Packed to the rafters :
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez stopped Billy Joe Saunders in eight rounds on May 8 to unify three super middleweight titles in front of the largest US crowd in history to watch an indoor boxing event. Four-weight world champion Alvarez retained his World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association titles and seized Saunders’ World Boxing Organisation belt when the previously undefeated Briton retired on his stool after taking a beating in the eighth round. Alvarez won by technical knockout after Saunders’ corner called a halt in front of 73,126 fans at AT&T Stadium, which was also the biggest to watch an American sports event since the coronavirus pandemic. The previous largest indoor crowd for a boxing card in the US had been 63,350 for Muhammad Ali’s rematch against
Leon Spinks in 1978.