Santos Saul Alvarez Barrahan

Santos Saul Alvarez Barragan is a professional boxer of Mexican origin, a world champion in two weight classes: in the middleweight and middleweight divisions. The physical parameters of the athlete: height - 179 cm, weight - 72 kg.

Saul was born on July 18, 1990, in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. In the family of Santos Alvarez and Ana Maria Barragan, he was the youngest son. Saul has six brothers and a sister. All the children in the Alvarez family have been interested in sports since childhood. But only he and his older brother Rigoberto managed to achieve great success in boxing.

Saul entered the ring at the age of 13. Being an amateur, the young man had 20 fights, twice became the winner of the championship of Mexico: at the age of 14 he took second place, a year later he won gold.

It is noteworthy that for a Mexican guy has a rather unusual appearance. He has red hair, freckles and pale skin. Saul looks more like an Irishman or a Swede. But hardly anyone will want to argue about his nationality, already in school years he did not give his offenders a descent.

It was because of the "other" appearance that he got his nickname Canelo. Presumably, for the first time he was called so by coach Jose Reynoso. This is an abbreviation of the word "canelito." In Mexican Spanish, it means "little cinnamon." Indeed, the Mexican looks like he's been sprinkled with cinnamon.

Over time, the diminutive and affectionate ending was removed, and Canelo became a real brand in the American market.

In 2005, Saul became a professional and knocked out opponents in the first two fights. In 2006, Alvarez fought with rookie Miguel Vazquez, whom Paul defeated in four rounds. Six months later, in the ring with Jorge Jares, the judges awarded the athletes a draw. In 2008, he won the tournament with Gabriel Martinez in the 12th round after his opponent refused to continue the fight and received the WBA Fedecentro belt in the welterweight category.

In mid-2008, Alvarez was again ahead of Miguel Vazquez in the judges' points. In the fight with Antonio Fitch, which took place in early 2009, he defeated his opponent by knockout and received the title of NABF in the middleweight category. In the second tournament of the year, defeating Latin American athlete Euri Gonzalez, the boxer won the WBO Latino title. In the next fight against Michel Rosales Saul again knocked out his opponent.

In the summer of 2009, Alvarez was awarded the WBC junior welterweight title. At the age of 20, Saul became the WBC world silver champion in the first middleweight division after knocking out Luciano Leonel Cullo of Argentina.

In the next fight, Alvarez confirmed the title with a victory over Carlos Manuel Baldomir, a former world champion. The opponent was knocked out in the sixth round. In a fight with Lovemore Ndu of Australia, a former world title holder, Alvarez won by the number of points.

At the age of 21, Saul fought Matthew Hutton, who won and won the WBC title in the first middleweight category. Ryan Rhodes, Alfonso Gomez and Kermit Cintron had to defend the title. Each time the victory of the Mexican was achieved by knockout of the opponent.

In 2012, there was a fight with american Shane Mosley, the famous champion of three weight categories, with Saul's work estimated at $2 million, and Mosley - at $600,000. Alvarez lived up to the expectations of the fans, having held a flawless fight, in which he did not allow the opponent to relax for a moment.

Six months later, the tournament was held against Josesito Lopez. Alvarez's fee exceeded his opponent's reward by 10 times and again amounted to $2 million. Lopez, like Mosley, came under the mexican's control, and after the 5th round the competition ended with a unanimous victory of Saul. After an even fight with Austin Trout, whom Alvarez beat on points, the Mexican boxer won two titles: WBC and WBA.

Alvarez's first sports biography defeat in September 2013 was against Floyd Mayweather. He immediately led the game, preventing Alvarez from taking the lead. The experience of the American boxer made itself felt: Floyd began his professional career 9 years earlier than Saul. At the end of the fight, two judges voted for the American, the third left a draw.

However, financially, this fight became "golden" for all. Paid broadcasts sold out like hot cakes. Promoters earned $150 million (which was a record amount at that time). Despite the defeat, Saul's "salary" was $10 million, and Mayweather became richer by $70 million.

After the first defeat in his career, Alvarez entered the ring with his compatriot Alfredo Angulo, Cuban Erislandy Lara, it ended with Saul's victory.

The next time his opponent was American knockout James Kirkland. The American aggressively started the fight, but the Mexican defended well and counterattacked. And in the first round he managed to send Kirkland to the knockdown. In the third round he repeated his success, and although the American got up, almost immediately received such a blow that went to a heavy knockout. Alvarez's success was unequivocal.

Miguel Cotto met in November 2015. The smooth fight without intrigue was 12 rounds, after which Alvarez received the title of winner.

