Undisputed tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs) will defend his championship crown towards undefeated former junior middleweight champion Jaime Munguia (43-0, 34 KOs) this Saturday, Could 4th at T-Cell Area in Las Vegas, Nevada. This match has the makings for an all-out struggle.
Jaime Munguia is a extremely offensive quantity puncher who seeks to impose his will and in the end knock out Canelo. Will he succeed? Alvarez has fought many sturdy punchers prior to now and his granite chin survived all of them.
He fought Gennady Golovkin thrice and former gentle heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev, defeating them each. Munguia is a powerful quantity puncher who breaks his opponents down by way of his relentless stress and quantity.
In line with Compubox, Munguia’s common output is 63 punches per spherical whereas Canelo has a decrease price with a median of 40.8 punches thrown per spherical. Canelo is economical together with his punches however he’s efficient, between the 2, he’s the one with the upper join share at 35.3 %.
Munguia is an offensive puncher with very restricted protection. If Canelo can reduce Munguia’s output by efficiently defending, he’ll create the openings for his counterattack.
Canelo should successfully defend by catching, slipping, and rolling Munguia’s punches after which exactly touchdown his counters. Canelo has prior to now been profitable towards aggressive stress fighters by using this technique. He has glorious head motion, fast reflexes, and decently quick palms.
He’s good at timing opponents, making them miss, and countering them with precision. John Ryder confronted each Canelo Alvarez and Jaime Munguia and though shedding to each, offensively he struggled rather more at touchdown towards Canelo than he did with Munguia. Connecting on solely 17.5 % of his punches versus Canelo, versus the 25.7 % he related towards Munguia.
Jaime doesn’t like cell fighters, he tends to battle towards these fighters who make the most of motion. Even restricted motion creates offensive challenges for Munguia. Dennis Hogan boxed Munguia in 2019 and uncovered his restricted leg motion, he outlanded him by one punch 123 to 122 in his majority determination loss.
Since then, different boxers have had restricted success towards Munguia by creating area and being out of vary. Sergiy Derevyanchenko (15-5, 10 KOs) intelligently boxed Munguia by using out and in motion, outlanding Munguia in 6- of the 12 rounds they fought in.
He additionally landed 32.4 % of his energy punches. A easy tactic Sergiy employed was merely stepping out of vary, Canelo not probably the most cell can make use of this tactic towards Munguia.
Canelo Alvarez has the benefit in expertise, protection, and energy. The most important query shall be if at 33, Canelo has aged to a degree the place his expertise have diminished so considerably as to not enable him to successfully compete towards Munguia. He has the talent set to efficiently defeat an excessively aggressive quantity puncher.
All through the years he’s fought various boxing kinds,managing to adapt to all of them, this must be no totally different.
Munguia solely holds a 2-inch attain benefit and would maintain helpful to Jaime provided that he decides to plot a shock tactic by boxing on the surface or if Munguia’s punch resistance can’t maintain to Canelo’s energy, forcing him to the surface to evade his punches.
The hungry lion seeks to dethrone the reigning king will he achieve success? Canelo doesn’t appear able to relinquish his crown fairly but.
Supply: Compubox
