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| Photo credit Kendrick Johnson |
When a raucous crowd of 40,000 people are doing the wave all the way around the stadium 2 hours before a championship fight like they did this weekend at the Alamodome in San Antonio, you officially have an electric atmosphere, which was exactly the case when Saul “Canelo” Alvarez took on Austin “No Doubt” Trout.
With a star studded crowd that included everyone from Super Bowl Champ Ray Lewis, IBF Light middleweight champion Ishe Smith, and the Golden Boy himself Oscar De La Hoya, the electricity in the air could be felt from San Antonio to Dallas. Combine this with the show-stopping performance by Texas native Omar Figueroa, whose first round knockout on the front end of the main event, had the crowd in a frenzy and the stage set for major fireworks.
The pro Canelo crowd was 95 percent fully behind the Mexican born Alvarez. While there were a few but not many T-shirts in the crowd, which read something different: "Team Trout."
"We really do have a team and everybody is a part of this," said Trout, wiping the sweat from his face after a tough fight. "It takes everybody to get me ready."
by Kendrick Johnson
For the third time this year, the Lone Star state was treated to fireworks thanks to Marcos “Chino” Maidana and Adrien “The Problem” Broner. Maidana won the WBA welterweight championship, knocking Broner down twice for first two times of his career in a unanimous decision Saturday night at the Alamodome.
