These are the millionaire fights that Canelo Álvarez has had in his career

Fighting with Gennady Golovkin meant reaching the lucrative peak for Saúl “Money” Álvarez, but before that he was already developing his culminating moment. Now he promotes himself and generates more greenbacks

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A Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez nobody has given him anything, he literally had to fall to blows with his life – and many boxers – to have the fortune that he boasts today: $ 140 approximately millions of dollars, according to Forbes. And he doesn’t stop, he seems to want more.

Since his battle with Floyd Mayweather, the story for the Mexican boxer has changed for the better. The night of 12 September 2013 meant the first defeat for Saul (42 – 1-1), but it was the appetizer to become the new face of money in the boxing industry .

He received $ 12 million in the lawsuit against Mayweather, while the winner took $ 41 approximately millions. Then they arrived 20 fights after losing with “Money” and the average of millions per fight was close to $ 30 millions.

His best generation of money was made against Kazakh Gennady Golovkin, against whom he tied in the first fight and won the second by majority decision. Two controversial fights because many dared to say that Golovkin won both. Especially the first. Between the two fights, Canelo added approximately $ 100 millions of dollars.

Rivals, dates and earnings in the matches for Canelo

Floyd Mayweather (September 2013): $ 12 million

Miguel Cotto (November 2015): $ 5 million

Amir Khan (May 2016): $ 25 million

Gennady Golovkin (September 2017): $ 40 million

Gennady Golovkin (September 2018): $ 30 million + plus total earnings amounted to $ 42 approximately million.

Rocky Fielding (December 2018): $ 33 millions

Sergey Kovalev (November 2019) : $ 35 million

Daniel Jacobs (May 2018): $ 33 million

Callum Smith (December 2020): $ 20 millions

Avni Yildirim (February 2021): $ 33 million

Billy Joe Saunders (May 2021): $ 35 millions