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Canelo Álvarez: Career Record, Losses and Every Fight Listed
Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez is a Mexican professional boxer from Jalisco who has won world titles in four weight classes and became the first undisputed super middleweight champion of the four belt era. He turned professional at fifteen, has fought 68 times as a professional, and holds a record of 63 wins, 3 losses and 2 draws with 39 wins inside the distance, verified on September 1, 2026. He remains an active fighter. The shape of his career is unusual for a modern star. Most fighters who become the sport's biggest attraction do it by avoiding risk. Álvarez did the opposite in a specific and expensive way: he fought Floyd Mayweather at twenty three and lost, then spent the next twelve years fighting the best available opponent at four different weights, losing twice more and winning everything else. That is why his record reads the way it does, and why the three defeats are more interesting than the sixty three wins. What follows is a full reference page built from primary record sources and commission documents: every professional bout, the scorecards that decided the close ones, the money as published by named outlets rather than guessed at, and the technical reasons the fights went the way they did. Where sources disagree, and on his listed height they genuinely do, both figures appear. Álvarez lost the undisputed super middleweight championship to Terence Crawford by unanimous decision on September 13, 2025 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, in front of an announced 70,482 people. As of September 2026 he holds no world title, having held all four super middleweight belts from November 2021. His professional record stands at 63-3-2 with 39 stoppage wins, and the three men who have beaten him are Mayweather, Dmitry Bivol and Crawford. Canelo Álvarez Quick Facts Verified career and physical data for Saúl Álvarez, current as of September 1, 2026. Record 63-3-2 (W-L-D) 39 KO Status Active Nickname Canelo Division Light middleweight to light heavyweight Nationality 🇲🇽 Mexico Age 36born July 18, 1990 Height 171 cm 5 ft 7½ in Weight 76.2 kg 168 lb (super middleweight limit) Pro debut October 29, 2005 Years active 2005 to present 21 years Team Canelo Team, San Diego Social @canelo Boxing Gear Early Life and the Álvarez Family Trade Saúl Álvarez was born on July 18, 1990 in Jalisco, the youngest of eight children of Santos Álvarez and Ana María Barragán. Reputable sources place the birth itself in different municipalities. Premier Boxing Champions, the platform that has broadcast him, lists Guadalajara. CNN en Español gives Tlajomulco de Zúñiga and describes a childhood in San Agustín on the city's edge. Forbes, in a long profile of his businesses, writes that he was raised in Juanacatlán, roughly twenty miles southeast of Guadalajara. All three are within the same metropolitan orbit and none contradicts the others about the life, only about the pin on the map. The family sold paletas. His parents had moved to Jalisco from Michoacán and worked the frozen fruit bar trade out of the Mercado de San Juan de Dios and on public transport, and the boy went with his father. He tells that story himself. The site that carries his name opens with a line about the red haired child who sold popsicles with his dad and became a world champion, which is a piece of self mythology that happens to be documented rather than invented. The nickname arrived before the boxing did. "Canelo" is Spanish for cinnamon, and it was fixed on him for the red hair, the fair skin and the freckles, first by neighbourhood children and later by the gym. In a family of eight in western Mexico, red hair is a permanent identifier, and it became a commercial asset later in ways nobody could have predicted in 1997. He was not the first fighter in the house. He was the last. Seven Álvarez brothers boxed professionally, and on June 28, 2008 in Zapopan all seven appeared on the same professional card, a feat Guinness World Records certifies as the most siblings to fight in a single professional boxing event. Rigoberto Álvarez, the eldest of the boxing brothers, went furthest before Saúl did: he won the interim WBA light middleweight title on October 10, 2010 by split decision over Nobuhiro Ishida, and lost it to Austin Trout in Guadalajara the following February. Two and a half years later Saúl beat Trout in San Antonio, which is the kind of symmetry that no promoter arranges. This matters for understanding what he does in a ring. He did not learn boxing at thirteen from a coach and a manual. He learned it in a house where six older brothers were already professional prizefighters, in a state that produces a particular kind of fighter. The Mexican school prizes body punching, counterpunching off a compact guard and a refusal to give ground, and the lineage of Mexican boxers that runs through Julio César Chávez and Marco Antonio Barrera is the tradition he was handed rather than one he chose. The Reynoso family took him at thirteen. José "Chepo" Reynoso and his son Eddy first worked with him at the Julián Magdaleno gym in Guadalajara, and the arrangement has never broken. Chepo told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2016 that they had been together twelve or thirteen years by then. Eddy Reynoso, who won the Boxing Writers Association of America's trainer of the year award for 2019, was still described in the boxing press as Álvarez's trainer and manager in April 2026. Twenty three years with the same corner is close to unheard of at this level of the sport. Amateur Career and What the Record Actually Shows The amateur record most commonly printed for Saúl Álvarez is 44 wins and 2 losses, and it should be treated as a promotional figure rather than a verified one. Premier Boxing Champions publishes 44-2 with 12 knockouts. BoxRec's own biography flags the problem in plain language, noting that some sources give