Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez has been combating since his teenage years and now the adorned pound-for-pound star has named who he says is his favorite boxer of all time.
Alvarez, now aged 33, isn’t solely a multi-weight world champion however can be broadly considered one of many best boxers of his period. To his followers worldwide, he preaches ‘No boxing, no life’ which conveys simply how a lot he love the game.
All through his 20-year profession, Alvarez has witnessed quite a few elites grace the worldwide stage and has fought a lot of them, from Floyd Mayweather to Dmitry Bivol.
These two males are the one ones to have crushed Canelo, whereas he has fought and defeated huge modern names like Callum Smith, Billy Joe Saunders, Danny Jacobs, and John Ryder.
He after all additionally had a well-known and high-level trilogy with Kazakhstan’s middleweight wrecking ball Gennady Golovkin, who he, some say, fairly controversially beat in shut contests which can be a number of the finest in recent times.
Up to now, ‘Canelo’ has referenced a number of fighters that he enjoys together with Teofimo Lopez, Vasyl Lomachenko, Terence Crawford and Ryan Garcia. Apparently, Alvarez appears to have a penchant for light-weight and welterweight boxers, and those that exhibit nice technical expertise within the ring.
Now, chatting with DAZN, he has been requested about who he charges essentially the most out of any boxer of all time.
“My favorite boxer is Muhammad Ali.”
Canelo himself is now deep in camp for his subsequent combat on his conventional Cinco De Mayo combat date. He’s at present the undisputed tremendous middleweight world champion with all 4 belts the IBF, WBC, WBO and WBA in his possession.
He defends these titles on Might 4 in Las Vegas towards fellow Mexican Jaime Munguia who additionally not too long ago fought John Ryder however managed to knock him down and cease him, whereas Canelo managed solely a factors win.
On the first weigh-in, followers famous the massive dimension distinction between Munguia and the smaller Canelo, although Canelo is used to combating greater males having moved as much as gentle heavyweight and had success towards Sergey Kovalev to win a world title.
With a plethora of titles in 4 weight courses and headlining quite a few pay-per-view occasions which have raked in tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}, the Mexican sensation has undoubtedly cemented his place among the many elite within the sport of boxing and this newest defence is one other probability to safe that legacy.
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