Fight Review: Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez vs Kermit Cintron

On Saturday Nov. 26th 2011, Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez squared off against Kermit 'The Killer' Cintron in Mexico City.  Alvarez was facing his 4th fight in the year 2011, looking to go perfect in the closing year.  
The first couple of rounds, Alvarez was feeling out Cintron and using his counter punches to match with Kermit's high volume jab work.  By the 3rd round, Canelo seemed very confident as he felt Kermit's power punching and giving almost no respect to Cintron's shots.  Canelo used strong hooks to the body to downsize the taller Cintron.  In the 4th round it was more of the same scenario, Canelo's hard hooks to the body followed by hooks & overhand rights to Cintron's head.  Alvarez managed to score a knock down against Cintron, who really began to feel Canelo's far superior power.  Kermit just made it out of the 4th round as he seemed dazed & confused before barely making it to his corner where it seemed he wouldn't be able to continue.  Cintron showed great heart by coming out in the 5th round, where Canelo met him with strong hooks to the head as he knew Cintron was hurt.  Cintron did put up a fight in the 5th as he might have stunned Canelo a couple times with hard hey makers that landed on Alvarez.  By that time Kermit looked really gassed an uncoordinated as he threw his power punches, Canelo took advantage of this by rocking Cintron with more power shots to Cintron's head.  The referee put a halt to the bout with less than 10 seconds left in the 5th round while Kermit was ready to take another knee on the canvas.  A perfect 4-0 Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez goes in 2011 as he defeated Kermit Cintron with a 5th round TKO.
After the fight, Canelo discussed his interest in wanting to face the best in 2012, starting by calling out Floyd Mayweather J.R.  As intriguing as that may sound, in my opinion, I think Canelo has far more better fights against fighters like, Chavez J.R., Sergio Martinez, the winner between Cotto-Margarito.  Nevertheless, Alvarez does seem to be ready to fight the cream of the crop in the Super Welterweight division, that goes without doubt.  Should make for an exciting 2012 for the young Canelo.
HBO's fights in Cincinnati produced stellar knockouts from hometown kid Adrien Broner in the 3rd round of his bout versus Martin Rodriguez.  Capturing the WBO Junior Lightweight World Title, Broner would like to set himself up with greater fights in the upcoming year.
Gary Russell J.R. also won with a ferocious knock out of late replacement fighter, Heriberto Ruiz.
Good action packed quickie fights brought to us by HBO's 'Boxing After Dark'.


Results:
Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez(win by 5th rd. TKO)
Adrien Broner(win by 3rd rd. KO)
Gary Russell(win by 1st rd. KO)