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Mexico’s Canelo TKOs Yildirim in Three Rounds

By RICARDO CASTILLO World super middleweight boxing champion Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez on Saturday, Feb. 27, outpunched Turkish challenger Avni Yildirim to retain his World Boxing Council (WBC) and World Boxing Association (WBA) belts at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. During the first two rounds, the 30-year-old Álvarez, a native of Guadalajara, México, studied Yildirim’s style, and by the third round ,he

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