This is the life of Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez: age, family and other data

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(CNN Spanish) --

Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez is perhaps one of the most important boxers of recent times.

The Mexican is the current World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), World Boxing Organization (WBO), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and The Ring super middleweight world champion.

These are some facts you should know about Saúl Álvarez.

Personal data of "Canelo" Alvarez

Full name:

Saúl Álvarez Barragán.

July 18, 1990.

32 years old

Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, Jalisco.

He grew up in San Agustín, just outside of Guadalajara, Mexico.

October 2005.

Family:

He has four children with four different women: Emily Cinnamon, Mía Ener, María Fernanda and Saúl Adiel, according to some media.

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other facts

His nickname "Canelo" is the way he was called at school and by his neighborhood friends for having fair skin and freckles, something he inherited from his mother, says his website, a contrast to the people in his neighborhood who had lighter skin. dark.

He says that this nickname made him a "symbol of strength."

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As of September 2022, Canelo has a record of 57-2-2, that is, a record of 57 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses.

Of the total of victories, 39 have been by knockout and technical knockout, the rest have been by decision of the judges.

The defeats were, the first, in September 2013 against boxer Floyd Mayweather, when the Mexican boxer was 23 years old.

The second was in 2022, against the Russian Dimitri Bivol, on May 7 for the World Boxing Association (WBA) belt in the light heavyweight category.

According to Forbes, Canelo was ranked 8th among the highest paid athletes of 2022, with earnings of US $ 90 million until the month of April of this year.

And the Celebrity Net Worth site mentions that Canelo's current net worth amounts to US$140 million, which will surely increase with the 2022 fights.

Chronology

Saúl Álvarez is a Mexican boxer born just outside of Guadalajara, Mexico.

Before starting boxing professionally, he accompanied his father to sell popsicles through the streets of Juanacatlán, Jalisco, in western Mexico.

At the age of 10, he received his first boxing gloves, so he started training at that age.

At age 15, in 2005, he made his professional debut at La Arena Chololo Larios in Tonalá, Jalisco, where he defeated Abraham González by technical knockout.

It was a "harbinger of the wave of victories to come," says his website.

Since then Álvarez has had a career full of victories.

These are some of his professional milestones:

2005 —

He makes his professional debut at the age of 15.

2006 —

Wins the middleweight title in Jalisco.

2008 —

Wins his first boxing belt from the World Boxing Association Fedecentro (WBA) after defeating Mexican Gabriel Martinez.

2011 —

Achieves the title of Middleweight World Champion of the World Boxing Council (WBC, for its acronym in English).

2015 —

Earns World Boxing Association Knockout of the Year award for victory against James "Mandingo Warrior" Kirkland.

2016 —

Receives the fourth World Champion belt, after winning by knockout in the ninth round against the British Liam Smith.

2017 —

Puts on one of the biggest fights of his career against countryman Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. He also first fought Gennady "GGG" Golovkin to compete for the WBA, WBC and International Boxing Federation titles.

In the fight that year "Canelo" and "GGG" were tied.

2018 —

The rematch against "GGG" arrives, in which Canelo triumphs.

That year he also won the WBA Super Middleweight title in a fight against Britain's Rocky Fielding in New York.

2019 —

Gets back in the ring to defend the WBC, WBA, The Ring and IBF lineal championship belts against New Yorker and former IBF champion Daniel Jacobs.

"Canelo" defeated Jacobs.

That year he also moved up two divisions to challenge Russia's Sergey Kovalev, who was then the World Boxing Organization light heavyweight champion.

Alvarez defeated Kovalev.

2021 —

Defends the WBC super middleweight title against Turkey's Avni Yildirim at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium.

That year, in November, he claimed the super middleweight championship by defeating American Caleb Plant.

By that time, Álvarez held all four belts from the main bodies that govern international boxing: the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council and the World Boxing Organization.

And he added the super middleweight.

2022 —

"Canelo" Álvarez was defeated by the Russian Dmitry Bivol, who gave the Mexican the second defeat in his entire career.

After 12 rounds, Bivol won the fight via unanimous decision (115-113).

Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez