Canelo Alvarez is likely one of the most adorned fighters in boxing.
The 34-year-old from Guadalajara, Mexico has received world titles in 4 weight divisions, in addition to the undisputed tremendous middleweight championship, which he received in November 2021 and held for 3 years, defending towards the likes of Gennady Golovkin, Jermell Charlo and Jaime Munguia.
Canelo nonetheless holds three of the 4 world titles at 168lbs, making the newest profitable defence of his WBC, WBA and WBO titles towards the beforehand undefeated Edgar Berlanga Jr on September 14 in Las Vegas.
The Mexican icon has misplaced simply twice in his 66 battle profession, struggling defeats to Floyd Mayweather Jr and Dmitry Bivol in 2013 and 2022 respectively.
Talking to FightHub TV, Canelo was requested to disclose which bout was essentially the most tough between Mayweather and Bivol, the place he claimed the dimensions of the Russian mild heavyweight star made the distinction.
“I believe each are related, simply Bivol is larger so I believe Bivol.”
The 34-year-old stepped as much as 175lbs for the second time to face Bivol in Might 2022, after beforehand difficult Sergey Kovalev for the WBO mild heavyweight title the place he acquired the stoppage victory over ‘Krusher’ within the eleventh spherical of their battle in 2019.
Regardless of the perfect efforts of Canelo, the dimensions, energy and work fee of Bivol proved to be an excessive amount of for the naturally smaller man, as he turned solely the second fighter to defeat the Mexican celebrity in a unanimous factors victory.
The 34-year-old Russian is getting ready to rematch Artur Beterbiev on February 22, after he fell quick to his 175lb rival in October. Bivol can be eager on getting revenge over Beterbiev, as he appears to change into the undisputed heavyweight champion on the second time of asking.