![]() ![]() On 6 March 2010, he got a crushing third-round KO over Brian Camechis in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. The other four more experienced brothers won. The only downside was that three of them failed to win their pro debuts. He also made world history on that fight card when he and all six of his brothers fought on the same night, with Canelo being the youngest. On 28 June 2008, Álvarez defeated Vázquez again in a rematch. Álvarez's third official bout of his career was a win over future IBF lightweight champion Miguel Vázquez on 20 January 2006, in his home town of Guadalajara, Jalisco. His weight fluctuated in his three years as a professional including two documented fights within the light welterweight limit of 140 lbs before he settled in the welterweight division at 147 lbs. This means that his actual record is 67–2–2 with 49 knockouts. However, the elder Reynoso stated in 2013 that Álvarez had fought ten more times in that span, winning all ten by knockout (KO), but that these fights (all in small venues in the Mexican state of Nayarit) were so poorly documented that it was not worth the trouble to seek to have the record corrected. In his first 19 months as a professional, he knocked out eleven of his 13 documented opponents, all of whom were significantly older. Álvarez turned professional at 15, shortly after his championship at the Junior Nationals, because his trainers at the time, father-and-son team Chepo and Eddy Reynoso, were unable to find suitable junior opponents for him. His amateur record was 44–2 with 12 knockouts. He became the 2005 Junior Mexican National Boxing Champion in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, at the age of 15. In 2004, he won the silver medal at the Junior Mexican National Championships, held in Sinaloa. Álvarez started boxing when he was around 13 years old, after watching his older brother Rigoberto debut as a professional boxer. ![]() He was bullied at an early age when he would be called "Jícama con Chile", which translates as jicama with chilli flakes – a popular snack in Mexico. Speaking about his ancestry, Álvarez once said, "There might have been an Irish grandfather somewhere back in my past." In Mexico, it is common for people to associate red hair with the Irish soldiers who fought for Mexico in the Saint Patrick's Battalion during the Mexican–American War. His mother, Ana Maria, also has red hair. Ĭanelo in Spanish is the masculine word for cinnamon, which is a common nickname for people with red hair. Among his brothers are welterweight boxers Ramón Álvarez, Ricardo Álvarez and former WBA interim world champion, Rigoberto Álvarez. Álvarez is the youngest of eight children, seven of them boys all of his brothers also became professional boxers. Growing up on his family's farm, he learned horseback riding, which he continues today. At the age of five, his family moved to their current home of Juanacatlán, Jalisco. ![]() In an interview, Álvarez explained that he was born on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Jalisco, but his family is originally from Los Reyes, Michoacán. He is also ranked as the world's best active super middleweight by BoxRec, The Ring, TBRB, and ESPN. As of May 2022, Álvarez is ranked as the world's best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec and the Boxing Writers Association of America, fourth by ESPN, fifth by the TBRB, and sixth by The Ring. He is also known as a formidable body puncher. Álvarez is known as an excellent counterpuncher, being able to exploit openings in his opponents' guards while avoiding punches with head and body movement. Álvarez is the first and only boxer in history to become undisputed champion at super middleweight, having held the WBA (Super), WBC and Ring magazine titles since 2020, and the IBF and WBO titles since 2021. He has won multiple world championships in four weight classes from light middleweight to light heavyweight, including unified titles in three of those weight classes and lineal titles in two. Santos Saúl " Canelo" Álvarez Barragán ( American Spanish: born 18 July 1990) is a Mexican professional boxer. ![]()
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