{"id":43657,"date":"2025-08-04T16:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/43657\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:59:06","slug":"canelo-says-one-current-fighter-is-even-better-than-floyd-mayweather-pacquiao-and-de-la-hoya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/43657\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Says One Current Fighter Is Even Better Than Floyd Mayweather, Pacquiao And De La Hoya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/floyd-mayweather\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Floyd Mayweather<\/a>, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya and Canelo Alvarez are modern greats of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>34-year-old Canelo is approaching his 68th professional fight since making his debut as a 15-year-old boy back in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Since entering the paid ranks, Canelo has captured world titles across four weight classes, including the undisputed super-middleweight championship which he won for the second time with a victory over William Scull back in May.<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican great also boasts victories over the likes of Miguel Cotto, Erislandy Lara, Jermell Charlo and Gennady Golovkin to name a few, facing the latter on three occasions between 2017 and 2022. He has lost just twice, to Floyd Mayweather and Dmitry Bivol.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/features\/canelo-crawford-live-on-netflix#:~:text=Crawford%20free%20on%20Netflix%3F,and%20the%20Saudi%20Boxing%20Federation.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Now, Alvarez is just over one month away from doing battle with fellow pound-for-pound star Terence Crawford on Saturday September 13 in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/a> Though Crawford will be jumping out two weight classes for the challenge, it is safe to say he is not being underestimated.<\/p>\n<p>In a feature with The Ring Magazine, Canelo made no mistake in revealing that he believes his next rival is a better fighter than the likes of Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Oscar De La Hoya.<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican icon was tasked with staying silent until he heard the name of a better fighter than Crawford, and he didn\u2019t speak quiet when all three names were mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Should Crawford be victorious against Canelo, the unbeaten American superstar will become the first male fighter in boxing history to capture all four belts in three weight classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya and Canelo Alvarez are modern greats of the sport. 34-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-43657","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\/43657","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=43657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}