(Boxing news) Canelo Alvarez entered the ring as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world but now, for the first time in his career he can call himself the undisputed king of the middleweight category. Canelo finished the encounter in the 11th round TKO victory at the historic MGM Grand Arena to become the first middleweight to unify all the four 168 pound titles in less than 12 months.

The bout started with Canelo being reserved and assessing his opponents moves as Caleb continuously used the jab to his advantage, but as the initial rounds got over Caleb’s dominance faded away, Canelo with all his experience and calmness slowly but steadily started asserting dominance by the 5th round as Canelo took the lead in the fight with a score of 48-47. By the 6th round Canelo started landing heavy body shots on Caleb, these shots were taking a toll on him as it appeared to be that Caleb was hurt. In the 7,8, 9 and 10th round it clearly looked like Caleb wouldn’t be able to last the whole fight but he was showing great skill and determination to stand on his feet. Finally in the 11 round, Canelo lands a thudding left hook which sends him flat on the canvas, surprisingly he beats the count but Canelo saw his opportunity and came for the kill as he dropped relentless punches on him to win the bout by TKO.

With this result the Mexican improved his record to 57-1-2 with 39 KOs in the process. The Mexican superstar is the top pound-for-pound fighter in the world and became the sixth man to be a four-belt champion, and he joined junior welterweight Josh Taylor as the only current undisputed champion. Canelo after conquering the middleweight category might shift weight categories once again to light heavyweight, to maybe set up a clash with Artur Beterbiev, who is the WBC and WCF champion.

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Álvarez says in Spanish through a translator, “I want to thank everybody here tonight. It hasn’t been easy to get to this point. But within your support, my family, my team we’ve gotten really far. This is for everybody, especially from Mexico, it’s another one for our team. We did it tonight. We don’t know. We want a rest. We need the rest we deserve. it means so much to me, for the history of Mexico, to be an undisputed champion,"    

He was making things a little difficult, but [trainer] Eddy [Reynoso] told me, “Let's keep with the game plan in the last two rounds here, and in the end, I got him. That's the way it had to finish. He was already hurt, and I went in for the kill."

Caleb Plant on his Twitter said, "I've bent most of the world to my will and done it with nothing but passion and skill. I'll be back. I showed I belong on the top level and I'll be champion of the world again. I've never been scared to go big or go out on my shield. Thank you to all the fans and all my supporters."