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Fourth and last episode of “All Access: Mayweather vs Canelo” released some minutes ago (you can watch it at the bottom of this post). This time you can see the arrival of both boxers to Las Vegas: Floyd goes to some party or playing bowling with The Money Team while Canelo seems more focused on his last training session and his weight. In fact in this episode Saul Alvarez says: “I think the weight is the hardest part”; but as we wrote in the statistics post some days ago, they have already made the 7 day pre-fight weigh-in and the results are: 152.2 lbs for Mayweather and 157.4 lbs for Alvarez (the weight limit for the fight is 152 lbs, 68.9 kg).

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

But in this episode of All Access you can also see some highlights of Canelo vs Trout, Mayweather vs Mosley and Canelo vs Mosley. In fact both boxers faced ‘Sugar’ Shane Mosley in their career, so it’s interesting to compare how they behaved against the same opponent (and we did it two days ago in the post: Mayweather vs Canelo CompuBox Stats comparison) and what Mosley thinks about them: “Mayweather has the mastermind, but Canelo

Video: THE ONE Mayweather vs Canelo final press conference

Check out the video above, it is the final press conference between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez held today, wednesday September 11th, 2013 at MGM Grand, Las Vegas. (If you encounter any problem with the video, try to refresh the page or click on the “CC” button, in the upper left part of the player).

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

Mike Tyson, De La Hoya, Andre Ward, Manny Pacquiao, Ronda Rousey, Cain Velasquez, GSP and many other boxers, Ufc champs and boxing trainers predicted in the past weeks who will be the winner of THE ONE: Mayweather vs. Canelo. So we have collected the most important predictions but obviously we want to know also your pick!

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

 

Mike Tyson: “Anything can happen when two human beings get into the ring […] Floyd is very experienced. This guy Alvarez is very strong. It comes across like Floyd will win, but we’ll see.”

 

Gennady Golovkin: “I think Canelo has a big chance, he is younger, he is hungry, he has power.”

 

Manny Pacquiao: “It’s a good fight, Canelo has

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