{"id":293273,"date":"2025-07-26T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293273\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T12:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:26:09","slug":"canelo-didnt-hesitate-when-asked-who-is-the-better-fighter-between-floyd-mayweather-and-bivol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293273\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Didn&#8217;t Hesitate When Asked Who Is The Better Fighter Between Floyd Mayweather And Bivol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/canelo-alvarez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canelo Alvarez<\/a> is just shy of 70 fights into what has been an accomplished professional career.<\/p>\n<p>Since making his professional debut as a 15-year-old back in 2005, the Mexican icon has gone on to win world titles across four weight classes.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote his name into the boxing history books back in May when he defeated Cuba\u2019s William Scull to become the first two-time undisputed super-middleweight champion ever.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his outstanding success, Canelo has suffered two defeats throughout his career, falling short to former pound-for-pound great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/floyd-mayweather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Floyd Mayweather<\/a> in 2013, followed by former undisputed light-heavyweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/dmitry-bivol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmitry Bivol<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/mayweather-canelo-fight-different-in-prime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He surrendered his WBC light-middleweight title to Mayweather when they clashed in September of 2013<\/a>, suffering a majority decision defeat to the five division world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Canelo made the step up to 175lbs to challenge WBA light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol in May 2022 but ultimately fell short to the Russian great, suffering a unanimous decision defeat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/mpKQLjCx6fE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking on MILLION DOLLAZ WORTH OF GAME<\/a>, Canelo was tasked with revealing the most difficult fight of his career and opted for Mayweather over Bivol.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of them but I think my [most] difficult fight was with Floyd Mayweather.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He followed this up with revealing his \u2018hardest\u2019 ever fight, naming an opponent that he shared the ring with on three occasions.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHardest fights with [Gennady] Golovkin, maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Mexican icon is now in preparations for what could prove to be one of the toughest tests of his career <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/45552498\/alalshikh-offering-bonus-canelo-crawford-wins-knockout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when he faces fellow pound-for-pound great Terence Crawford on Saturday September 13 at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez is just shy of 70 fights into what has been an accomplished professional career. Since making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-293273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114919531059464878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}