Alvarez stops Gomez, keeps WBC light middle title

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Saul "Canelo" Alvarez kept his WBC light middleweight title belt by stopping Alfonso Gomez at 2:36 of the sixth round Saturday.

Alvarez (38-0-1, 28 KOs) started and finished strongly in a Los Angeles bout that was held as a two-city undercard for television viewers before the Floyd Mayweather-Victor Ortiz bout.

Alvarez knocked down Gomez …