Canelo Alvarez

Santos Saul Álvarez Barragán, better known as Canelo, which translates to ‘cinnamon’ for his fiery red hair, has spiced up the boxing scene since his debut. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1990, this pugilist has clinched world championships across four weight divisions, making him a staple in the Hall of Fame pantry. Canelo unified titles in three divisions and claimed lineal championships in two, notably overpowering Miguel Cotto in 2015 for the WBC, Ring, and lineal middleweight crowns. Outside the ring, Canelo’s life is just as sweet, sharing it with his two kids, Emily Cinnamon Alvarez and Mía Ener Álvarez, and his wife, Fernanda Gómez, since 2021. According to Forbes, Canelo is worth at least $275 million!

Canelo wins the fight, but Trout wins the fans

04/21/201304/21/2013 by MaskedIntruder

004 Canelo vs Trout victory IMG_4398 (Photo credit: Tom Casino/SHOWTIME) By Albert Adame: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0, 30 KO’s) and WBC junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s) put on a great show tonight. Trout took Canelo to school early, and arguably throughout the fight. Canelo couldn’t find a way in, and simply could not adapt to Trout’s longer reach. Trout’s movement was slick, and his jab was even slicker. He fought a highly intelligent fight the way you would expect a boxer to do so. But of course, tonight was destined to end in some kind of controversy.

Early in the fight Trout bombarded Canelo’s body with combinations, and clearly got the better of Canelo. By the 5th round Saul was slow, and gassed out while Trout continued to pressure the young Mexican star with combination after combination. This is where things get tricky. Trout threw numerous combinations, but actually connected with few. With each 5 blows Trout threw, he only connected with maybe about 2, while Canelo only connected with 1.

Trout deserves a rematch with Canelo

04/21/201304/21/2013 by Boxing News

(Photo credit: Tom Casino/SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: Given how controversial tonight’s 12 round unanimous decision win was for WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) over WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s), I think it’s best that there be an immediate rematch in a neutral venue outside of Texas with a completely new set of judges this time.

Tonight’s result is too controversial and you can see that by reading the comment section and the internet forums. Canelo can’t move on from this fight without being followed by his tainted win, which will follow him like the scent of a smelly skunk. Boxing fans won’t forget Canelo’s bogus win and he’ll be seen by a lot of fans a fake if he doesn’t fight Trout again to clear up the controversy.

Canelo out-boxed by Trout tonight but still wins controversial decision

04/21/201304/20/2013 by Boxing News

(Tom Casino/SHOWTIME) By Scott Gilfoid: I just saw tonight’s fight and I’ve got to say that WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s) got royally screwed over by the judges in Texas in losing a 12 round unanimous decision to WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) at the Alamodome in San Antonio.

I know there’s a saying that you have to consider a visiting fighter four rounds down at the start of the fight against a home fighter, and there was never more true than tonight with Trout getting jobbed in Texas. I thought Trout clearly out-boxed Canelo and won what should have been an easy 12 round unanimous decision.

Canelo decisions Trout in robbery of the century in Texas

04/21/201304/20/2013 by Boxing News

(Photo credit: Tom Casino/SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: In a clear robbery, WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) defeated WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s) by a very controversial 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The final judges scores were 115-112, 116-111 and 118-109. The last scores were an absolute crime. I had Trout winning the fight 10 rounds to 2.

Canelo knocked Trout down in the 7th round with a right hand at the start of the round. However, Trout came back to dominate the remainder of the round and the rest of the fight. Trout appeared to sweep rounds eight through twelve to easily win the fight, but of course the fight was held in Texas, so it’s not surprising that Canelo got the win.

39,247 fans in attendance for Canelo-Trout tonight

04/20/2013 by Boxing News

(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Allan Fox: 39,247 boxing fans are in attendance to tonight’s unification bout between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) and WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The arena can hold 70,000 but it was retrofitted to fit 40,000 fans.

The winner of tonight’s fight could end up facing Floyd Mayweather Jr. in September depending on what happens in Mayweather’s fight next month against Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero on May 4th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. There’s going to be a tremendous amount of pressure on the winner of the Mayweather-Guerrero fight to face the Canelo-Trout winner because it’s the logical next fight.

Trout’s team unhappy with the sponginess of the ring during pre-fight inspection

04/20/2013 by Boxing News

(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: The team of WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout were reportedly unhappy with the sponginess of the ring mat during the pre-fight inspection for his fight against WBC junior middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez tonight at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. According to LA Times writer Lance Pugmore, they said the canvas was “like running in quicksand.”

