{"id":53147,"date":"2025-08-07T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53147\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:20:07","slug":"floyd-mayweather-earned-a-boxing-record-purse-of-over-41-million-after-schooling-canelo-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53147\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather earned a ‘boxing record purse’ of over $41 million after schooling Canelo Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Canelo Alvarez has only lost twice in his storied career but when he lost his first ever fight against Floyd Mayweather, it was more than just a loss.<\/p>\n

On September 13, Canelo Alvarez<\/a> returns to action after defending his undisputed super middleweight title earlier this year, when he takes on Terence Crawford<\/a> in a super fight at the Allegiant Stadium.<\/p>\n

The blockbuster fight comes on the inaugural event promoted by Dana White<\/a> and Turki Alalshikh<\/a> after announcing the creation of TKO boxing<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Canelo will once again be hoping to take down one of the biggest names in the sport, further adding to his already incredible legacy by taking Crawford\u2019s undefeated record.<\/p>\n

And he will be hoping to do so in the same way Floyd Mayweather<\/a> did to him when they clashed for the light middleweight titles in 2013.<\/p>\n

\"FloydPhoto by Al Bello\/Getty ImagesMayweather earned \u2018boxing record purse\u2019 when he handed Canelo first-ever loss<\/p>\n

In early 2011, Canelo won the WBC light middleweight title when he and Matthew Hatton clashed for the vacant title in California.<\/p>\n

After going on to defend the strap six times in extremely impressive fashion, the then-23-year-old was booked for the biggest fight of his career against the pound-for-pound number one, \u2018Money\u2019 Mayweather.<\/p>\n

At that point, Mayweather\u2019s career had pretty much gone flawlessly having not suffered a loss and all of his wins being relatively comprehensive, apart from his controversial win over Victor Ortiz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Heading into their fight, the Mexican champion was deemed to be Mayweather\u2019s toughest test to date, especially considering the size difference between the two champions.<\/p>\n

Despite that, \u2018Money\u2019 Mayweather went on to put on a masterclass, schooling Canelo and handing him his first career loss.<\/p>\n

Judge C.J. Ross scored the fight 114-114 which was highly controversial, with the other two judges scoring it in favor of Mayweather 116-112 and 117-111. Not long after the fight, Ross retired from judging following the controversy.<\/p>\n

According to Mayweather\u2019s right hand man, Leonard Ellerbe, the champion received a boxing record guaranteed purse of over $41.5 million.<\/p>\n

Floyd Mayweather slammed Canelo when giving his opinion on the Mexican<\/p>\n

Years after the two shared the ring together and Mayweather subsequently retired, the former pound-for-pound number one utterly slammed Canelo when providing his honest opinion on the Mexican.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can take a guy like Canelo. I\u2019ll tell you the truth about Canelo. The mother\u2014\u2014 was easy. A cakewalk, easy. You\u2019re all praising this dude. He was nothing. I was almost 40 and I cooked this dude, easy,\u201d Mayweather told FightHype. <\/p>\n

In a different interview, \u2018Money\u2019 labeled Crawford as the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet, clearly showing who he is siding with in the upcoming fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez has only lost twice in his storied career but when he lost his first ever fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,5051,30209,82,8711],"class_list":["post-53147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canelo-alvarez","tag-floyd-mayweather","tag-sports","tag-throwbacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}