Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez

Canelo

Having spent more than half his life as a professional, Canelo is firmly placed as boxing's Pound for Pound king and is cementing his legacy as one of the true Mexican greats.

Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez is a Mexican professional boxer who is a four-division world champion and currently holds the WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO and Ring Magazine super middleweight titles.

Known for his counterpunching and lethal body shots, Canelo won his first world title with victory over Matthew Hatton - younger brother of Ricky - in 2011 at junior middleweight.
Successful defences followed with his best win coming against "Sugar" Shane Mosley. Canelo outpointed Puerto Rican legend Miguel Cotto to win his second world title at middleweight.

Canelo signed an 11-fight, $365million deal with DAZN - boxing's most lucrative deal, although he negotiated his release from the deal after three fights to become a free agent.

His first fight on DAZN saw Canelo become a three-division world champion by beating England's Rocky Fielding at Madison Square Garden in 2018 for the WBA 'regular' super middleweight title.
Canelo would move back down in his next fight to unify the middleweight division against Daniel Jacobs in Cinco de Mayo in May 2019.
In November 2019, the 30-year-old become just the second Mexican fighter to win a world title at light heavyweight after knocking out Sergey Kovelev in spectacular fashion.
In December 2020, he beat British fighter Callum Smith to win the WBA (super), The Ring and vacant WBC super-middleweight titles, and retain those straps two months later by retiring Anvi Yidirim in the third round.
Canelo added the WBO belt to his collection after beating the previously undefeated two-weight world champion Billy Joe Saunders in May 2021.
A record crowd (73,126) for an indoor boxing event in the US saw Canelo force Saunders to retire at the end of the eighth round, after suffering multiple fractures to his eye socket. Saunders hasn't fought since.
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