A beautiful sight on Saturday night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington where 73,126 fans showed up to watch the highly anticipated bout between Canelo Alvarez and Billy Joe Saunders.
Promote Eddie Hearn says “this is the biggest live event crowd post pandemic. We also heard we officially broken the U.S. boxing record for largest indoor crowd."
Of course, the local news outlets are going the fear porn route.
From NBC-DFW, "Doctors and other experts fear such lax rules could lead to an upswing in COVID-19 cases".
And basically all the other local news outlets were complaining about the lack of mask at AT&T stadium.
Alvarez (56-1-2, 38 KOs) finished Saunders off with an uppercut in Round 8. Saunders didn’t answer the bell for Round 9.
This is the punch from Canelo that hurt Saunders: