Fame, fortune, luxuries and to some extent eccentricities, all this has accompanied for years a Saul “Canelo” Alvarez as one of the highest paid athletes on the planetBut for tapatío this kind of life does not come without a price to pay, while those who envy him from the outside could go crazy with a minimal cut of this cake.
With a contract signed for 11 fights and $ 365 million in 2018, Canelo is in the sports economic elite with people like Floyd Mayweather, Mike Trout and Patrick Muhammad, but that doesn’t cloud him for every night thanking God for the blessings he gets for being the best at what he does.
“I’ve always taken refuge in my family, especially my eldest daughter thinking‘ What will she say to me if I do this? ’Every night I pray and thank God for what I have, I’m not saying that at some point went crazy, but it was a matter of seconds. Many would have gone crazy with only 5% of what I have because it’s too much“, The boxer commented to Javier Alarcón.
Canelo confesses that he wanted to be an F1 driver
He is the most recognized Mexican boxer today, but our country could run out of it cinnamon in the boxing of having pursued his first dream of childhood, which was be a Formula 1 driver, Although the economic shortcomings of that time prevented him to pursue 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 driver, I dreamed of him but with what money because you need great support for this and my people or how to find him. I would have found something to dedicate myself to, maybe I would have put a lot of pallets in Mexico, “he confessed.
Canelo was bullied
Today there is no man in the face of the Earth who in his sanity dares to make fun of the cinnamon in the face, but as a child it was different because he was bullied because of his physical appearance, Which partly introduced him to the sport of fists.
“He was tremendous as a kid, though I was always very serious and calm, I did it because at school it was different to be red-haired and spotted“That cheek and teasing made me shy,” he recalled.
“I didn’t know boxing and I was already fighting all the time at school or on the street, I had to defend myself from teasing for my looks, I was very brave and there was not a day that I didn’t fight. Other times it would stop a friend, the truth is I loved fighting in the street and they respected me because I was very good as a child. “
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