Julio César Chávez, the great Mexican champion, said Saúl Álvarez has the potential to position himself as the best Aztec fighter in history.
SAN ANTONIO – Many believe this exercise should be done as soon as he gets his degree, but because of the resume he got in his 30s, Canelo Alvarez was consolidated into Mexican boxing’s historic top ten last night.
Julio Cesar Chavez, the great Mexican champion, said Saturday night that the Guadalajara idol has the potential to position itself as the best Aztec fighter in history, but we won’t know for years to come. Saúl he became the first Mexican to win three The Ring belts.
Victory Callum Smith in the Alamodome through the large amplitude points confirmed the four-time champion Saul Alvarez he is going through his prime, which could be another two or three years.
Last night, Canelo he was inaugurated as the Supermedians’ double champion, reaffirming those of the WBA that many did not consider him. He achieved 9 world titles in his career: Superwelter CMB, AMB and OMB, Medium AMB, CMB and FIB, Supermediate AMB and CMB and Semicomplete OMB.
“Since I was 28 years old, I feel like I’m at my best,” he told ESPN at the end of Saturday’s fight, which he won with a masterly boxing screen. His plan is to fight until he’s 35 and that would be great to see what his legacy looks like after that.
There is no doubt about that either Canelo Alvarez he will be a future member of the Hall of Fame. With a lot of effort he managed to catch that sounding fall with Floyd Mayweather of 2013 and the names of today. Callum Smith, Gennadiy Golovkin, Sergey Kovalev, Daniel Jacobs and Miguel CottoJust to name a few, they are fresher in the memory.
There will always be criticism. He said Oscar de la hoya, the first world champion in six different categories, that you’d be concerned if you didn’t have critics because that day was a sign that you were doing things wrong. Canelo is rated above average, and that’s okay, because that has made him grow even more.
Eddy Reynoso He’s been in charge since Saul decided to end his contract with Golden Boy and the first step was solid. We know the passion that both put into boxing and it is a matter of finding good partners so that Jalisco’s career can be further consolidated. There may be some losses in the future, but it is part of the risks involved at this level. Los Chávez, Morales, Olivares, Barrera, Márquez and it wasn’t a sin, and it shouldn’t be when it happens to Canelo.
Mexico can boast that it has the best pound for pound in the world, and when the new generations talk about what it was like at the start of this new century, they will definitely have Alvarez in the talk, now we’ll see how far he will get , as needed. get into the top five, the best three, or to shake up the sports world in Mexico and beyond that, he’ll be on par with Chávez, however daring this may sound.
Besides, it would be nice to know what names they have on their top 10 list, Julio César Chávez, Érik Morales, Juan Manuel Márquez, Marco Antonio Barrera, Rubén Olivares, Salvador Sánchez, Baby Arizmendi, Ricardo López, Saúl Álvarez, Vicente Saldivar, Carlos Zárate, Guadalupe Pintor, Humberto ‘Chiquita’ Miguel González and Gilberto Roman will certainly be in them.