Fame, fortune, luxury and to some extent eccentricities, all this has been going on for years Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez as one of the highest paid athletes in the world, but for the Guadalajara, that kind of life isn’t without paying a price, while those who envy him from the outside can go nuts with a minimal slice of that cake.
With a contract signed for 11 fights and $ 365 million in 2018, Canelo belongs to the sporting economic elite with the likes of Floyd Mayweather, Mike Trout and Patrick Mahomes, but that doesn’t cloud him every night to thank God for the blessings he receives for being the best at what he does.
“I’ve always taken refuge with my family, especially my oldest daughter, thinking ‘What will he say about me if I do this?’ Every night I pray and thank God for what I have, I say that at some point I haven’t returned crazy, but it was a matter of seconds. Many would have gone crazy with just 5% of what I have because it is too much“said the hunter to Javier Alarcón.
Canelo confesses that he wanted to become an F1 driver
He is the most recognized Mexican boxer today, but our country could go without him Canelo in boxing to have pursued his own first dream from childhood, that was be a Formula 1 driveralthough economic shortages at the time prevented him from pursuing that goal.
“My dream was to buy a house and own a Ferrari. As a child he said he wanted to be a Formula 1 driverI dreamed it but with what money because for that you need a lot of support and in my city or how to find it. I would have found something to dedicate myself to, maybe I would have set up many ice cream parlors in Mexico, ”he confessed.
Canelo was bullied for freckles
Today there is no human being on earth who in his right mind makes fun of the Canelo on his face, but as a child it was different because was bullied because of his appearance, something that partly brought him into contact with the sport of fists.
“It was great as a kid, but I was always very serious and calm, I got this way because I was the other in school because I was redhead and had frecklesThat cheek and teasing embarrassed me, ”he recalled.
I didn’t know boxing and he had been fighting me all the time at school or on the streetI had to defend myself from being teased because of my appearance, I was very brave and there wasn’t a day I didn’t fight. Other times he stopped a friend, I really liked fighting in the street and they respected me for being very good as a child. “