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Packed to the rafters :

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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.

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