Round 5
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Is Alvarez crazy? He’s still staying up on his toes and boxing from a distance. It’s not working, and Mayweather is able to either avoid the punches or parry them away.
The kid loses his head for a moment when Mayweather barks something to him in the center of the ring, so he rushes in and fires in hooks and uppercuts to Mayweather’s body.
They’re mostly blocked, but Alvarez has succeeded in getting Mayweather up against the ropes. Here Alvarez let’s his hands go. He’s throwing three- and four-punch combinations. He’s not landing many, but it’s keeping Mayweather from landing and might impress the judges.
At the end of it, Alvarez has landed more punches for the first time since the second round, with Mayweather landing the cleaner blows. It’s a tough one to score.
Mayweather 10-9
49-47 Mayweather