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Canelo Alvarez dominates overmatched Avni Yildirim in wildly one-sided bout

Canelo Alvarez's "stay busy" fight went by without incident on Saturday, as the super middleweight champion dominated challenger Avni Yildirim on his way to a third-round TKO win in Miami.

After an uneventful first round, Alvarez came alive, or at least stayed awake while Yildirim allowed him to throw a number of uncontested shots. Alvarez scored his first knockdown midway through the third round and stayed in control from there.

AND STILL ud83cuddf2ud83cuddfd @Canelo earns a third round TKO and retains his WBC title. #CaneloYildirim pic.twitter.com/XwqVCbe19A

Yildirim's trainer could be heard telling his fighter he would allow him to go on like that for one more round, but apparently that was too much.