Dmitry Bivol defeats Canelo Álvarez in major upset to retain light heavyweight title – as it happened

• Bivol humbles Alvarez in shocker to retain light heavyweight title
• Russian outpoints Mexican by scores of 115-113, 115-113 and 115-113

Round 6

Bivol is fighting an excellent fight. He's keeping Canelo at bay with deft footwork, ring intelligence and sheer size, not making the mistakes that Canelo lives to exploit. But his output has gone down in this round and Alvarez has done just enough to take the sixth, mostly with his defense. According to Compubox's punch statistics, he's landed 71 of 316 punches (24%), compared to 40 of 248 for Canelo (16%).