Canelo Alvarez Knocks out Rocky Fielding to Win WBA Middleweight Title

Canelo Alvarez
Canelo Alvarez. Photo by Harry Pluviose/mediapunch/REX/Shutterstock

Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez knocked down Rocky Fielding four times at the Madison Square Garden to win the match in the third round on Saturday.

Despite being his debut in New York, the Mexican dominated Rocky with his quick left-hard punches that led to a third-round TKO to win the WBA super middleweight title. Canelo wore out his opponent with punches mainly to his chest and knocked him down four times in front of a sellout 20,112 fans.

“That was the plan in the gym, to hit the body and then move up, and that’s the result,” -Alvarez said.

Fielding came to the game with a 27-2 record, 15 of which were knockouts. He also had a five-inch height advantage. However, the British former WBA champion failed to land anything that gave him an advantage over Canelo.

There wasn’t even a contestant. Canelo was the better boxer from the start to the end of the fight. The Mexican landed 35 of 73 punches to Rocky’s body and occasionally forced the Englishman against the rope.

Alvarez was also fresh off a fight in which he won over Gennady Golovkin in September and had a small cut from the fight that wasn’t properly healed.

The fight was his first in the 11-game, $365 million deal with streaming network DAZN.