{"id":315087,"date":"2025-08-03T17:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315087\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:24:11","slug":"hall-of-fame-world-champion-demands-people-stop-comparing-canelo-to-him-id-destroy-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315087\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall Of Fame World Champion Demands People Stop Comparing Canelo To Him: “I’d Destroy Him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A hall of fame inductee has hit out at people who are comparing him to Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Canelo is just shy of 70 fights into a decorated professional career which began way back in 2005 when he was just 15-years-old.<\/p>\n

Since making his debut, the Mexican icon has won world titles in four weight classes, ranging from super-welterweight to light-heavyweight, including the undisputed super-middleweight world championship on two occasions.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old from Guadalajara is just over one month away from facing fellow pound-for-pound star Terence Crawford<\/a> at the Allegiant Stadium on September 13.<\/p>\n

One man doesn\u2019t appear impressed with Alvarez though, as speaking to Mill City Boxing<\/a>, retired four division world champion James Toney<\/a> played down the skill level and accolades of Canelo, as he admits he believes he could defeat the Mexican great right now.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe put too much emphasis on Canelo. If you look at it, he\u2019s fought all these guys who are lighter than him, or they are past their prime and all of that, you can\u2019t compare this mother****er to me, dog. I fought the best fighters in their prime. I don\u2019t even want to talk about the mother****er, because he p***es me off.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he has balls, I could always come out of retirement and whoop his mother****ing a** right now, I\u2019d f*** him up, for real. I ain\u2019t got a problem with [doing] that! I\u2019d beat Canelo right now! He can be knocked out, he\u2019s not all that. He\u2019s no James Toney. He\u2019s not in my league, he can\u2019t carry my bags. Stop comparing him to me because there is no match, I would destroy him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Toney\u2019s last ring appearance as a professional came in 2017<\/a> when he stopped Mike Sheppard in the sixth round of their bout in Michigan, although he did return to the ring in an exhibition contest in 2023, drawing with Donovan \u2018Razor\u2019 Ruddock over 6 rounds in Kingston, Jamaica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hall of fame inductee has hit out at people who are comparing him to Mexican superstar Canelo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-315087","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\/114966001280434341","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315087","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=315087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}