Canelo Alvarez<\/a>, en route to losing via unanimous decision.<\/p>\nBut the fight came at a cost, as the warrior believes it took a lot out of him.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Boxing Scene, he said: \u201cI think physically, at the time, I felt like I was going to be so much better for the experience. I think the experience at 25 would have been fantastic for me; the experience at 35 was not so good.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was tough on the body. We age for a reason, don\u2019t we? And I\u2019ve got a lot of miles on the clock, and I think that that last hurrah with Canelo was just probably one step too far. A lot of people say to me, \u2018Why did you get up after the fifth [when he was knocked down]?\u2019 and it was something in me, the will to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can forever be called a quitter in this sport, and it forever tarnishes your reputation. Moving forward, as a trainer, there was never that bit of quit in me, but there\u2019s also that [knowledge] to save and just to fight another day, which might have been a sensible thing to do. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut I stayed in there, took some stick, took some punishment and went on to fight another day \u2013 but was well past my best.\u201d<\/p>\n
Canelo Alvarez scored controversial TKO against fighter discovered by Sylvester Stallone<\/p>\n
While Ryder lasted the distance against Canelo, most haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n
However, one talented competitor was left furious that he didn\u2019t have his chance to continue fighting against the superstar.<\/p>\n
In a shocking moment, Canelo bagged a divisive stoppage against a boxer discovered by Sylvester Stallone<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez rival concedes that fighting the Mexican was very tough on his body. The pound-for-pound superstar is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,9554,33351,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-109851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-canelo-alvarez","10":"tag-john-ryder","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Photo by Ed Mulholland\/Golden Boy\/Golden Boy via Getty ImagesJohn Ryder says he wasn\u2019t the same after fighting Canelo Alvarez<\/p>\n