SAME AGAIN: Cancio knocks out Machado for the second time this year
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IF you carefully read between the lines there was more at stake than Alberto Machado attempting to regain his secondary WBA superfeatherweight belt from Andrew Cancio. It gave us an insight into how we might expect Anthony Joshua to fare when he rematches with the man who relieved him of his heavyweight titles, Andy Ruiz, because the situations of the four are eerily similar.
Last February, Cancio was considered a no-hoper against unbeaten champion Machado, much like Ruiz was with Joshua. Both underdogs were expected to offer some resistance but be stopped in the early to middle rounds. Even that appeared to be optimistic thinking once the matches began when Cancio was dropped and hurt in the first round, Ruiz in the third.