Champion in four different divisions after shaking Callum Smith Last December 19th Saúl „Canelo” Álvarez adds merit to place among the best Mexican boxers in history, while big rivals like Billy Joe Saunders, Edgar berlanga A Demetrius Andrade They are waiting their turn to fight him, aware that he can be a catapult for starry planes in boxing and large luggage.
Constantly rated as “The best pound for pounds in the world”, tapatío today you have the luxury of analyzing your options and see who best suits their needs, always with the idea of consolidating their status, something in contrast to what they had to live in the beginning, where their boldness it brought him criticism and contempt, being very reminiscent of the friction he had Juan Manuel Marquez, a legend to which challenged, but was always refused.
How did the rivalry between Márquez and Canelo come about?
In 2011, before his the fight against Matthew Hatton World Boxing Council (WBC) super welterweight category “El Dinamita” Márquez wondered why the body dared to hold that match, despite the fact that the English “I was not among the top ten evaluated”, which caused a exchange of statements which ended up putting the 20-year-old in his place.
“I put myself in the shoes of those classified at that “super welterweight” weight and I know the effort they put in to be in the top ten and It seems absurd to me that “Canelo” will fight someone who is not. It makes me illogical that another boxer from another category arrives in Europe and can contest the title, having the one positioned as the number four available “, said Márquez on the program” Tribunal Televisa Deportes “.
Canelo launched the challenge, Dynamite did not want to
Canelo, smart, took advantage of the criticism of the dynamite to launch a challenge to prove your ability, although his answer left him in a bad way. Being in different divisions It was an argument that weighed heavily in a discussion that took place live on the “Show de Piolín” signal, a popular radio program for Spanish-speaking audiences in the United States.
“If he doesn’t believe in my abilities, I’d like him to dispel his doubts,” he went up to fight Mayweather. Why can’t he come and fight me? “, Canelo, to which Márquez replied: “At this point in my career we are not looking for something that cannot be. I’m getting fat, maybe, to fight Manny Pacquiao, if I risk to be for something good and we will take a step forward ”.
The meeting never took place, despite the fact that Mauricio Sulaimán and Óscar de la Hoya mediated for Canelo, then a young man who wanted to eat big boxing, a category he would reach almost a decade later.
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