Canelo vs Kovalev Scorecards At The Time Of Stoppage Revealed

Tonight’s big fight in Las Vegas ended with a bang. Quite literally.

Coming in the form of Mexican boxing super star Canelo Alvarez’ right hand as he exacted the perfect punch to render former light-heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev out for the count at the MGM Grand.

Whenever a big fight involving Canelo rolls around there’s usually a bit of apprehension and debate about judging and scorecards in his fights following some controversy over the years.

But to be fair to Canelo, you have to hand it to him tonight — he took the decision out of the hands of the judges in the most sensational way possible.

Boxing fans had been scoring the fight quite differently all night but here is what the official judges’ scorecards read at the actual time of tonight’s stoppage:

https://twitter.com/corey_erdman/status/1190873490557149184

Basically #Kovalev was getting robbed anyway . I had #krusher up 7-3 up until he took a dive and got knocked out .

— NYcars212 (@ycars212) November 3, 2019

The Canelo Kovalev scorecard pic.twitter.com/tVU8znedvd

— Kevin Iole (@KevinI) November 3, 2019

Here’s some more reaction from fight fans to tonight’s official scorecard:

Thanks for posting. Predictably ridiculous

— EoftheOther (@EoftheOther) November 3, 2019

Not one of them gave Kovalev the 5th round? Yikes.

— The Blacc Man of Steel (@SupermanHopkins) November 3, 2019

https://twitter.com/Chad83939539/status/1190876549714546688

Either way, whatever anyone’s opinion on the scorecards were tonight, Canelo took the decision out of their hands in the end.

Full respect to him for that and for treating boxing fans to such an emphatic stoppage tonight.

Kudos.