{"id":71553,"date":"2022-05-03T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/saul-canelo-alvarez-la-cara-del-boxeo-mundial\/"},"modified":"2022-05-03T13:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T18:05:25","slug":"saul-canelo-alvarez-the-face-of-world-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/saul-canelo-alvarez-the-face-of-world-boxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sa\u00fal \u201cCanelo\u201d \u00c1lvarez, the face of world boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sa\u00fal \u201cCanelo\u201d \u00c1lvarez, the face of world boxing<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The WBC super middleweight champion and Pride of Mexico Sa\u00fal “Canelo” \u00c1lvarez, is undoubtedly the greatest representative of world boxing, as he has has accomplished brilliant and historic achievements.<\/p>\n

that\u2019s propelled and catapulted him to the pinnacle as the Superstar. One of the very greatest pound for pound.<\/p>\n

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“Canelo’s” career has been strongly linked to the WBC, representing the Green and Gold for more than 13 years with outstanding results in his professional career. We recall some important points and highlights:<\/p>\n

-In 2008 he was chosen by the WBC to enter the \u201cRing Telmex\u201d program.<\/p>\n

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-In 2009 he won the NABF championship as well as the WBC youth championship.<\/p>\n

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-In 2010 he won the WBC Silver title by defeating the Argentine Luciano Cuello.<\/p>\n

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-He conquered the vacant WBC super welterweight championship defeating Matthew Hatton in 2011, defending it 7 times.<\/p>\n

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-He conquered the middleweight title and won the WBC Diamond belt, by defeating Puerto Rican legend Miguel Cotto in 2015.<\/p>\n

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-He participated in the first \u201cFight for Peace\u201d event of the Pope Francis Foundation \u201cScholas Occurrentes\u201d and the \u201cBoxVal\u201d program in 2016 defeating Amir Khan.<\/p>\n

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-He regained the WBC middleweight championship by defeating Gennady Golovkin on September 15, 2018.<\/p>\n

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-He won the WBC super middleweight title by defeating Britain’s Callum Smith, successfully defending it 3 times.<\/p>\n

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-He was designated as a WBC Franchise Boxer, catering only to elite fighters who compete and are active in multiple divisions.<\/p>\n

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– Canelo was present at the organization’s most recent convention in November of last year.<\/p>\n

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Sa\u00fal \u201cCanelo\u201d \u00c1lvarez, the face of world boxing The WBC super middleweight champion and Pride of Mexico Sa\u00fal “Canelo” \u00c1lvarez, is undoubtedly the greatest representative of [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":61112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}