him around 20 amateur bouts and others give the 44-2 mark. No record from the Federación Mexicana de Boxeo or an international amateur body is publicly retrievable to settle it. That uncertainty is worth stating rather than smoothing over, because the amateur phase was short and the professional one started absurdly early. He was fifteen years and three months old at his professional debut. Mexico's licensing regime at the time permitted it; most jurisdictions would not. The practical consequence is that the education that other fighters get in headgear at national tournaments, he got in four and six round professional fights in small halls in Jalisco, for purses that Forbes later described as around forty dollars. There is a second consequence, and it shows up in the record table below. Between October 2005 and December 2010 he had 36 professional fights. That is more than most current world champions have in a full career. By the time he was twenty he had been a professional for five years, and the volume explains something about his ring economy that pure talent does not: he learned to conserve energy, to win rounds without spending, and to fight three or four times a year against opponents chosen to teach him something specific. Twenty One Years as a Professional Pro Debut and the Jalisco Years Saúl Álvarez made his professional debut on October 29, 2005 at the Arena Chololo Larios in Tonalá, Jalisco, stopping Abraham González in the fourth round. He was fifteen. DAZN, which later paid him more money than any broadcaster in boxing history, published the venue and the result when it compiled his career record, and the pairing of that arena with that eventual contract is the whole arc of his career in one line. The first three years read like an apprenticeship rather than a career. He fought nine times in 2006, seven times in 2007, eight times in 2008. Almost all of it was in Jalisco and neighbouring states. The one blemish is the fifth fight of his life: a split draw with Jorge Juárez on June 17, 2006 over four rounds. It is one of only two draws on his record and the only one nobody argues about. Two names in that early stretch matter more than the rest. Miguel Vázquez, then a teenage prospect and later the holder of the IBF lightweight title for four years, fought him twice: a four round split decision for Álvarez in January 2006 and a ten round unanimous decision in June 2008. Vázquez is a difficult, awkward, defensively minded boxer, and being made to work him out twice before turning eighteen was an education. Francisco Villanueva fought him three times across 2006 and 2008, which is a piece of trivia that also tells you how small the pool was in those years. Moving Through Four Weight Classes Álvarez has held world titles at light middleweight, middleweight, super middleweight and light heavyweight, and the way he moved between them was rarely a simple upward drift. It was closer to a series of targeted raids. He won his first world title at light middleweight on March 5, 2011, taking the vacant WBC belt from Matthew Hatton by unanimous decision. He was twenty. He defended that title six times and unified it on April 20, 2013 by beating Austin Trout at the Alamodome in front of 39,247 people, adding the WBA belt and the vacant Ring championship. That version of Álvarez was compact, heavy handed and still learning to fight going backwards. The middleweight phase came with an asterisk that is often ignored. He won the vacant WBC middleweight title from Miguel Cotto on November 21, 2015, but the fight was made at a 155 pound catchweight, five pounds under the divisional limit. He defended it against Amir Khan on May 7, 2016 at another 155 pound catchweight. He did not make the actual middleweight limit of 160 pounds in a title fight until the first Gennadiy Golovkin bout in September 2017. Anyone reading his title history as a straightforward middleweight reign is reading it wrong, and the catchweights were a persistent and legitimate criticism of that period. He jumped two divisions on November 2, 2019 to take the WBO light heavyweight title from Sergey Kovalev, stopping him in the eleventh round, then never fought at 175 pounds again. The move up was a single raid for a belt, and it worked. The attempt to repeat it against Dmitry Bivol on May 7, 2022 did not. Super middleweight became home. He won the WBA and vacant WBC belts from Callum Smith on December 19, 2020, added the WBO from Billy Joe Saunders on May 8, 2021, and took Caleb Plant's IBF belt on November 6, 2021 to become the first undisputed champion at 168 pounds in the four belt era. The World Boxing Council counts nine successful defences of its super middleweight title by Álvarez. He held the division, in one form or another, for close to five years. Signature Wins and the Rivalries That Defined Him The Floyd Mayweather fight on September 14, 2013 is the one that set the terms of everything after it. Álvarez was twenty three, unbeaten in 42 fights, and the fight was made at a 152 pound catchweight. He lost a majority decision at the MGM Grand: Dave Moretti scored it 116-112 and Craig Metcalfe 117-111 for Mayweather, while C.J. Ross turned in a 114-114 card that ended her career in significant fights. The mechanism of the loss was simple and brutal. Mayweather threw 330 jabs and landed 42 percent of them, roughly eleven a round, while Álvarez landed fewer than four a round in return. He could not cut off the ring against a man moving away from him, and from the fourth round the frustration was visible. The event set a Nevada gate record of $20,003,150 and sold a reported 2.2 million pay-per-views. Golovkin was the rivalry, and it ran for five years and 36 rounds. The first fight, on September 16, 2017, was scored a split draw. Moretti had Golovkin 115-113, Don Trella had it 114-114, and Adalaide Byrd had Álvarez 118-110, a card that gave Golovkin two rounds out of twelve and was condemned across the sport within minutes. CompuBox had Golovkin outlanding Álvarez 218 to 