Making the canvas spongy is an old trick that the home teams use to slow down a visiting a fighter that moves a lot in order to make him slower so that the flat-footed fighter can catch up to him. So is this was Canelo’s team have done for this fight against Trout? Who knows? But it is clear that Trout is the fighter that depends on movement to win his fights and he IS the visiting fighter for this bout, and Canelo IS the slower, flat-footed fighter that needs the action to be slow in order for him to win the fight.

Fury was behind on the scorecards at the time of his stoppage of Cunningham

04/21/201304/20/2013 by Boxing News

fury1 By Scott Gilfoid: Boxing fans will be interested to know that unbeaten heavyweight contender Tyson Fury (21-0, 15 KO’s) was behind on two of the judges’ scorecards tonight in tied on the third at the time he halted the smaller Steve Cunningham (25-6, 12 KO’s) in the 7th round at Madison Square Garden in New York. Two judges had Cunningham up 57-55, while the third had it 56-56.

Fury didn’t prove that he’s a better fighter tonight than Cunningham. The only thing he proved was that he’s the bigger fighter. Fury was knocked down in the 2nd and getting the worst of it until he was able to use his huge 44 pound weight advantage to manhandle Cunningham from the 5th round on. Fury really roughed Cunningham up from the 5th round, and even lost a point in the 5th for head-butting him.

Canelo’s trainer predicts KO win over Trout tonight

04/20/2013 by Boxing News

(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: Jose “Chepo” Reynoso, the trainer for WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) is predicting a knockout win for his fighter tonight at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas in his fight with WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s).

Reynoso told ESPN “We’re going to win by knockout. We’re very confident.”

Having seen how slow Canelo’s fighting style is in his past fights, it’s hard to imagine him stepping it up in a high enough gear to get a stoppage win over an actual junior middleweight like Trout.

Canelo couldn’t knock Shane Mosley, Matthew Hatton and Lovemore Ndou, and he barely stopped Ryan Rhodes in the 12th round. Canelo was struggling against Alfonso Gomez and seemed stuck in first gear. Canelo doesn’t see capable of putting out a lot energy needed to score a stoppage because he’s too busy conserving energy for some reason.

I can understand why he fights at a slow pace because just looking at how heavily he breaths in between rounds and how red his face gets when he exerts himself, it seems pretty obvious that he doesn’t possess the cardiovascular system to go all out round after round to score a stoppage over a fighter like Trout.

Will a win over Trout make Saul Alvarez a pound 4 pound star?

04/20/2013 by Boxing News

(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Paul Havey: For so long the best have avoided the best. Prospects have taken the easiest possible route to a title. Champions sign to face opponents that pose very little threat to them. it’s not been a scenario that attracts new fans. but tonight that all changes.

So why is Alvarez vs Trout any different to all the other fights? Risk and competition. It’s not a case of one having a huge talent over the other. No fight is truly 50/50, but this is as close as it gets. It’s a genuine competition. Both fighters are risking a lot. Many champions fight boxers that won’t win. They know it and so do the fans. Both are at the top of their game and a defeat could be handed to either one. This is the kind of fight that will bring new fans to boxing. and if you aren’t excited, you should be.

Trout is coming off a win against Miguel Cotto. We all expected this fight to be Cotto vs Alvarez. Trout threw a spanner in the works and out classed the man ranked 3rd in the ppv rankings. Trout will have confidence right now. he is the more tactical boxer that will have a clear game plan.

Canelo-Trout: Will Austin pluck Golden Boy’s Golden Goose tonight?

04/20/2013 by Boxing News

(Photo Credit: Stephanie Trapp / SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: It goes without saying that Golden Boy Promotions wanted no part of matching their “Golden Goose” WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) against unbeaten WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s). Golden Boy wants to make a huge pay per view star out of Canelo and they’ve matched him against weaker opponents to make him look good. Trout could ruin their big plans of making Canelo a Golden egg laying Golden Goose.

The fight was made anyway after Canelo chose to accept the challenge rather than being branded as a ducker by many in the boxing community. However, Trout may end up causing Canelo to regret his decision in fighting him by giving him a one-sided beating and plucking Golden Boy’s Golden Goose in front of a nationwide audience in the U.S on Showtime.