What Canelo Alvarez's opponents look like before and after fighting the pound-for-pound king
Gennady Golovkin bloodied, Billy Joe Saunders’ broken eye, James Kirkland confused – What Canelo’s opponents look like before and after fighting him with Dmitry Bivol nextSaul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez is back in the ring this weekend for his date with destiny as he seeks to add the light-heavyweight title to his super-middleweight belts.
The 31-year-old has fought with incredible regularity to clean out the super-middleweight division. It says a lot that the only man to ever beat Canelo is Floyd Mayweather, widely regarded as one of the greatest. Since then, he has left a host of fighters broken, bruised and bloodied. When you step in the ring with Canelo, you don’t often come out looking the same as these men discovered.Perhaps the finest example of Canelo’s devastating power came against Kirkland in 2015 at super-welterweight.
Just two weeks on from the lucrative, albeit tedious, bout between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, Canelo needed just three rounds to spin Kirkland’s head round en route to victory.
Kirkland was dropped in the first round and was left with a seriously bloodied nose. The onslaught continued into the third, and ultimately final round when a sneaky right hand chopped the American down and the knockout instantly went viral.
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