169 and landing more punches in ten of the twelve rounds. Álvarez boxed beautifully off the ropes early and then let Golovkin take the territory for long stretches. The rematch on September 15, 2018 is the best fight of his career and the clearest evidence of what he can adjust. He came forward, jabbed first, and made a 36 year old Golovkin fight backwards, which nobody had managed. He led the body punching 46 landed to 8. Golovkin surged from the seventh, hurt him twice in the tenth without dropping him, and the last two rounds were fought at a range where neither man could miss. Moretti and Steve Weisfeld both scored it 115-113 for Álvarez, Glenn Feldman had it even, and the majority decision stood. The third fight, on September 17, 2022 at 168 pounds, was the anticlimax: Álvarez won the first seven rounds comfortably against a 40 year old, faded badly from the eighth, and took a unanimous decision of 116-112, 115-113 and 115-113. Two knockouts deserve their own paragraph because they show a different fighter. Against James Kirkland on May 9, 2015 at Minute Maid Park, in front of 31,588 people, he dropped Kirkland in the first with a straight right, again in the second, and then in the third put him down with an uppercut, watched him rise with his hands down, and hit him with a right hand that knocked him unconscious at 2:19. Against Amir Khan on May 7, 2016 he spent five rounds being outsped, waited until Khan settled square in front of him, and landed one overhand right that ended the fight at 2:37 of the sixth with no count taken. The Billy Joe Saunders fight on May 8, 2021 at AT&T Stadium was a unification and a demonstration of what body and angle work does to a moving southpaw. Álvarez was ahead on all three cards, 78-74, 78-74 and 77-75, when a right uppercut in the eighth round fractured Saunders' right orbital bone in several places. Saunders finished the round, could not see out of the eye, and his corner pulled him out. He had surgery afterwards. The announced crowd of 73,126 was reported as the largest indoor boxing attendance in United States history, though the official Texas figures were lower, at 66,065 tickets sold plus 989 complimentary, and the gate was $9,002,920. Three decisions in the light middleweight and middleweight years still divide people, and they divide on the same fault line. Against Austin Trout on April 20, 2013 he was outworked for stretches by a southpaw jab, dropped Trout with a one-two in the seventh, then did very little for the rest of the fight and still collected cards of 118-109, 116-111 and 115-112. Against Erislandy Lara on July 12, 2014, in a non-title fight that is routinely and wrongly described as a title bout, he landed 23 percent of his total punches against a man who spent the night circling, and won a split decision on the strength of 73 landed power shots to the body. Against Miguel Cotto on November 21, 2015 he took cards of 119-109, 118-110 and 117-111 in a fight nobody watching thought was that wide. The pattern is consistent and worth naming plainly. Judges have repeatedly rewarded the harder, more visibly damaging punch over the busier one when Álvarez is in the ring, and the body work he invests in early reads as effective aggression on a card in a way that a returning jab does not. Whether that is correct scoring or a reputational thumb on the scale is a matter of opinion. That it happened in those three fights is not. The two fights that best show him solving a physical problem are Sergey Kovalev and Callum Smith. Kovalev, on November 2, 2019, was a light heavyweight champion with the reach to keep him out, and for ten rounds it worked; the fight was heading for a contested decision when Álvarez hurt him with a left hook in the eleventh and finished with a right hand at 2:15 without a count being taken. Smith, on December 19, 2020, was six foot three to Álvarez's five foot seven and a half, and the solution was to close the distance in the opening seconds and never allow it to reopen. Through seven rounds Álvarez landed 60 percent of his power punches to Smith's 20 percent, and finished the night having landed 209 of 484 against Smith's 97 of 536. Neither win was pretty. Both were the same idea executed differently: take the range away, and the taller man's advantages become liabilities. Who Has Beaten Canelo Álvarez Three men have beaten Saúl Álvarez in 68 professional fights: Floyd Mayweather on September 14, 2013, Dmitry Bivol on May 7, 2022, and Terence Crawford on September 13, 2025. All three were unanimous or majority decisions. He has never been stopped, never been knocked down in a professional fight, and has never lost twice to the same opponent. The Bivol loss is the most technically instructive of the three. Álvarez moved up to light heavyweight to challenge for the WBA belt and lost 115-113 on all three cards, from Tim Cheatham, Moretti and Weisfeld. Bivol did not do anything exotic. He was bigger, he jabbed, he moved laterally, and he refused to let Álvarez set his feet, which is the precondition for everything Álvarez does well. The arithmetic of that fight is worth keeping: Bivol won the twelfth round on all three cards, and without it the fight is a draw. It was that close on paper and not close at all to watch. Crawford, on September 13, 2025, moved up two divisions and did something similar with more variety. He switched stances, refused to stand in front of Álvarez, and outlanded him 115 of 534 to 99 of 338. Álvarez's power punch numbers were actually better, 83 landed of 260 against Crawford's 70 of 208, which is the signature of a fighter having the more meaningful moments and still losing the fight, because he was not having enough of them. Cheatham and Max De Luca scored it 115-113, Weisfeld 116-112, all for Crawford. Álvarez's own explanation, given to CBS News in July 2026, was that "sometimes we forget the basics and I forgot the basics in that fight." Current Status As of September 1, 2026, Saúl Álvarez holds no world title and has not fought since