{"id":211029,"date":"2025-06-24T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/211029\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:11:08","slug":"former-canelo-alvarez-opponent-says-he-is-easy-work-i-cooked-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/211029\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Canelo Alvarez Opponent Says He Is &#8216;Easy Work&#8217;: &#8220;I Cooked Him&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez is just shy of 70 fights into an outstanding professional career.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old from Guadalajara, Mexico entered the paid ranks back in 2005 when he was just 15-years-old, and since then has gone on to write his name into boxing history on a number of occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the course of his tenure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/canelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canelo<\/a> has won world titles in four weight classes, as well as capturing the undisputed super-middleweight championship twice, becoming the only fighter ever to accomplish this feat.<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican superstar has racked up a number of legacy defining victories along the way, defeating the likes of Gennady Golovkin, Miguel Cotto and Sergey Kovalev amongst many others.<\/p>\n<p>As he enters what could be the final few years of his tenure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/terence-crawford-agrees-to-canelos-one-major-request-ahead-of-fight-in-september\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canelo is currently preparing to face Terence \u2018Bud\u2019 Crawford<\/a> in what has been described by many as a \u2018mega-fight\u2019 on September 13.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his considerable success, Canelo has been beaten twice during his career, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/09\/15\/sport\/mayweather-alvarez-boxing-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with the first of these defeats coming at the hands of retired pound-for-pound great Floyd Mayweather Jr back in 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=shared&amp;v=Df2e6GkCecI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fight Hype<\/a>, Mayweather didn\u2019t hesitate to give his opinion of the Mexican icon, as he claims Canelo was an \u2018easy\u2019 opponent.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou can take a guy like Canelo. I\u2019ll tell the truth about Canelo. The mo**erf**ker was easy. A cakewalk, easy. You\u2019re all praising this dude. He was nothing. I was almost 40 and I cooked this dude, easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mayweather defeated Canelo via unanimous decision to capture the WBC light-middleweight title when they clashed at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas 12-years-ago.<\/p>\n<p>After handing the Mexican star the first defeat of his career, Mayweather would continue fighting for almost half a decade, going on to announce his retirement from the sport just a few months after he beat MMA legend Conor McGregor in August of 2017, walking away from the sport with a perfect unbeaten record of 50-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez is just shy of 70 fights into an outstanding professional career. 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