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Canelo Álvarez vs. Kermit Cintrón

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Date
  
26 November 2011

Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, Mexico
  
Carolina, Puerto Rico

Canelo
  
El Asesino

38–0-1 (28 KO)
  
33–4-1 (28 KO)

Venue
  
Plaza de Toros, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Title(s) on the line
  
WBC Super World Super-Welterweight Championship

Canelo Álvarez vs. Kermit Cintron was a Super-Welterweight championship fight for the WBC World title. The fight took place at the Plaza de Toros México in Mexico City, Distrito Federal Mexico on the 26 of November 2011. It was a split-site doubleheader headlined which featured junior lightweight Adrien Broner against separate opponents from Broner's hometown in Cincinnati.

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Alvarez

Alvarez made his third defense. He was coming off of the sixth-round knockout of Alfonso Gomez on Sept. 17 in Los Angeles.

Cintron

A former two-time welterweight beltholder, Cintron has battled to a disputed draw with RING middleweight titleholder Sergio Martinez, been stopped twice by ex-beltholder Antonio Margarito and lost a four-round technical decision to former two-time beltholder Paul Williams The hard-hitting Cintron was coming off of a 10-round unanimous decision over Antwone Smith in August that helped him to rebound from a 10-round unanimous decision loss to Carlos Molina in July.

Televised

  • Super Welterweight Championship bout: Canelo Álvarez (c) vs. Kermit Cintron
  • Alvarez defeats Cintron via technical knockout at 2:53 of the fifth round.

    • Preliminary card

  • Featherweight bout: Salvador Sánchez II vs. Alexander Monterrosa
  • Sánchez defeats Monterrosa via split decision.
  • Lightweight bout: Daniel Estrada vs. Carlos Parra
  • Middleweight bout: Gilberto Ramirez Sanchez vs. Samuel Miller
  • Sanchez defeats Miller via technical knockout of the fourth round.
  • Middleweight bout: Nobuhiro Ishida vs. Edson Espinoza
  • Ishida defeats Espinoza via technical knockout of the first round.
  • Bantamweight bout: Andres Gutierrez vs. Franklin Varela
  • Bantamweight bout: Willy Velazquez vs. Jesus Ceja
  • Velazquez defeats Ceja via unanimous decision.
  • Light Flyweight bout: Saul Juarez vs. Oswaldo Novoa
  • Super Flyweight bout: Leo Santa Cruz vs. Jorge Romero
  • Cruz defeats Romero via technical knockout at 1:10 of the third round.
  • Bantamweight bout: Ramiro Robles vs. Efren Bautista

    • Result

    Alvarez defeated Cintron via technical knockout in the fifth round of the match.

    References

    Canelo Álvarez vs. Kermit Cintrón Wikipedia
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