In a fight that could have ended his career had he lost, Mundine was far too hungry, coming out strongly before using his quick left jab to take control of the fight.
From the beginning it was Mundine who came out firing, claiming honours in the first round before Alvarez awoke and fired back with a series of body blows to take the second. Alvarez momentarily wrested back momentum in the sixth but it was Mundine who came home the more powerful.
Two judges had 'The Man' winning comfortably 1117-111 while the third scored a tighter fight, 114-113.
"I produced something a lot of people didn't think I could," Mundine said after the fight.
"Sorry there wasn't a knockout. I was going for it."
Mundine is now expected to fight Trout sometime early next year, with the WBA champion revealing this week that US network HBO was keen to broadcast a bout between himself and Mundine. Trout must first overcome Australian light middleweight Frank LoPorto (15-4-2) on November 11.
"Bring on that sucker. He was talking crap about me, saying this, saying that ... so bring it on Austin," Mundine said.
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