Boxing History
Version: Canelo Alvarez – King of the World
Published
4 weeks agoon

Shades of fury pass the face of Canelo Álvarez. They come and go quickly, the cloud destroys one moment, neat the next one, changing in an instant. After weighing, he rounded the Caleb plant with his gaze burning aggression on the last face, and then turned, almost immediately smiled tenderly at his youthful family and waved happily at the fans legion.
These supporters poured almost exclusively to Las Vegas to celebrate him. If he was energizing, he was focused until the fight, stable, when a crowd sold out around him, over 16,000 forceful, roared with shouts of tiring pleasure. Just setting a foot on the arena at MGM Grand On Saturday was everything Canelo had to do for this mass of fans to hit the deafening fever.
The appearance of the gloomy concentration was taken over by his expression when the first bell freed him to his American opponent, and his face changed again to almost furious satisfaction, when after a demanding, pulsating fight he could finally turn around to take victory and leave the plant on board at 1-05 11.
The plant entered this fight terribly to prove. The quality of an unauthorized warrior never worked at the Canelo level. In his best win he raised the IBF belt from José Uzcátegui. Now he was undoubtedly boxing the global star of this sport. Carnival and chaos of being in the center of the largest program in the city is at the moment the natural Canelo habitat. The plant did not do anything before, and in the brilliant Mexico put him a boxer with the highest caliber, with skills, experience and amazing power.
But a man from Ashland City, a tiny town near Nashville, was more than His boxing record 21-0. In the past, he survived the shocking experiences of his infant daughter, and his mother was killed by a police shooter. For some people, life hits much more than even Canelo álvarez at the peak.
For a man from a fighting city in Tennessee, unknown to world boxing, until the Caleb plant appeared, it could be said that this fight with this antagonist at this stage was an opportunity to create his name. Caleb called it his destiny.
The plant reacted to the crowd of Las Vegas, abandoning her pregnancy that it said: “It is effortless to sit on these seats.” The need to be a man in the ring is much more tough. But Canelo himself did not discourage him. At the first press conference they had a physical quarrel, and the plant did not avoid the six -month suspension of Álvarez in 2018. In the event of an undesirable result of the drug test, although he later said that he was satisfied with the tests of this fight.
Álvarez was in an unusual shape in 168 pounds. In December last year, displacement and container outside Callum Smith within 12 rounds, the 31-year-old left Liverpudlian with a devastated swollen arm. After an effortless victory over Avni Yildirim, he crashed the talented Billy Joe Saunders at the stadium in Texas, setting a attendance record at the American boxing event. In this process he built his popularity, refined his significant skill set even more and gathered three of the four sanctioning body belts. He wanted to complete his collection against plants. What’s more significant, this fight consisted of deciding about the real master of Super Middleight in the world. Canelo is a man with extraordinary determination and he knew that this fight would support him resolve his own place in the history of boxing.
In order for the plant to make such a leap in the classroom, instead of having evidence from the experience of a truly elite achievement to work, Caleb had to rely on pure self -confidence. It wasn’t a bad foundation. He did not have enough tools to win, but it was certainly competitive, especially in the first half of this struggle for the world championship super medium weight.

The concentrated Álvarez observed the plant in the first round. He exerted pressure, developing, but throwing a few blows. However, the plant used its stab, growing and finding opportunities to move through Canelo gloves. He folded well and came, even when álvarez became more and more perilous at the end of the round.
I succeeded that the speed of the plant was perceptible when he shot one or two in the body of Canelo and broke the flashing left up the chin álvarez. His blows flickered on Álvarez, landing when the plant withdrew. But Álvarez still became ahead, closing the plant in a neutral corner and stuck forceful straight hooks towards America. Canelo was not so busy, but he threw his hands with neat power, generating a sigh of the crowd every time he gave up. Plants moved from side to side, changing his direction to prevent him from being pinned by Álvarez. But Mexican diligently folded his body with his left hooks when he reached the range. The American began to feel them. He started slowing down.
In the fourth round, Caleb made a mistake. With his back pressed on the ropes, trying to escape from the right hook, he approached the left. Canelo grabbed and opened it, bombing the plant with the cluster of these more tough shots.
