Julio César Chávez, the great Mexican champion, said that Saül Álvarez has the potential to position himself as the best Aztec boxer in history
SANT ANTONI – Many believe that this exercise should be done once he has finished his career, but for the curriculum achieved at the age of 30, canelo Álvarez was consolidated last night in the top ten history of Mexican boxing.
Julio César Chávez, The great Mexican champion, said Saturday night that the tapatío idol has the potential to position himself as the best Aztec boxer in history, but we will only know that in the coming years. Saul became the first Mexican to win three The Ring belts.
Victory over Callum Smith in the Alamodome by way of points with much breadth corroborated that the four-time champion Saul Alvarez he is going through his best moment, even though it could last him another two or three years.
yesterday night, cinnamon it was consecrated like double champion of the Supermedian ones, revalidating the one of the AMB that many did not consider it. It arrived at 9 world-wide titles in his race: Superwelter CMB, AMB and OMB, Medium AMB, CMB and FIB, Supermediate AMB and CMB and Semicomplete OMB.
“From the age of 28 I feel like I’m at my best,” he told ESPN at the end of Saturday’s battle, which he won with a masterful boxing display. His plan is to fight until the age of 35 and that would be sensational to see what his legacy looks like after that.
Nor, there is any doubt about that canelo Álvarez will be a future member of the Hall of Fame. With a lot of effort he has managed to turn around that dramatic fall with Floyd Mayweather of 2013 and today the names of Callum Smith, Gennadiy Golovkin, Sergey Kovalev, Daniel Jacobs and Miguel Cotto, To name a few, are fresher in memory.
There will always be criticism. he called Óscar de la Foia, The first world champion in six different categories, that you will worry about when you have no critics, because that day this was a sign that you were doing things wrong. Canelo is judged above average, and he’s fine, because that has made him grow even more.
Eddy Reynoso took the baton since Saul decided to end his contract with Golden Boy and the first step was solid. We know the passion they both put in boxing and it’s a matter of finding good partners to continue consolidating the race of the jalisciense. There may be some defeats in the future, but it’s part of the risks you run in being at that level. The Chávez, Morales, Olivares, Barrera, Márquez and it was no sin, it should not be if it happens to Canelo.
Mexico can boast that it has the best pound per pound in the world, and when the new generations talk about how we did at the start of this new century, they will surely have Alvarez in the conversation, now let’s see how far he will come, whether to get into the top five, to the top three, or to shake up the sporting world in Mexico and that’s where he gets on Chávez’s footsteps, no matter how daring that may sound.
By the way, it would be nice to know what names they have on their list of the top 10, Julio César Chávez, Érik Morales, Juan Manuel Márquez, Marc Antoni Barrera, Rubén Olivares, Salvador Sánchez, Baby Arizmendi, Ricardo López, Saül Álvarez, Vicente Saldivar, Carlos Zárate, Guadalupe Pintor, Humberto ‘Chiquita’ González, Miguel Cantó and Gilberto Román will surely be in them.