losing to Terence Crawford on September 13, 2025. He is scheduled to face Christian Mbilli, who is 29-0-1 with 24 knockouts, for the WBC super middleweight championship on October 31, 2026, with the World Boxing Council listing Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as the venue. It would be his 69th professional fight. That bout was first announced for September 12, 2026 and moved. Álvarez gave the new date on The Ariel Helwani Show in July 2026, citing a delayed start to his training camp. He told CBS News on July 31, 2026 that he had spent roughly a year out of the ring after elbow surgery and had resumed full preparation. Mbilli was promoted from interim to full WBC champion and would be making a first defence. Announced fights move, and this one already has, so treat the date as provisional until the fighters are in the ring. His public position on retirement, in the same CBS News interview, was that there is "not very much" left for him to accomplish at 36 and that he continues because he wants to, and that he will know the moment has come when his body stops responding to punches in training the way it always has. That is a statement of intent rather than a plan, and it is the only forward looking thing on this page. Fighting Style Stance, Counterpunching and the Body Attack Saúl Álvarez is an orthodox counterpuncher whose entire game is built on being close enough to hurt you and hard enough to hit that you stop trying. He is listed at 171 centimetres with a 179 centimetre reach, which means he has fought most of his career at a physical disadvantage in height and often in reach, and every structural choice he makes follows from that. The defence is upper body. He rolls, slips and leans rather than blocking, keeps a compact high guard on the lead side, and absorbs punishment on the shoulders and gloves while staying inside punching range. It resembles the shoulder roll family of defences without being a pure version of any of them, and it is why he goes twelve rounds against big punchers without being marked up. Among the four broad boxing styles, he is a counterpuncher who fights at a boxer-puncher's range, not a pressure fighter, and the distinction matters: he wants you to come to him and then punish the entry. The offensive signature is the body. Against Caleb Plant on November 6, 2021 he landed 117 punches in total and 53 of them went downstairs, which is close to half of everything he threw that landed. Against Golovkin in the rematch he outlanded a body punching specialist 46 to 8 to the torso. The left hook to the liver and the right uppercut to the solar plexus are the two shots he builds rounds around, and the tactical logic is patient rather than dramatic: the body work slows the legs, the legs stop moving, and the head becomes available in the ninth round that was unavailable in the third. The uppercut is the finisher. Saunders' orbital bone, Plant's knockdown, the Munguía knockdown in the fourth round on May 4, 2024, all uppercuts thrown at a man leaning in. Álvarez throws it short, from a crouch, without stepping, which is why opponents keep walking into it after eleven years of tape showing them exactly what is coming. The weakness is equally consistent, and all three defeats expose it. He does not cut off a ring well against a mover with size. Mayweather, Bivol and Crawford were all taller or longer or both, all moved laterally, and all declined to trade in the pocket. Against that specific profile his output falls, because his output depends on the opponent giving him something to counter. The Scull fight on May 3, 2025 is the extreme case: a combined 445 punches thrown across twelve rounds, the lowest total in CompuBox's recorded history, with Álvarez responsible for only 152 of them. Has Canelo Álvarez Ever Fought in the UFC? No. Saúl Álvarez has never competed in mixed martial arts and has never appeared in the UFC. He is a professional boxer and every one of his 68 professional contests has been a boxing match under boxing rules. The question appears frequently in search because his September 2025 fight with Terence Crawford was staged at Allegiant Stadium and covered heavily by outlets that also cover the UFC, and because UFC's parent company has since become involved in boxing promotion. None of that puts Álvarez in a cage. He has also never fought an exhibition against a mixed martial artist. Record and Titles The table below lists all 68 professional bouts, most recent first, verified on September 1, 2026 against DAZN's published career record, ESPN's fighter record and the official result sheets of the Nevada State Athletic Commission for the bouts held in that jurisdiction from 2020 onward. One correction is worth making here, because it recurs. Álvarez's record is 63-3-2 across 68 total professional fights. Several fighter database pages and aggregators print 68 as the win column, producing a phantom "68-3-2" that no source with access to the bout list supports. The 68 is the number of fights, not the number of wins. The 39 stoppage wins in this table match the 39 knockouts published independently by ESPN, which is the arithmetic check that confirms the list is complete. Date Opponent Result Method September 13, 2025 Terence Crawford Loss Unanimous decision May 3, 2025 William Scull Win Unanimous decision September 14, 2024 Edgar Berlanga Win Unanimous decision May 4, 2024 Jaime Munguía Win Unanimous decision September 30, 2023 Jermell Charlo Win Unanimous decision May 6, 2023 John Ryder Win Unanimous decision September 17, 2022 Gennadiy Golovkin Win Unanimous decision May 7, 2022 Dmitry Bivol Loss Unanimous decision November 6, 2021 Caleb Plant Win TKO, round 11 May 8, 2021 Billy Joe Saunders Win Retirement, round 8 February 27, 2021 Avni Yıldırım Win Retirement, round 3 December 19, 2020 Callum Smith Win Unanimous decision November 2, 2019 Sergey Kovalev Win KO, round 11 May 4, 2019 Daniel Jacobs Win Unanimous decision December 15, 2018 Rocky Fielding Win TKO, round 3 September 15, 2018 