When the fight was first announced in October, boxing analyst Lee Wylie looked at Rocky Fielding's immense height advantage over Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and noted that with his long torso and Alvarez’s body punching abilities, for this fight Fielding would “need to wear body armour.” It ends up, he was dead on.
Alvarez dropped Fielding four times on Saturday night, including three knockdowns that came as a result of body shots. It was the final left hook to Fielding’s liver that led the referee to stop the fight in the third round.