sport news JEFF POWELL: Canelo Alvarez was knocked off his golden perch by Dmitry Bivol trends now
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The world order of boxing along with its richest single revenue stream has been turned on its head and is unlikely to be righted if Canelo Alvarez goes ahead with a rematch against the Russian who knocked him off his golden perch in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
Dmitry Bivol's triumph does not rank among the mightiest upsets in ring history - even though Canelo came to the ring widely lauded as the best pound-for-pound for pound fighter on the planet - since the Mexican superstar brought his second career defeat upon himself by over-reaching all the way up to light-heavyweight.
Alvarez had got away with this once before but Bivol was not the faded Sergey Kovalev who meekly surrendered the 175 pound title with which Canelo expanded his world championship resume to a fourth weight division.
The world order of boxing was turned on its head when Dmitry Bivol beat Canelo Alvarez
Bivol came to the Strip to fight and simply by imposing his physical advantages of height, reach and natural weight was able to derail a veritable freight-train of multi-million dollar plans. The fantasy of Alvarez becoming only the second former middleweight of the modern era to become world heavyweight champion included.
Not after this weekend when the hardest game's biggest cash cow could not be saved by the judges, as he had been twice before against Gennady Golovkin. Not even in Sin City, his second home town.
Grudgingly, to save themselves chronic embarrassment, three of the Nevada State Athletic Commission's supposedly finest adjudicators handed down a unanimous decision against him. Albeit by a dubiously narrow