Gennadiy Golovkin Win Majority decision September 16, 2017 Gennadiy Golovkin Draw Split decision (draw) May 6, 2017 Julio César Chávez Jr. Win Unanimous decision September 17, 2016 Liam Smith Win KO, round 9 May 7, 2016 Amir Khan Win KO, round 6 November 21, 2015 Miguel Cotto Win Unanimous decision May 9, 2015 James Kirkland Win KO, round 3 July 12, 2014 Erislandy Lara Win Split decision March 8, 2014 Alfredo Angulo Win TKO, round 10 September 14, 2013 Floyd Mayweather Jr. Loss Majority decision April 20, 2013 Austin Trout Win Unanimous decision September 15, 2012 Josesito López Win TKO, round 5 May 5, 2012 Shane Mosley Win Unanimous decision November 26, 2011 Kermit Cintrón Win TKO, round 5 September 17, 2011 Alfonso Gómez Win TKO, round 6 June 18, 2011 Ryan Rhodes Win TKO, round 12 March 5, 2011 Matthew Hatton Win Unanimous decision December 4, 2010 Lovemore N'dou Win Unanimous decision September 18, 2010 Carlos Baldomir Win KO, round 6 July 10, 2010 Luciano Leonel Cuello Win TKO, round 6 May 1, 2010 José Miguel Cotto Win TKO, round 9 March 6, 2010 Brian Camechis Win KO, round 3 December 5, 2009 Lanardo Tyner Win Unanimous decision September 15, 2009 Carlos Leonardo Herrera Win TKO, round 1 August 8, 2009 Marat Khuzeev Win KO, round 2 June 6, 2009 Jeferson Luis Gonçalo Win KO, round 9 April 11, 2009 Michel Rosales Win TKO, round 10 February 21, 2009 Euri González Win TKO, round 11 January 17, 2009 Luis Antonio Fitch Win TKO, round 1 December 5, 2008 Raúl Pinzón Win TKO, round 1 October 24, 2008 Larry Mosley Win Unanimous decision August 2, 2008 Carlos Adán Jerez Win Unanimous decision June 28, 2008 Miguel Vázquez Win Unanimous decision June 6, 2008 Francisco Villanueva Win Split decision April 18, 2008 Gabriel Martínez Win Retirement, round 11 March 14, 2008 Francisco Villanueva Win TKO, round 9 February 22, 2008 Axel Rodrigo Solís Win KO, round 1 December 15, 2007 Sean Holley Win TKO, round 2 August 31, 2007 Ricardo Cano Win Unanimous decision August 18, 2007 Christian Solano Win Unanimous decision June 1, 2007 Jesús Abel Hernández Win TKO, round 2 May 19, 2007 Víctor Márquez Win KO, round 4 March 30, 2007 Iván Illescas Win KO, round 4 March 2, 2007 Javier Martínez Win TKO, round 8 December 8, 2006 Daniel Martínez Win KO, round 2 September 29, 2006 Francisco Villanueva Win KO, round 5 September 15, 2006 Cristian Hernández Win KO, round 2 July 21, 2006 Juan Hernández Win KO, round 2 June 17, 2006 Jorge Juárez Draw Split decision (draw) February 10, 2006 Pedro López Win KO, round 1 January 20, 2006 Miguel Vázquez Win Split decision November 26, 2005 Pablo Alvarado Win KO, round 2 October 29, 2005 Abraham González Win TKO, round 4 World titles won, in order: WBC light middleweight, vacant, beating Matthew Hatton on March 5, 2011 WBA light middleweight and the vacant Ring light middleweight championship, beating Austin Trout on April 20, 2013 WBC middleweight, vacant, and the Ring middleweight championship, beating Miguel Cotto on November 21, 2015 at a 155 pound catchweight WBO light middleweight, beating Liam Smith on September 17, 2016 WBA (Super) and WBC middleweight, beating Gennadiy Golovkin on September 15, 2018 WBA (Regular) super middleweight, beating Rocky Fielding on December 15, 2018 IBF middleweight, beating Daniel Jacobs on May 4, 2019 WBO light heavyweight, beating Sergey Kovalev on November 2, 2019 WBA (Super), the Ring championship and the vacant WBC super middleweight title, beating Callum Smith on December 19, 2020 WBO super middleweight, beating Billy Joe Saunders on May 8, 2021 IBF super middleweight, beating Caleb Plant on November 6, 2021, completing the undisputed championship IBF super middleweight regained, beating William Scull on May 3, 2025, restoring undisputed status He was stripped of the IBF super middleweight title in July 2024 after the IBF board ruled that his request for an exception to face Edgar Berlanga instead of mandatory challenger William Scull breached its rules on mandatory defences. He won it back from Scull ten months later, then lost all of it to Crawford. He was named fighter of the year for 2019 and 2021 by both the Boxing Writers Association of America and The Ring. How Many Belts Does Canelo Álvarez Hold? Saúl Álvarez holds no world championship belt as of September 2026, having lost all four super middleweight titles to Terence Crawford on September 13, 2025. Across his career he has won twelve separate world championships from five sanctioning bodies in four weight classes, counting the WBC, WBA, WBO and IBF belts plus the Ring championship at three different weights. The number people usually mean when they ask is four, which is how many he held at once between November 2021 and July 2024, and again from May to September 2025. He is the only Mexican fighter to have been undisputed champion in the four belt era, and the first man to be undisputed at 168 pounds. Net Worth and Earnings Published estimates of Saúl Álvarez's net worth are limited, and the most credible of them is Forbes, which estimated in 2023 that he was worth at least $275 million. Figures circulating between roughly $300 million and $500 million come from celebrity net worth aggregators that publish no method and are not treated as sources here. The honest position is that no audited net worth figure for Álvarez exists in public, and that the documented earnings below are the reliable number. What is documented is substantial and named. Forbes ranked him second on its 2026 list of the world's highest paid athletes with $170 million in earnings for the year, in a year when he did not fight, and the profile carrying that figure was last updated on May 22, 2026. Forbes had previously put him fifth on the 2023 list at $110 million, of which only about $10 million came from endorsements. Sportico calculated his career earnings at roughly $550 million by late 2023. The contracts are the reason those annual figures are what they are. ESPN reported in October 2018 that he had signed a five year, eleven fight agreement with