweather vs Cotto, says: “Cotto lost to Austin Trout [Cotto vs Trout], and I beat Austin Trout [Canelo vs Trout]. That’s why I’m so confident. On September 14th, I’m going to shock the world”!!!

What are you waiting for…check out this third episode of “All Access: Mayweather vs Canelo”!

Link to the fight: Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez