{"id":932972,"date":"2026-10-14T17:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932972\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T17:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:40:17","slug":"canelo-alvarez-names-the-current-best-five-fighters-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932972\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez names the current best five fighters in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having previously been considered as the pound-for-pound king, Canelo Alvarez<\/a> is on a quest to prove that he remains amongst the elite, and the four-division world champion has revealed his top five active pound-for-pound fighters.<\/p>\n

Many fight fans considered Canelo to be the pound-for-pound number one between 2019 and 2022, as he continued his long unbeaten streak since a 2013 loss to Floyd Mayweather and progressed through the weight divisions.<\/p>\n

In November 2019, Alvarez dethroned WBO light-heavyweight world champion Sergey Kovalev to claim world honours in a fourth division, before moving back down to super-middleweight and capturing all four 168lb titles in an 11-month spell to become boxing\u2019s first undisputed super-middleweight champion.<\/p>\n

Canelo has since suffered defeats to both Dmitry Bivol and Terence Crawford and the 36-year-old now finds himself without a belt, but he is set for a world title challenge at the end of the month, when he heads to Saudi Arabia and attempts to dethrone Christian Mbilli<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking to DAZN Boxing<\/a>\u00a0ahead of that title bid, Canelo revealed his current top five boxers in the sport, noticeably opting not to include himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy top five pound-for-pound fighters are [Oleksandr] Usyk, [Naoya] Inoue, Bivol, Shakur [Stevenson] and Gervonta [Davis].\u201d<\/p>\n

Canelo\u2019s selections may come as no surprise, with Usyk and Inoue viewed as the top two fighters on most people\u2019s pound-for-pound lists.<\/p>\n

Bivol currently holds three of the four world titles at light heavyweight, making the next defence of those belts against Callum Smith in December, while Stevenson looks poised for a showdown with Devin Haney later this year.<\/p>\n

As for Davis, he may be the surprise inclusion in Canelo\u2019s list, with \u2018Tank\u2019 having not competed since March 2025 when he was held to a controversial draw with Lamont Roach.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having previously been considered as the pound-for-pound king, Canelo Alvarez is on a quest to prove that he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-932972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932972","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=932972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}