Many questions for Alvarez after loss

Canelo Alvarez paused on his way to the ring to pose with his right fist high in the air, basking in the adulation of thousands of his fans expecting nothing more on this Cinco de Mayo weekend than another big win by a fighter already considered one of Mexico’s all-time greats. He left 12 rounds later with his first loss in nine years. Dmitry Bivol didn’t just beat Alvarez on Saturday night in Las Vegas. He gave him a beating in a light heavyweight fight that wasn’t as close as the 115-113 cards turned in by the three ringside judges. And now the questions begin. Did Alvarez take too big of a risk moving up to 175 pounds to take on a tough champion in Bivol? Did the loss to the Russian damage the legacy Alvarez has built in the last decade along with his status as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world? And what becomes of his third fight with Gennadiy Golovkin, a long-awaited mega bout that now surely won’t be happening in September as planned, if at all? Now there will be new plans, including a possible rematch that Alvarez was talking about even before he left the ring.