Canelo Álvarez

Santos Saúl Canelo Álvarez Barragán, born in 1990, is a Mexican professional boxer who has held world championships in four weight classes, from light middleweight to light heavyweight, with unified titles in three of them. He began his professional career at 15 and at 20 became the youngest boxer to claim the WBC light middleweight title, in 2011. He lost to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2013, beat Miguel Cotto for the WBC and Ring middleweight titles in 2016, drew with Gennady Golovkin in 2017 and beat him in 2018. In 2021 he became the first boxer to become undisputed super middleweight champion, and a two-time undisputed champion in 2025. The Ring ranked him the best boxer in the world, pound for pound, from November 2019 to May 2022, and he is consistently among the highest-paid athletes in the world.