Saúl “Canelo Álvarez is the current master and lord of the 168 pounds by unifying the three super middleweight titles from the world’s leading boxing organizations. His battle against Billy Joe Saunders ended up screwing him over the top and he’s considered the best pound-for-pound today.
And he still feels like he could fix everything to get back in the ring this year and have another match at the same weight. He has already walked through the category and in 2022 new challenges would come to his career of 15 years.
Eddie Hearn, promoter of the fighter from Guadalajara, raised the possibility of seeing Canelo in 175 pounds (79. 38 kg) in the next months. This is to try to reign in a weight that he already dominated long ago.
“I think once you’ve done that (three-time champion in 168), you’ve made another piece of history. ; What do you do then? Do you go up to 175? Well, of course, he already beat Sergey Kovalev at that weight to win the world title. I don’t see him regress to middleweight, but he loves a challenge, ”were Hearn’s words to Sky Sports .
As Hearn said, Canelo faced Kovalev on November 2, 2019 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. He won the light heavyweight title by way of the KO.
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