He continued trust in these left hooks, convinced that the investment would pay off later in the competition. He dominated the sixth round, fighting with the well -known confidence. When the plant was worried about the left body hook, Canelo hit his head. He drilled on the right and showed his unique reactions when he slipped into the plant stabbing around.
But in the seventh round, Álvarez softened the pressure on the plant. He stood on the ropes, daring for the American to come for him. Caleb tried to stand, but he was reluctant to take the bait. So Álvarez accelerated his aggression. He went forward, wanting to suppress the movement of the plant. Mighty rights hit the body, and Canelo was still turning in the left hook.
The ninth was round, which the Mexican star predicted that she would find the finish. But it escaped him. He went to the plant, trying to meet his forecast. The American resisted pressure, even working in a sequence of elementary blows, which ended in his proper career.
Canelo’s coach, Eddy Reynoso, had the task to make sure his fee remained on the right track. “The first few rounds were difficult,” said Canelo. “Eddy was the one who calmed me down whenever I got to his corner and became a bit restless, he always told me the right things, held me on my way, held me on the right path, and then the game plan.”
It was also a birthday of Reynoso, but every ceremony would have to wait. “I was a bit frustrated, especially in the first five rounds,” continued álvarez. “The second half of the fight, we imagined so, and eventually we came out with a win. That’s all that really counts. Finally, although the frustration was in the first five rounds, the second part – it was perfect.”
There was a clear difference in power between warriors. Álvarez could land from shots, and his massive hands landed with effect. However, even in the 10th round he could not get the results he wanted with these forceful body rights.
So when the end came, it was suddenly. Canelo has passed a left hook. The impact pushed the head of the plant down, and álvarez found a place for a monstrous upper right upper ass. It woven in the jaw, throwing the plant on his hands and knees. The influence was stunning. When the whole arena fell to his feet, Plant pushed forward and the top, trying to regain balance, but sent he half yoging through the ring. He tried to stay, pulling the gloves and nodding to the judge Russell Mory that he could continue. Canelo was after him, chasing him, completely ruthless. With the next wide -ranging left hook, álvarez shook him badly. He chased the plant to the ropes and was not supposed to escape anywhere. Canelo rolled the right down, sat on the left to set the cross that moved from the side of the plant’s head. Blunt strength fell to the ropes, leaving on canvas.

Canelo turned. He did not have to check the judge like a second look to know that the fight was won. At the time of the triumph, Álvarez ran in the ring and jumped onto the corner post, shaking his fist in the air as the arena exploded around him. It was spectacular close to the program.
“It was a really historic night and I am very proud that I am part of it,” said Álvarez later. “Connection [with his fans] I’ve always been there and I am really content and I am very content that Mexican fans can come and witness a fight and share success with me. “
The plant will be taken to the hospital as a precaution, but first it talked to Canelo immediately in the ring. Bad blood from a press conference, when the plant called it a cluster ** ker, was put aside. Canelo said later: “After the fight he told me he wanted to fight, he wanted to continue, and also apologized to me and what he said about my mother – he did not mean this and I was really sorry and I told him,” All right, he was water under the bridge. ” I told him he was a great man – said álvarez. “We don’t have to draw anything from the Caleba plant. He is a great warrior, a great boxer, he made a great effort.
“We are people and we want the best for ourselves in the sport in which we have to hurt. We are people, and what is happening in the ring in the ring.”

Aftewards, Álvarez stood on the podium for the last audience in the media. Pro at the age of 15, currently a veteran of 60 professional attacks, has been confirmed as a world leader in sport. It is a position that will be questioned in the coming years, maybe earlier than we thought. But now it’s at the top. “I love boxing so much,” he said. “Just like now as 16 years ago. I have never lost my discipline, this passion and I am here.”
He spoke like a state husband. Around his right eye was a bit slightly bruises, the only signs left on him after the fight. It was imperceptible from afar. With a last smile, the master could leave the stage. His face was dazzling again.
Verdict Álvarez is at the top of sport and the peak. But it will remain there is never effortless.
What Canelo Alvarez wants to continue – read HERE
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A lot was written about Freddie Mills, such a hero in the years after the Second World War. I contributed to the documentary about him, regularly appearing at BBC Four, in which I described him as a man who was at that time a man who bet on the British ghost bulldog. Many nonsense was also written about this man and I don’t have any time for the absurd theory that he was somehow involved in the murder of “Jack The Stripper” – he was not.
Today he is particularly well remembered in the tragic way of his death. He certainly fought in later years after his business ventures began not to go. When he withdrew from the ring in 1950, he initially did very well and soon became so known as “Celebrity”, regularly appearing on television on all programs, from quiz games to musical functions. He also forged a compact acting career. Less known in it is his tiny time as the best boxing promoter, the side line he liked, in which he managed to succeed.
In 1951, Freddie managed several useful warriors, including good boys from Bristol. In January 1951 he took out a promoter license and tried to set regular shows at Bristol City football, Ashton Gate, where he planned to take part in his two juvenile stars, Gordon Hazella and Terry Ratcliffe. His first show took place on May 28, 1951, and both Hazell and Ratcliffe won the complex foreign opposition. That night eight thousand went through the gates, and Freddie began to try. He was promoted here, every great success.
In August 1952, a terrible tragedy met with the seaside town of Lynmouth North Devon, when a fierce storm caused earnest plaintiffs, and 34 people lost their lives. The local boxing community gathered quickly, and Freddie was at the forefront. Within a month, he organized a charity show in nearby Barnstaple to lend a hand the Danger Fund, and one of the most outstanding local civic dignitaries, as well as the former weight champion in world weight, Terry Allen from Islington, who presented the exhibition, free of charge.
Freddie was used to larger stages because he honored them all as a boxer, and hired an Empress Hall, Earls Court, in which boxing was staged for many years, in March 1952 he took over the place from David Braitman and Ronnie Ezra, who promoted several years. His first program was attended by a local hero, Joe Lucy, Yolande Pompey and Freddie King from Wandsworth, another warrior in which Mills was interested.
In his program, Mills said, with typical playness, that “I try to provide the best possible talent at popular prices, and all dissatisfied customers can meet me in the ring.” He did not have to worry that customers would not be satisfied, because Freddie issued many programs there in the next four years, and most of his best competitions are perlera. His first British title took place in 1953, when one of his favorites, Joe Lucy, raised a free featherlight belt from another London, Tommy McGovern.
Freddie was undoubtedly the most popular British boxer when he was lively and no one else reached his appreciation until Henry Cooper appeared in the 1960s. That is why it is satisfying to notice that the juvenile Cooper Boxed for Mills at the Earls Court show in 1955, stopping Joe Crickmar from Stepney to win his eighth professional competition.
Our photo this week shows that Frank Williams from Birkenhead hugged his hands with his opponent Gaetano Annaloro from Tunisia, while weighing before the 10-Runder second promotion of Freddie in the Earls Court in April 1952.
When Freddie stopped promoting, in 1956 he moved to other business and media projects and, as we know, he was dead at the age of 46.

Sergey Kovalev shook. Right hand with Andre Ward He blew him up his chin and left him fears of the Russian legs of “Krushera”. He was seriously hurt.
Ward did not see it at the beginning. He became, leaving Kovalev on his feet. But then he stood up over him, hammering the Russian into the ring, feeding the arrows. Kovalev was eating in the ropes, fading him, folding on the hook.
Kovalev was trapped in ropes, pressed between the bands. He looked miserably at the judge, complaining about the low blow, but Tony Weeks stated it as a sign of anxiety. He fell to wave him there, and then, at 2-29 eighth round. Lithe championships in the world were resolved. Andre Ward has preserved the titles of IBF, WBA and WBO.
The Russian seemed spent at the moment, but soon explained his indignation. “He didn’t hurt me. I got tired, but I could still fight,” said Sergey. “He hit me [with] Low strokes several times during the fight. I don’t have a metal ass. “
He came to the fight, complaining about the decision of points in the first fight in November last year, about a department evading promotional duties and allegations that a team of Americans tried to prick their coach, and Kovalev left even more, fighting on a weekly intervention. “Who knows who would have victory if he did not stop fighting. I did not agree,” he added.
But Ward was in the process of expelling him from the competition. He had Kovaleva in a perilous place, and for me it was more a matter of the schedule of detention by a judge when the American finished him, and not the result was somehow illegal.
In the sharper evaluation department and his team they thought that Kovalev was looking for a way out. “He abandoned. I know what I have and I was lucky to show a high level of skill against the best in the world,” said Andre. “I think there should be a discussion if there is a deliberate foul, over and over, if I try to get out of trouble and hit him low because I am wounded. But when he bends, sometimes you hit a guy on the waist line …
Coach Ward Virgil Hunter can take some debt collection. Before the fight, he said that he trained his man for a victory in a knockout, at that time he was an unlikely perspective. But Ward proved that he could hurt “Krusher”.
The Russian decided that Mauling Clinches Warda was frustrating, but the American was also more effective in the middle, working in a close sucking in difficult hooks and upper. It has not been denyed now that Kovalev felt bodies. As the first half of the competition progressed, his hands were drifting lower, baseing gloves on the hips when he sucking in the air.
He revived too much, leaning after a low blow, as if he wanted to make a judge to intervene. He also left himself earlier in the eighth round, leaning at the waist, trying to emphasize another low blow, but the judge said nothing. Ward could then bring him a leisurely blow, but he refused.
“I was confused,” said Ward. “When I hit him with a shot, he tried to behave as if it was a low blow. It was border. I looked at weeks like” Can I go? I can’t go? “I didn’t want to score a point, I didn’t want something crazy to happen.”
It was far from the threat with which Kovalev began the fight. He caught a higher than Ward, looking like a stronger man. He moved and launched the lead right next to his body. Andre came down the law and tapped on a stab. These shots were not discouraged by Kovaleva, and his march lasted the attacker.
But most importantly, Ward began to choose the land in which the battle fought. Kovalev wanted him at the end of straightforward blows. But Ward either maneuver clearly, circled around him, or flowed forward, binding Sergey more and more moved in clinchs, but, most importantly, they also work on the inside.
He captured Kovaleva under many shoots and made the Russian miss many of his blows. He worries him during the opening of the exchange, especially when Sergey brought his bulky stab, Ward began to include these numerous threats. They were neck and neck after the first half of the fight (on two cards of judges and in my opinion).
But Ward’s strength attacks on the body affected. Kovalev was breathing heavily. Nevertheless, he stabbed firmly. Sergey threw himself right at the end of the seventh round, but only after surviving a wide left hook did he get into the head.
“I think he was almost the same as for the first time, so I knew what he liked to do and what he didn’t like to do. A high -quality warrior, but I was able to do several different things tonight,” Ward said.
“I am not fighting a C -class warrior. I fight the world champion, so he doesn’t separate you much in this kind of fights.”
But he added: “I am used to the vigilance of the uncomfortable. I train this way. I knew that he was approaching the round. I could say.”
When Ward began to wear in the competition, the decisive right cross began.
The blow drilled Kovalev’s jaw, wounded him like never before. It was a moment of truth.
From there, Sergey solved, rolled up by the ring, when Andre was tearing from the front. Kovalev shot, imprisoned on the ropes. Even with the last blow, he was in a bad position, there is nowhere to go. It is straightforward to understand why the judge who had to give his judgment at this wild moment spared him a further punishment.
“He was on his feet. I showed that I could hurt a larger man,” said Ward. “I did what I had to … Ref may allow it a little longer. But it’s not my fault. This is not my problem. I did my job.”
Sometimes even a knockout can be questioned. But Ward is undoubtedly the best weight for airy in the world. It dominates in its second weight class. After shocking Mikkel Kessler, controlling Carl Froch and taking Chad Dawson, this win is another key moment in search of size.
“It seems that they are constantly knocking the giants one by one,” says Ward. “Can I now get to the pound list for a pound? Is it possible?”
I suspect yes.
Boxing History
Editor selection: When Carlos Zaryate, Alfonso Zamora and the invader on his fronts went crazy in Los Angeles
Published
1 day agoon
May 3, 2025
It was an exotic fight, with-men, two fighters from the promised land of boxers on an insignificant Inglewood forum. He was out of reach, foreign in every way for a British fight fan. It took me over 30 years to finally watch the fight from 1977 between Carlos Zaate I Alfonso Zamora. The reports were absorbed, the iconic status of the fight protected for a long time against watching the miracle of the fight. They were both world champions in Bantamweight, both undefeated, both adolescent and at some point, the godfather of Mexican boxing, Arturo “Cuyo” Hernandez, managed and managed them. His role is part of the story. They were not only invincible, they were ruthless, able to finish men with almost every blow. Zarys was 25 years aged, WBC champion and undefeated in 45 fights, and 44 ended quickly. Zamora was 23 years aged, WBA master and stopped or knocked on a senseless each of the 29 men he met. It was not an ordinary fight in the times of great boxing history, not a fight that has ever been in danger. In the decade, the decade, a decade, when any nostalgia struggles with the splendor of the day, the two little ones Mexicans shared several rounds of size. They belong, they are history.
However, before the first bell on the night of genius and madness, it is necessary to travel a little further in your schedules. We all know that the biggest fights in history are not the number of cases, they happen because of pride, stupidity, harm, rights and hundreds of external reasons that motivate the warrior.
Hernandez sold a contract for $ 40,000 to the boxer’s father. He never offered ZARAT’s contract for sale. This movement was personal and the plain feud of blood was inevitable from the perceived betrayal. But Hernandez was a ruthless man, and business in boxing is always to be only a business. However, Zamora was a traitor to the Clan, an enemy.
“I liked the boy, still like that. But to get rid of my father, I would sell a Pinto bean sack,” said Hernandez. This is a fight.
Kabala Aged Los Angeles Fight Fight entered this contract, promising each boxer a record bag of $ 125,000. The seventies were probably the last decade in which Los Angeles took place on the highest box of boxing, and when the city delivered itself, it delivered. The fight was agreed to one pound above Bantam’s weight limit, it would be only for the Macho belt and everyone left the ring as a master.
The forum was in a part of the city, often called Little Mexico, and in the night 13,966 tickets sold. This place was sweated, don’t make a mistake. The problem was that we did not deny it – it was expected, and the police were in their characteristic white helmets with their naked desire for confrontation. Crosses in the ring, looking for a pliable head to bury your long sticks. And, like fans, they would not be disappointed.
Richard Steele is the third man.
After only 54 seconds, the opening round is happening something really crazy. The fragility of the blows, the intensity of both boxers is interrupted when a fat man wearing a cozy white vest and a pair of gray fronts and climbs the ropes. The man gets between two boxers, raises his finger, has something to say, is on a mission, and then takes the pose kung fu. It happens that the fight has stopped and Steele just looks. The man just stands there.
Then the white helmets correspond and attack the ring. It’s wild, trust me. Five police of riots evict a man from the ring, the package and sticks him while flying. Then he is pulled and kicked from the ring, and his departure screams Zakopane near Ryki, when the boxers throw blows again. The fight is not even a minute.
Every blow is cruel, they fight, as if there was something bad on the line, and Zarys is hurt in the first. This is the fight of miracles and in the third round of Zamora begins to disappear. Zarys drops his great rival in the third. After the fourth Zamor, it is more than twice as much, she once hit tidy and slow by Zara. I would like to be there in affordable places for this fight.
When Zamora is on the back for the second time in the fourth round. His father climbs through the ropes and throws a moist towel from surrender to his son and lands on his face. However, he does not approach his affected boy. The fight officially ended in 71 seconds of the round. But Zamora SNR has unfinished business and she bursts Hernandez with a blow or two or three. The boxer is still on the floor when the ring is again besieged and the men begin to throw blows at each other.
Riot police return, this time six of them, and they are lost in a swing in a low -circuit 30, which took over the ring. It was the only possible ending.
Zamora lost the title in the next fight, lost three of the next seven and left boxing when he was only 26 years aged. It is rarely mentioned on the lists of Mexican idols.
Zarys lost the title next year with Wilfredo Gomez, lost over 15 rounds with Lupe Pintor in 1979 and gave up in 1988 after losing another fight with Daniel Zaragosis.
Zarys is a great Mexican, he won this fight, and his position will never have doubts. It was a fight that could permanently change man. The fate and life of a comic superhero on the Y fronts remain unknown. What a fight.

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