DAZN worth $365 million, the largest guaranteed contract in the history of team or individual sport at the time it was signed. A three fight deal with Premier Boxing Champions in 2023 was reported at around $100 million. A four fight arrangement with Riyadh Season, the Saudi entertainment authority headed by Turki Alalshikh, was reported at approximately $400 million. Individual purses, where a commission disclosed them, are smaller and more reliable than the headline contract numbers. His disclosed purse for the Amir Khan fight in May 2016 was $13,309,664 against Khan's $6 million, on an event that grossed $27,707,448. For the Austin Trout fight in April 2013 he was paid $2,300,000 to Trout's $950,000. His reported share of the Golovkin trilogy fight in September 2022 was around $65 million, and reporting around the Crawford fight put his 2025 earnings from that single night between $100 million and $150 million, with roughly $80 million of it from Riyadh Season. Those last figures are reported rather than filed, and should be read as such. The commercial value extends past the fighting. Forbes documented a portfolio in 2023 that included Canelo Energy, a chain of petrol stations in western Mexico, the Upper convenience store chain, Canelo Promotions, an online clothing line, a fitness app, a canned cocktail brand and a taquería run with one of his brothers, valuing the whole group at under $50 million. His name has also become a retail category in its own right, to the point where Canelo Álvarez boxing gloves is a product grouping stores maintain independently of any single manufacturer. Disclosed Purses Against Reported Paydays There is no single per fight figure, because his pay has come from guaranteed contract instalments rather than fight by fight negotiation since 2018. Reported guarantees in the Riyadh Season era have ranged from around $80 million for the Scull fight in May 2025 to a reported $100 million or more for Crawford in September 2025. In the DAZN era, from 2018 to 2021, the eleven fight structure worked out to roughly $33 million per contracted appearance before pay-per-view upside. Any number quoted for a single night should be checked against whether it is a disclosed commission purse, which is verifiable, or a reported contract share, which is not. Personal Life Álvarez married Fernanda Gómez in May 2021 at Guadalajara Cathedral, after a relationship that had run on and off since 2016. He is a father several times over. Reputable sources differ on the count and on the detail, with CNN en Español reporting four children in 2023 and Sports Illustrated reporting five in September 2025 including a daughter born in August 2024. Because the accounts conflict and the children are private individuals, this page states the fact and not the roster. He lives in San Diego, California, where he also trains, and Forbes listed that as his residence when it updated his profile in May 2026. Earlier reporting described him dividing his time between San Diego and Guadalajara. He plays a great deal of golf, by his own account close to daily, at courses in the San Diego area. The one significant controversy of his career is documented and closed. Two samples collected under Voluntary Anti-Doping Association testing on February 17 and February 20, 2018, ahead of a Golovkin rematch then scheduled for May, returned traces of clenbuterol at levels the testing laboratory described as consistent with contaminated meat. The Nevada State Athletic Commission imposed a provisional one year suspension on March 23, 2018, then voted unanimously on April 18 to reduce it to six months with no fine, backdated to the date of the first positive test, making him eligible to fight again in August. The commission's executive director explained the reduction as its standard allowance for fighters who accept responsibility, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported the vote the day it happened. The rematch went ahead on September 15, 2018. The family remains the most striking thing about him away from the ring, and it is not sentiment. Seven brothers boxed for a living. Rigoberto held a version of a world title. The 2008 Zapopan card on which all seven fought is in the Guinness record books. Álvarez told CBS News in July 2026 that his father Santos taught him hard work, honesty and discipline, and that this is what he took out of the paleta trade rather than any resentment of it. Mexican boxing's commercial world has grown around fighters like him, and brands such as No Boxing No Life build entire product lines on the identity his generation made global.
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Floyd Mayweather: Record, Age, Height and Full Fight List
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is an American professional boxer who retired in 2017 with a record of 50 wins and no defeats, having won world titles in five weight classes between 1998 and 2015. He is the only boxer in history to reach fifty professional fights without a loss or a draw. At 49 he is preparing to put that record back on the line. For most of his career the number was the argument. Supporters pointed at the zero, critics pointed at the names beside it, and the noise around the man tended to drown out what he was actually doing inside the ropes. What follows is the career as the record shows it: all fifty fights, the divisions he moved through, the defensive system he built, and where things stand in the autumn of 2026. Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. was born on February 24, 1977 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and turned professional on October 11, 1996. His professional record is 50 wins, 0 losses and 0 draws, with 27 wins by stoppage. He won 15 major world titles across five weight divisions, from super featherweight up to light middleweight. His last completed professional bout was a tenth round stoppage of Conor McGregor on August 26, 2017. He is alive, and as of August 31, 2026 he is signed to a professional rematch with Manny Pacquiao scheduled for September 2026. Boxing Gear Floyd Mayweather Quick Facts Career and biographical data for Floyd Mayweather Jr., verified August 31, 2026. Record 50-0-0 (50-0-0) 27 KO Status Active Nickname Money, earlier Pretty Boy Division Super featherweight to light middleweight Nationality 🇺🇸 United States Age 49 born February 24, 1977 Height 173 cm 5 ft 8 in Pro debut October 11, 1996 Years active 1996 to present 21 years of professional competition Team Mayweather Boxing Club, Las Vegas Social @floydmayweather Who is Floyd Mayweather? Floyd Mayweather Jr. is a retired American world champion boxer who built a 50 fight professional career without a single defeat, and who has since become one of the highest earning athletes the sport has produced. He fought from 1996 to 2017, held 15 major world titles, and moved through five weight classes without ever being outweighed into a bad night. His significance rests on two things that do not usually sit together. The first is longevity at the top: he beat champions across three decades of the sport, from Genaro Hernández in 1998 to Manny Pacquiao in 2015, and the level of opposition rose rather than fell as he aged. The second is the way he won. Mayweather was a defensive specialist in an era that rewarded volume, and he made a career out of being difficult to hit cleanly for twelve rounds. Short answer: he is the only professional boxer to finish fifty bouts unbeaten, and the record still stands as of August 2026. Early life and background Mayweather was born into the trade. His father, Floyd Mayweather Sr., was a welterweight who lost to Sugar Ray Leonard by knockout in 1978. His uncle Roger Mayweather held world titles at super featherweight and light welterweight. There was never a moment where the family sat him down and asked whether he wanted to try boxing. Grand Rapids and a house built around the gym He grew up in and around Grand Rapids, Michigan, and boxing was the constant. He was in gyms from early childhood and worked under his father and his uncles rather than through a school or club programme. The amateur career ran long enough and well enough to put him on the United States team for Atlanta at 19. The 1996 Olympics and the Todorov decision Mayweather won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, losing a contested semi final decision to Bulgaria's Serafim Todorov. The scoring in that bout was disputed at the time and remains the reference point for people who argue his amateur career ended a medal short of where it should have. It is also the last time an official decision went against him in any ring. He turned professional five months later, at 19, signing to fight at super featherweight rather than chasing the heavier divisions where the money already was. Professional career The career splits cleanly into three phases, and they are not evenly weighted. The first six years were a climb. The middle stretch was a series of division changes. The last decade was the pay-per-view era, when Mayweather became the business as well as the fighter. The super featherweight climb, 1996 to 2001 Mayweather debuted on October 11, 1996 with a second round stoppage of Roberto Apodaca, then fought seventeen more times in under two years. His first world title came in his eighteenth bout, when he stopped Genaro Hernández in eight rounds on October 3, 1998 to take the WBC super featherweight belt at 21 years old. The defining fight of the period was against Diego Corrales on January 20, 2001. Corrales was unbeaten, taller, and widely fancied to be the man who would finally give Mayweather trouble. Mayweather dropped him five times and stopped him in the tenth, and did it without taking meaningful punishment. That performance, more than any belt, is what moved him from prospect to problem. Through lightweight and light welterweight, 2002 to 2005 He moved up and took the WBC lightweight title from José Luis Castillo in April 2002 by unanimous decision. That fight is the one honest gap in the perfect record. Castillo pressed him hard, several observers scored it the other way, and Mayweather has acknowledged fighting with a shoulder problem. He took the immediate rematch eight months later and won it more clearly, which is the part of the story usually left out. Two more divisions followed. He took the WBC light welterweight title by stopping Arturo Gatti in six rounds in June 2005, in a fight that showed the gulf between a good pressure fighter and a great counter puncher. The welterweight and pay-per-view era, 2006 to 2017 Welterweight is where the career became an industry. Wins over Zab Judah and Carlos Baldomir in 2006 established him at 147 pounds. The split decision over Oscar De La Hoya in May 2007 broke pay-per-view records and made him the sport's biggest draw. He then beat Ricky Hatton, Juan Manuel Márquez, Shane Mosley, Victor Ortiz, Miguel Cotto, Canelo Álvarez, Marcos Maidana twice, Manny Pacquiao and Andre Berto. The Pacquiao fight on May 2, 2015 arrived roughly five years after the public wanted it, and Mayweather won a clear unanimous decision that most viewers found less exciting than the build up promised. He retired after outpointing Berto that September, then returned once in 2017 to stop Conor McGregor in a bout between a boxer and a mixed martial artist making his professional boxing debut. Floyd Mayweather fight record The shape of the record matters more than the total. Twenty seven of the fifty wins came by stoppage, but almost all of those arrived in the first half of the career: after the Ricky Hatton stoppage in December 2007, Mayweather went to the scorecards in nine of his last eleven bouts. The level also rose late rather than early, which is the reverse of the usual pattern for an ageing fighter. Opponent names below are listed as they appear on the official record. Date Opponent Result Method August 26, 2017 Conor McGregor Win TKO 10 September 12, 2015 Andre Berto Win UD 12 May 2, 2015 Manny Pacquiao Win UD 