Canelo Alvarez is a Mexican boxer from Guadalajara, Mexico, and is not an ordinary boxer, but known as the face of boxing to many across the world.

He’s the first ever boxer to become undisputed in the super middle weight division. He started his professional career at the age of 15 and then at 20 became the youngest boxer on the World Boxing Council.  He has had a total of 67 fights in his professional career since then. In fact, he has won 16 world titles across four different weight divisions and has become a double time undisputed champion in May of 2025.

Alvarez has faced some formidable opponents in his professional career. With only two losses in his history, he has beaten fighters such as Gennadiy Golovkin, Miguel Cotto and Billy Joe Saunders. At the age of 23, he fought one of America’s finest boxers, Floyd Mayweather Jr., but unfortunately suffered his first professional loss. He went on to not lose a boxing match for eight years until his matchup with Dimitry Bivol that gave him his second professional loss at the age of 31.

Alvarez’s journey was not simple.  At the age of five, his family moved him to a farm in Jalisco. He learned the art of horseback riding which till this day, he enjoys doing in his free time. He believed at that early age that boxing was his calling, because it was what he wanted to do, so he did just that. Alvarez isn’t the only boxer in his family. He comes from a family of generational boxers, and not only is one of them but also his seven brothers. They once made history by fighting all on the same card but Alvarez himself has become Mexico’s boxing pride and joy.  Recently, Alvarez lost his undisputed super middleweight crown, a reign he had held for years, in his match against American boxer, Terence Crawford.