{"id":775304,"date":"2026-09-19T01:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775304\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T01:52:09","slug":"canelo-alvarez-names-the-top-3-hardest-punchers-he-has-faced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775304\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez names the top 3 hardest punchers he has faced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/canelo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canelo Alvarez<\/a> has named his three hardest-hitting opponents in a 68-fight career that will guarantee him Hall of Fame status.<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican is now gearing up to face WBC champion Christian Mbilli, bidding to reclaim a quarter of the undisputed super-middleweight crown <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/terence-crawford-defines-career-with-remarkable-canelo-alvarez-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he lost to Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This defeat came in September 2025 and followed his other two losses, against Floyd Mayweather and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/dmitry-bivol\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dmitry Bivol<\/a>, which many respectively attributed to experience and size disadvantages.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Canelo was far from a natural light-heavyweight but Bivol, nevertheless, deserves full credit for implementing an effective gameplan and winning their 2022 encounter by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez was also comprehensively outboxed when he faced Mayweather in 2013 but, while campaigning at 154lbs, the four-division world champion rarely seemed overly bothered by the power of his opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he unsurprisingly experienced more thudding blows from Gennady Golovkin, who was unfortunate not to win their middleweight showdown in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>After boxing to a draw, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/24693564\/canelo-alvarez-defeats-gennady-golovkin-majority-decision-middleweight-title-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Canelo then emerged with a less dubious majority decision victory<\/a> in their rematch the following year, before becoming the undisputed super-middleweight king and dethroning Sergey Kovalev for the WBO 175lb title in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Kovalev was a far cry from his formidable prime but, even so, Alvarez has named the \u2018Krusher\u2019 as one of his most powerful opponents.<\/p>\n<p>As for the third biggest puncher he has ever faced, Canelo told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@storysport777\/video\/7684686406576246037?_r=1&amp;_t=ZN-99opI4fWkLu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">STORY SPORT<\/a> that, despite stopping him in three rounds, he also felt the super-welterweight power of James Kirkland when they collided in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Super-middleweight world champion Mbilli, meanwhile, boasts a similar knockout record to Kirkland as he looks to defeat the 36-year-old Canelo on October 31.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez has named his three hardest-hitting opponents in a 68-fight career that will guarantee him Hall of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-775304","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\/775304","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=775304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}