The Mexican and the undefeated Englishman scored 168 pounds each prior to their fight for the CMB and AMB Superpluma titles.
The fight between the Mexican Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and the English undefeated Callum Smith it is official.
This Friday morning both boxers marked the 168 prescribed pounds for their fight by the supermediate scepter of the AMB and the vacancy of the CMB at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
This fight marks the return of ‘Canelo’ Alvarez to the weight Supermediano after venturing in the division of the Semicompletos, where it undressed of the belt to the Russian Sergey Kovalev, in addition is his first fight of year 2020 after a year that was marked by a legal battle out of the quadrangle against Golden Boy Promotions.
‘Canelo’ Alvarez comes with a 53-1-2 record with 36 knockouts, two of them in their last three fights.
The Briton is presented with a perfect 27-0 record, 19 of them on the fast track and also fights for the first time in 2020, his last fight was in November 2019 when he defeated by unanimous decision John Ryder for retain the World Boxing Association Supermediate title.
‘Canelo’ Alvarez is one of five Mexican fighters in history with titles in four different divisions, alongside Juan Manuel ‘Dinamita’ Márquez, Jorge ‘Travieso’ Arce, Érik ‘Terrible’ Morales and Leo ‘Earthquake’ Santa Cruz.
Since his only professional loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2013, ‘Canelo’ Alvarez it has mark 11-0-1 with six knockouts and in fights of world-wide championship it presumes a 14-1-1 cock (with eight chloroforms).
per Callum Smith this is his third belt defense he won in 2018 after defeating George Groves.
‘Canelo’ Alvarez has a favorable history fighting in Texas and also has experience at the Alamodome, where he unanimously defeated Austin Trout in 2013.
In 2015 he knocked out James Kirkland in three rounds at Houston’s Minute Maid Park and his most recent victory was over Britain’s Liam Smith by knockout in nine rounds to win the World Boxing Organization’s middleweight title.