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The fight was a 12-round lightweight unification bout between Corrales and Castillo. Corrales, who had a career record of 39–2 with 32 knockouts, was the World Boxing Organization (WBO) champion. Castillo, at 52–6–1 with 46 knockouts, was the World Boxing Council (WBC) champion. Castillo's style was to fight inside.
In front of a record breaking crowd of 51,240, Álvarez would largely control the bout, dropping the champion in the 7th and 8th round. A left hook to the body in round nine sent Smith down again and he failed to beat to count, giving Álvarez a knockout victory. Álvarez landed 157 punches from 422 thrown a connect rate of 37%, compared to Smith landing 115 from 403 thrown, a connect rate of 29%.
José Cuevas vs. Thomas Hearns, billed as World War II, was a professional boxing match contested on August 2, 1980, for the WBA welterweight title. [ 1 ] Background
Michael Nunn vs. Sumbu Kalambay, billed as Premier Battle, was a professional boxing match contested on March 25, 1989, for the IBF middleweight title. [3] The fight won The Ring magazine's inaugural knockout of the year award for 1989.
Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, billed as The Fight of the Century or simply The Fight, [2] was an undisputed heavyweight championship boxing match between WBA, WBC, and The Ring heavyweight champion Joe Frazier and Lineal champion Muhammad Ali, on Monday, March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. [3] [4] [5]
Canelo Álvarez vs. Billy Joe Saunders, billed as Face the Fearless, was a super middleweight professional boxing match contested between WBA (Super), WBC, and The Ring champion, Canelo Álvarez, and WBO champion Billy Joe Saunders.
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In what was billed as a precursor to a unification match between the two, Marlon Starling, the WBA's welterweight champion, and Lloyd Honeyghan, who held the WBC's version of the title, would participate in a doubleheader event broadcast on HBO World Championship Boxing in which they would each make title defenses against their respective mandatory challengers.