Rocky Fielding: ‘I thought I could mix it with Canelo Alvarez. I shouldn’t have’

Rocky Fielding

LIVERPOOLโ€™S Rocky Fielding can only rue what might have been. He didnโ€™t stay down when a left hook dropped him to a knee in the first round. He rose again in the second but he couldnโ€™t make it through three rounds with the brilliant Canelo Alvarez.

โ€œI never shied away from the challenge,โ€ Rocky reflected afterwards. โ€œI dared to be great. I lived the dream but Iโ€™ll come again. Iโ€™ll come back.โ€

Fielding appraised what Alvarez does well. โ€œHeโ€™s strong. I was catching him with some shots but he kept coming forward. The body shots, it was more like the wind was getting took,โ€ the Liverpudlian said.

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Fielding gave his immediate reaction to his undoing. It was that โ€œhe [Canelo] placed his shots well and he caught me”.

“I stood there too long. I thought I could mix it with him and I shouldnโ€™t have,” Rocky explained. “Youโ€™ve seen the height of me compared to him, I should have kept it long. But I just stood there with someone whoโ€™s elite and whoโ€™s strong and he caught me. I gave it everything and the better man won.โ€

Rocky concluded, โ€œHe does everything well. His timingโ€™s good, his shot selections are good. His presence, just being there and making me work when I didnโ€™t have to. I knew I shouldnโ€™t switch off and I had to be on my game, I never kept it long. I just stood there. Heโ€™s an elite fighter, heโ€™s a great fighter. It was his night.

โ€œHe got me.โ€

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