Episode 1469
Canelo Álvarez
Tue, 2021-May-11 02:07 UTC
Length - 2:21
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With 157,736 views on Monday, 10 May 2021 our article of the day is Canelo Álvarez.
Santos Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez Barragán (American Spanish: [saˈul ˈalβaɾes]; born 18 July 1990) is a Mexican professional boxer. 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. Álvarez is currently a unified super middleweight world champion, having held the WBA (Super), WBC, and Ring magazine titles since 2020, and the WBO title since May 2021.
Álvarez is known as an excellent counterpuncher, being able to exploit openings in his opponents' guards while avoiding punches with head and body movement. He is also known as a formidable body puncher. As of May 2021, Álvarez is ranked as the world's best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec; The Ring; the Boxing Writers Association of America and the TBRB; and second by ESPN. He is also ranked as the world's best active super middleweight by BoxRec, The Ring, TBRB, and ESPN.
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