By Allan Fox: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (40-0-1, 29 KO’s) revealed recently that he wanted to fight former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez next but his team said no to the idea.
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!
Alvarez-Lopez: Golden Boy needs to take the training wheels off of Canelo after this fight
By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (40-0-1, 29 KO’s) is a belt holder, but his promoters at Golden Boy Promotions has brought him along in the past year like he’s a prospect by matching him against weaker, smaller or older fighters well past their prime.
Team Cotto: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Tim Bradley are the leading candidates to face Cotto on December 1st
By Dan Ambrose: Team Cotto are looking at matching Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KO’s) against either WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (29-0, 12 KO’s) for WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (40-0-1, 29 KO’s) next on December 1st at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Canelo to get big December fight if he gets past Josesito Lopez on September 15th
By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo Alvarez (40-0-1, 29 KO’s) is poised to get a big money pay-per-view fight in December against possibly Floyd Mayweather Jr. or Miguel Cotto if the 22-year-old Alvarez gets past his next opponent WBC Silver welterweight champion Josesito Lopez (30-4, 18 KO’s) on September 15th on Showtime at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Shouldn’t Canelo Alvarez be facing a top 10 ranked 154 pound contender rather than Lopez?
(Photo: Golden Boy Promotions, Ramiro Gonzalez, German Villasenor) By Dan Ambrose: It’s more than a little off putting to see how WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (40-0-1, 29 KO’s) is being allowed by the World Boxing Council to face a fighter that’s not even ranked in the top 15 in the 154 pound division in Josesito Lopez (30-4, 18 KO’s) on September 15th rather than an actual contender that’s worked hard to try and get a title shot.
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez turns 22 today!
(Photo credit: Golden Boy Promotions, GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS, Ramiro Gonzalez, German Villasenor) By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (40-0-1, 29 KO’s) turned 22-years-old today as he prepares for his September 15th title defense against Golden Boy Promotions picked opponent Josesito Lopez (30-4, 18 KO’s) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Josesito Lopez: Canelo Alvarez will be easy to find in the ring; I can take his punches
(Photo credit: Golden Boy Promotions, GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS, Ramiro Gonzalez, German Villasenor) By Dan Ambrose: The way that WBC Silver welterweight champion Josesito Lopez (30-4, 18 KO’s) tells it, he won’t have any problems having to hunt down WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (40-0-1, 29 KO’s) on September 15th, because Alvarez will be right there for him to land his shots in this Showtime televised bout.
De La Hoya says “Look at what Pacquiao did to me – he destroyed me”, in hyping Alvarez-Lopez fight
By Dan Ambrose: Just to show you how desperate Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya has become to try and get boxing fans excited about the September 15th mismatch between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez and the slender light welterweight Josesito Lopez that has been hand-picked by Golden Boy, De La Hoya has resorted to bringing up how he was thrashed by the much smaller Manny Pacquiao back in 2008 to show that size doesn’t matter. Unfortunately it does matter.
Schaefer: Josesito Lopez has earned the right to fight Canelo Alvarez
By Dan Ambrose: While a lot of boxing fans are turned off by the idea of Golden Boy Promotions deciding to match light welterweight Josesito Lopez (30-4, 18 KO’s) up against WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (40-0-1, 29 KO’s) on September 15th, Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer is perfectly fine with the fight, and he feels Lopez deserves to be in with Alvarez despite the fact that Lopez is basically just a 140 pound fighter being asked to move up two entire divisions to make fight happen.
Maidana-Soto Karass on 8/15 on Canelo-Lopez undercard
By Dan Ambrose: A fight between Marcos Maidana (31-3, 28 KO’s) and former welterweight contender Jesus-Soto Karass (26-7-3, 17 KO’s has been added to the Golden Boy Promotions undercard of the September 15th fight headlined by WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez vs. light welterweight Josesito Lopez at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.