Canelo Alvarez took a huge risk in his career when he raised two weight classes to follow one of the most dreaded champions in the sport.
On September 13, Canelo Alvarez returns to the boxing ring for one of the biggest fights in the recent memory when he takes on Terence Crawford in an undisputed super middleweight title fight.
One of the biggest points for the fight is that it is the inaugural event that is promoted by the TKO boxing of Dana White, while he wants to leave his mark in the sport with a huge event.
Years before White signed his involvement in the sport, he spoke about how he would promote 'stud' crawford, and now he has the chance to do exactly what he said he would do.
However, Crawford has a tough task, because the Mexican champion is generally considered the current pound-for-pound best hunter in the world and he hopes to set up a different best performance.
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Canelo jumped up two weight classes to follow feared champion for a huge payment day of $ 35 million
Although Crawford is also considered one of the best pound-for-pound hunters in the world, and still does an impressive undefeat record, he has not confronted the type of talent that Canelo has.
After years of dominating the middleweight division, Alvarez decided in 2019 courageous to go to the light to hire one of the most feared champions in Sergey Kovalev.
Following Canelo's impressive victory over Daniel Jacobs, conversations for a slightly heavyweight title fight against Kovalev, which would rise two weight classes.
Kovalev first had to come through the heavy test of Anthony Yarde, what he did by turning him off in the 11th round of their collision.
Not long after, it was officially announced that Canelo vs Kovalev would take place from the MGM Grand Garden Arena and with a victory Canelo would only be the Second Mexican hunter who won the light heavyweight title.
Although the fight was relatively competitive due to the first 10 rounds, Canelo showed why he is one of the biggest ever when he hit the Russian in round 11.
With his victory, he joined Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard and Mike McCallum as the only former light middleweight champions in history to win a title in light heavyweight.
Dana White criticized the right to each other with a huge UFC card
Although Canelo and White now work together with the biggest boxing event in a while, it is honest to say that their relationship has not always been great.
In anticipation of Canelo's fight against Kovalev, the UFC boss criticized the event when it was set to collide with UFC 244, the inaugural BMF title between Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz.
The fight of Canelo was then delayed for more than an hour while they waited at the peak of UFC 244 before they started their walk.