Fame, wealth, luxuries and to some extent eccentricities, all these have accompanied for years until Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez as one of the highest paid athletes on the planet, but for Guadalajara this type of life does not come without a price to pay, while those who envy it from the outside could go crazy with a minimal slice of cake.
With a contract signed for 11 fights and $ 365 million in 2018, Canelo is in the sports economic elite along with Floyd Mayweather, Mike Trout and Patrick Mahomes, but that doesn’t cloud him every night to thank God for the blessings he receives for being the best at what he does.
“I’ve always taken refuge in my family, especially my eldest daughter, thinking, ‘What will he say about me if I do that?’ “Every night I pray and thank God for what I have, I’m not saying that at one point they didn’t go crazy, but it was a matter of a few seconds. Many would be crazy about only 5% of what I have, because it is too much“, commented Javier Alarcón’s fighter.
Canelo confesses that he wanted to be an F1 driver
He is the most recognized Mexican boxer today, but our country could be without him Canelo in boxing after watching his own first dream from childhood, which was be a Formula 1 driver, although the economic downturn at the time prevented him from pursuing this goal.
“My dream was to buy a house and own a Ferrari. As a child, he said he wanted to be a Formula 1 driverI dreamed of it, but with what money, because you need a lot of support for that in my city or how to find it. I would have found something to do with, maybe I would have put a lot of ice cream in Mexico “, he confessed.
Canelo was assaulted by freckles
Today there is no man on the face of the Earth who, in his right mind, would dare to make fun of Canelo on the face, but in childhood it was different because he was assaulted because of his physical appearance, something that partially introduced him to the sport of fists.
“It simply came to our notice then I was always very serious and calm, I became like that because at school I was different because I was red and freckledThat cheek and teasing made me shy, ”he recalled.
“I didn’t know boxing and he was already fighting with me all the time at school or on the streetI had to defend myself from being teased because of my appearance, I was very brave and there was not a day that I didn’t fight. Sometimes it would stop a friend, I really enjoyed fighting on the street and they respected me because I was very good as a child. “
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