Canelo Álvarez vs. Kermit Cintrón

Super Welterweight Championship
Date	26 November 2011
Venue	Plaza de Toros, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Title(s) on the line	WBC Super World Super-Welterweight Championship
Tale of the tape
Boxer
Boxer	Saúl Álvarez
Nickname	Canelo
Hometown	Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, Mexico
Pre-fight record	38–0-1 (28 KO)
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight	154
Style	orthodox
Recognition	WBC Super World Super-Welterweight Champion
Result
	Alvarez defeats Cintron via technical knockout.

Saúl Álvarez vs. Kermit Cintron was a Super-Welterweight championship fight for the WBC World title.^[1]^[2] 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.^[3]

Background

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.

Undercard

Televised

Super Welterweight Championship bout: Saul Alvarez (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.

International broadcasting

Country	Broadcaster
Mexico	Televisa
United States	HBO Sports

References

^ BoxRec Boxing Records. Boxrec.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-08.
^ Thomas, Eric (October 3, 2011). "Saul Alvarez vs. Kermit Cintron looking good for November 26th". Boxing News 24. Retrieved October 8, 2011. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ Satterfield, Lem (October 7, 2011). "Alvarez-Cintron tops HBO Triple-Header". Ring TV. Retrieved October 8, 2011. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

External links

Preceded by vs. Alfonso Gomez	Saul Alvarez's bouts November 26, 2011	Succeeded by vs. Shane Mosley
Preceded by vs. Antwone Smith	Kermit Cintrón's bouts November 26, 2011	Succeeded by vs. Adrian Granados

[1] BoxRec Boxing Records. Boxrec.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-08.

[2] Thomas, Eric (October 3, 2011). "Saul Alvarez vs. Kermit Cintron looking good for November 26th". Boxing News 24. Retrieved October 8, 2011. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[3] Satterfield, Lem (October 7, 2011). "Alvarez-Cintron tops HBO Triple-Header". Ring TV. Retrieved October 8, 2011. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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