In early May 2016, Alvarez fought British boxer Amir Khan. At the beginning of the tournament the advantage remained on the side of the Englishman because of his activity and quick footwork, but soon the athlete got carried away and began to linger in a close position from the Mexican. A few minutes was enough for Alvarez to knock out his opponent, after which Amir had to be hospitalized.

In May 2017, Alvarez was competing with Julio Cesar Chavez in Las Vegas, in which Saul won by a significant margin. After the battle in an interview, the Mexican publicly summoned the middle-weight king Gennady Golovkin, who was in the hall, having arranged a real show from it.

The fact is that after the meeting with Amir Khan was to be a fight with Golovkin from Kazakhstan, but since Alvarez was not satisfied with the deadline, the boxer had to give up the WBC title. Promotional group Golden Boy Promotions for a year held talks with representatives of Gennady, after which the date of the tournament was set - September 16, 2017.

And on September 17, 2016, a duel with undefeated Briton Liam Smith, WBO world champion, took place. Smith had a right eye dissection in the fifth round. In the seventh - the Briton was in the first knockdown of his career, and in the ninth was knocked out. Alvarez won the world middleweight title.

As previously agreed, on September 16, 2017, Golovkin and Alvarez met in the ring in Las Vegas. At first Gennady pressed Saul, so in the first half of the fight he "reworked Alvarez". But after the "equator" of the battle, the Mexican began to actively engage, stopped "sitting out" in defense and successfully met the onslaught of the aggressor. Both sides had powerful and precise blows, but none of the boxers were defeated. Thus, the judges delivered a scandalous verdict - a draw, but most experts noted that the advantage was on the side of the Kazakh athlete. Immediately after the fight, Gennady and Saul agreed to a rematch.

Saul Alvarez's personal life is rich and varied. Behind the man stretches a trail of victories on the love front. Colombian model Barbara Turbey and actress Kate del Castillo couldn't resist Canelo's charm.

In 2016, the boxer began appearing with a stranger who turned out to be a non-media person. Journalists soon learned the name of Alvarez's companion: her name was Fernanda Gomez. The girl was born in Mexico City, with Alvarez met through promoter Oscar De La Hoya. The pair dated for almost a year.

Fernanda was then replaced by Shannon de Lima, the ex-wife of Jennifer Lopez's ex-wife, Marc Anthony. At the same time, mexican media reported that fernanda Gomez's ex-girlfriend is expecting a child from the boxer. There are also rumors in the press that Alvarez has already experienced the joy of fatherhood once: he is supposedly already having a daughter.

Lima and Saul haven't advertised a relationship for a long time. The connection between the young men could only be guessed at several joint photos on Alvarez's personal Instagram page. Officially, the boxer confirmed the relationship only at a meeting with the press about the upcoming fight with Gennady Golovkin.

In many ways, the secretive behavior of young people was influenced by the fact that under the previous marriage contract Lima is not allowed to officially marry for three years after the divorce from Marc Anthony, otherwise will lose a monthly payment from the former spouse of $10,000.

Alvarez is a socially active person. His Instagram and Twitter pages are verified and regularly updated with new photos and posts. In addition to photos from training and fights, he shares with fans and family shots - with his sister, parents, and in the summer of 2018 even showed everyone his little daughter. But it is not known with whom the boxer is meeting now.

On September 16, 2018, a rematch between Saul Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin took place at the famous T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

This meeting of the titled boxers was to take place in May. However, on the appointed day and hour only Golovkin appeared in the ring. At that time, the Mexican was in the process of proceeding with USADA. The fact is that in his two doping tests, which were taken before the first fight, found traces of a banned drug - clenbuterol. Alvarez was eventually disqualified for six months.

This time at stake were the WBC, WBA Super and IBO belts belonging to the Kazakh. According to the results of the meeting, the statistics are as follows: For the fight Golovkin struck 879 blows, of which 234 reached the goal (this is 27% of the total). Alvarez had 622 strikes, but his accuracy was higher - 202 (33%) hit the bull's-eye. The victory was awarded to Saul Alvarez.

However, as a result, not all belts got Canelo. He refused to pay the International Boxing Organization (IBO) a sanction, which made the title vacant.

2004 - Second place at the Mexican Championship

2005 - First place at the Mexican Championship

2007-2008 - Jalisco State Champion among Professionals

2008 WBC World Champion

2013 - TheRing, WBC and WBA World Champion

2015 - WBC World Champion

2018 - WBC, WBA World Champion

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