This was not the Canelo who once hunted belts across divisions. This version operated behind a high guard, picked moments carefully, and kept exchanges limited. Punch output dipped. The opposition stayed manageable. He boxed like someone managing terms rather than forcing outcomes.<\/p>\n
Activity Elsewhere Told the Real Story<\/p>\n
Terence Crawford earned about $60 million for one fight and left with his standing strengthened. He stepped up to 168 pounds, took the centre, disrupted rhythm, and made Canelo look silly all night.<\/p>\n
Naoya Inoue made roughly $62 million across four undisputed defences at super bantamweight. Four fights in one year. Three stoppages. Each outing treated like work that needed finishing, not surviving.<\/p>\n
Canelo earned more than both while boxing twice.<\/p>\n
The Fight That Never Came<\/p>\n
David Benavidez remained on the outside. Rather than taking that tough fight, Canelo faced Crawford, a smaller man with speed and timing advantages. Benavidez moved on, went to light heavyweight, and beat David Morrell in February 2025 to secure interim status.<\/p>\n
Canelo now looks closer to a veteran working clean rounds than a champion forcing fights into deep water. Safe defences. Limited risk. Predictable rhythms.<\/p>\n
The Saudi money followed that choice. The ring work reflected it.<\/p>\n
Event History: 2025<\/p>\n
May 3, 2025
Canelo Alvarez def. William Scull by UD 12
Venue: ANB Arena, Riyadh
Streaming: DAZN PPV<\/p>\n
September 13, 2025
Terence Crawford def. Canelo Alvarez by UD 12
Venue: Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas
Streaming: Netflix<\/p>\n
2025 Earnings
Total: $137 million
Salary and winnings: $120 million
Endorsements: $17 million<\/p>\n
Sportico Top 20<\/p>\n
Cristiano Ronaldo, football: $260m
\nCanelo Alvarez, boxing: $137m
\nLionel Messi, football: $130m
\nJuan Soto, baseball: $129.2m
\nLeBron James, NBA: $128.7m
\nKarim Benzema, football: $115m
\nStephen Curry, NBA: $105.4m
\nShohei Ohtani, NBA: $102.5m
\nKevin Durant, NBA: $100.8m
\nJon Rahm, golf: $100.7m
\nLewis Hamilton, F1: $100m
\nKylian Mbappe, football: $95m
\nGiannis Antetokounmpo, NBA: $94.3m
\nRory McIlroy, golf: $91.2m
\nMax Verstappen, F1: $83m
\nScottie Scheffler, golf: $82.9m
\nPatrick Mahomes, NFL: $80.3m
\nErling Haaland, football: $77.9m
\nJosh Allen, NFL: $73.2m
\nJustin Herbert, NFL: $71.1m
\nBlake Snell, baseball: $66m
\nTerence Crawford, boxing: $66m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was not the Canelo who once hunted belts across divisions. This version operated behind a high guard,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-376310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376310","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=376310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}