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Alvarez unified the middleweight division with a points win over Jacobs

By Lena Reece

Sunday 05/05/2019

Saul & # 39; Canelo & # 39; Alvarez (right) won the unanimity in what was a technical fight between two qualified champions[Photo:BBC]

Saul & # 39; Canelo & # 39; Alvarez unified the middleweight division with a points victory over Daniel Jacobs in Las Vegas.

The Mexican, who has just been beaten once in 55 fights, took the Jacobs IBF belt to add to his own WBC and WBA titles.

The judges scored 115-113, 115-113, 116-112 in favor of Canelo after 12 rounds.

And the dashboard reflected Canelo's improved defense and counter-attack capabilities when he returned to 160 lbs.

The 28-year-old became the three-weight world champion as he climbed into a division to face Englishman Rocky Fielding last year, but he returned to the average weight to face the New Yorker Jacobs in his second fight of a £ 278 million contract announced. DAZN streaming service.

Boxing fans will now hope to see Canelo face another American – the WBO middleweight champion, Demetrius Andrade – to become the undisputed middleweight king.

Jacobs – known as the "miracle man" after returning to the ring and becoming a champion as a result of cancer – now counts three defeats in 38 fights.

[[[[Source: BBC]

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