{"id":110728,"date":"2025-09-03T04:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/110728\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T04:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:51:10","slug":"canelo-alvarez-was-awarded-a-strange-gift-after-a-win-that-led-to-1-5-million-passion-that-he-shares-with-mike-tyson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/110728\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez was awarded a strange gift after a win that led to $1.5 million passion that he shares with Mike Tyson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As one of the highest paid athletes in the world, Canelo Alvarez spends a lot of time and money on one of his biggest passions.<\/p>\n

While Floyd Mayweather earned a record purse for beating Alvarez<\/a>, the Mexican star has gone on to become one of the most financially successful boxers of all time.<\/p>\n

His next fight taking place against Terence Crawford<\/a> in a dream matchup that fans have wanted to see for a long time is only going to continue to raise that bar even higher.<\/p>\n

As Alvarez\u2019s 2019 purchase of a $3 million Bugatti Chiron<\/a> shows, he\u2019s not afraid to spend his earnings either.<\/p>\n

Anyone who has followed the legendary boxer\u2019s career for some time may know that cars and belts aren\u2019t the only things that he has acquired during his career.<\/p>\n

\"CaneloPhoto by Steve Marcus\/Getty ImagesCanelo Alvarez received a horse as a gift before building his own extensive ranch<\/p>\n

In 2010, Canelo Alvarez<\/a> faced off with Luciano Leonel Cuello for the vacant WBC Silver light middleweight title.<\/p>\n

He went on to stop his Argentinian foe in the sixth round, which eventually led to Alvarez being lined up to face Manny Pacquiao<\/a> before the WBC champion chose to vacate his belt.<\/p>\n

The WBC Silver title wasn\u2019t the only thing that the Mexican star picked up in victory on that night in Guadalajara, Mexico.<\/p>\n

He was somewhat strangely gifted a horse by Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez in his post-fight interview, though this was just the beginning of his collection.<\/p>\n

\"CaneloPhoto by Sarah Stier\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

It was reported in 2023 that Alvarez owned over 30 horses at his ranch, Las Reinas (The Queens) which is said to have cost him around $1.5 million, according to Essentially Sports.<\/p>\n

Along with \u2018Spirit\u2019, the horse that he received as a gift from Fernandez in 2010, Alvarez also owns \u2018Espartano\u2019, a horse that was given to him by another Mexican singer, Esequiel Pena.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old gave his fans a closer look at his love of riding and keeping horses in a video for GQ Sports in 2023, where he spoke about where this passion comes from.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first horse I had was a mare that my dad bought when I was around 4 years old. But, I bothered him every day, saying, \u2018Buy me a horse. Buy me a horse.\u2019 But we couldn\u2019t afford one, but as a kid, I didn\u2019t know. I think it cost him around 3,000 pesos.\u201d <\/p>\n

Canelo Alvarez is not the first legendary boxer to spend his earnings on animals<\/p>\n

While Canelo Alvarez receiving a horse as a gift for a win is pretty uncommon, it\u2019s not necessarily surprising that this would become one of his biggest passions in life.<\/p>\n

The same cannot be said for fellow boxing legend Mike Tyson<\/a>, who is well known for having a very strong and rare relationship with animals.<\/p>\n

\"MikePhoto by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Tyson, who recently gave his thoughts on Alvarez\u2019s next fight<\/a>, has always been incredibly passionate about owning and caring for pigeons.<\/p>\n

\u2018Iron\u2019 Mike went as far as to say earlier this year in an interview with People<\/a> that he might even currently own a thousand pigeons in places like California, New Jersey and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to mention the huge amount of money that Tyson spent on buying and keeping his three Bengal tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As one of the highest paid athletes in the world, Canelo Alvarez spends a lot of time and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,9554,7879,101,9553,16061,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-110728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-canelo-alvarez","tag-mike-tyson","tag-sports","tag-terence-crawford","tag-throwbacks","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}