12 September 13, 2014 Marcos Maidana Win UD 12 May 3, 2014 Marcos Maidana Win MD 12 September 14, 2013 Canelo Álvarez Win MD 12 May 4, 2013 Robert Guerrero Win UD 12 May 5, 2012 Miguel Cotto Win UD 12 September 17, 2011 Victor Ortiz Win KO 4 May 1, 2010 Shane Mosley Win UD 12 September 19, 2009 Juan Manuel Márquez Win UD 12 December 8, 2007 Ricky Hatton Win TKO 10 May 5, 2007 Oscar De La Hoya Win SD 12 November 4, 2006 Carlos Baldomir Win UD 12 April 8, 2006 Zab Judah Win UD 12 November 19, 2005 Sharmba Mitchell Win TKO 6 June 25, 2005 Arturo Gatti Win RTD 6 January 22, 2005 Henry Bruseles Win TKO 8 May 22, 2004 DeMarcus Corley Win UD 12 November 1, 2003 Phillip N'dou Win TKO 7 April 19, 2003 Victoriano Sosa Win UD 12 December 7, 2002 José Luis Castillo Win UD 12 April 20, 2002 José Luis Castillo Win UD 12 November 10, 2001 Jesús Chávez Win RTD 9 May 26, 2001 Carlos Hernandez Win UD 12 January 20, 2001 Diego Corrales Win TKO 10 October 21, 2000 Emanuel Augustus Win TKO 9 March 18, 2000 Gregorio Vargas Win UD 12 September 11, 1999 Carlos Gerena Win RTD 7 May 22, 1999 Justin Juuko Win KO 9 February 17, 1999 Carlos Rios Win UD 12 December 19, 1998 Angel Manfredy Win TKO 2 October 3, 1998 Genaro Hernández Win RTD 8 June 14, 1998 Tony Pep Win UD 10 April 18, 1998 Gustavo Cuello Win UD 10 March 23, 1998 Miguel Melo Win TKO 3 February 28, 1998 Sam Girard Win KO 2 January 9, 1998 Hector Arroyo Win TKO 5 November 20, 1997 Angelo Nunez Win TKO 3 October 14, 1997 Felipe Garcia Win KO 6 September 6, 1997 Louie Leija Win TKO 2 July 12, 1997 Jesus Roberto Chavez Win TKO 5 June 14, 1997 Larry O'Shields Win UD 6 May 9, 1997 Tony Duran Win TKO 1 April 12, 1997 Bobby Giepert Win TKO 1 March 12, 1997 Kino Rodriguez Win TKO 1 February 1, 1997 Edgar Ayala Win TKO 2 January 18, 1997 Jerry Cooper Win TKO 1 November 30, 1996 Reggie Sanders Win UD 4 October 11, 1996 Roberto Apodaca Win TKO 2 Fighting style and technique Mayweather fought out of an orthodox stance at 173 cm with a 183 cm reach, which is long for the divisions he campaigned in. His approach was built on not being there, and it worked because his defence generated offence rather than simply avoiding it. The shoulder roll, and what people get wrong about it His signature look was the Philly shell, a guard with the lead shoulder raised, the lead arm across the body and the rear hand at the cheek. The common error is calling it a Mayweather invention. It is an old Philadelphia gym posture that Floyd Sr. and Roger both used, and Mayweather inherited it rather than designed it. What he added was the timing. The raised shoulder deflects the opponent's straight right, and the roll that follows loads his own right hand from a position where the opponent's guard is already committed. Fighters who pressed him were not simply missing. They were feeding him. The lead right hand and the check hook Against pressure fighters Mayweather led with the right hand rather than the jab, a low percentage punch for most boxers that worked for him because his opponents were walking onto it. Against fighters who charged in straight lines he used a check hook, pivoting away while landing, which is how Ricky Hatton ended up on the canvas in the tenth round in 2007. The honest limitation is that it was a system built on speed and reflex, both of which decline. Castillo in 2002 and Maidana in their first fight in 2014 both had success by crowding him and refusing to lead into the shoulder, and both fights were closer than the surrounding hype suggested. The Mayweather corner: Floyd Sr. and Roger Two men trained Floyd Mayweather Jr. for almost his entire career, and they coached him differently. Floyd Mayweather Sr., his father, is a defensive technician who built the shell and the footwork. Roger Mayweather, his uncle, was the more aggressive teacher, pushing combinations and the lead right, and he held the corner for most of the championship years including the De La Hoya and Hatton fights. Roger Mayweather died on March 17, 2020 at the age of 58. He had held two world titles of his own, at super featherweight and light welterweight, and was named trainer of the year in 2007. Floyd Sr. returned as head trainer for the later part of the career and worked the corner for the Pacquiao and Berto fights. The family also built the business. Mayweather Promotions was founded in 2007 and The Money Team followed as the brand around it, which is why the initials TMT appear on the gear in almost every photograph from the second half of the career. Floyd Mayweather's children and personal life Floyd Mayweather Jr. has four children: Koraun, Iyanna, Zion and Jirah. He has never married, which is the direct answer to a question a large number of people type every month. Beyond that, this article does not go. Mayweather's private life has generated a great deal of coverage of varying reliability, and material that is not documented by a source with editorial standards has no place on a reference page about a living person. What Floyd Mayweather is doing now Short answer: Floyd Mayweather is alive, is 49 years old, and is scheduled to return to professional boxing against Manny Pacquiao in September 2026. The periodic reports of his death are a hoax. They follow a pattern common to celebrity death rumours online, they have never been carried by any outlet with editorial standards, and they are contradicted by his continuous public activity, including the promotion of the fight described below. Between 2018 and 2025 he fought a series of exhibition bouts, none of which counted on his professional record. The September 2026 bout is different. Pacquiao's team stated in April 2026 that Mayweather had formally agreed the rematch would be a sanctioned professional contest rather than an exhibition, which means the 50-0 record is genuinely at stake for the first time since 2017. The scheduling has moved more than once and should be treated as provisional. The bout was announced on February 23, 2026 for September 19 at the Sphere in Las Vegas, then relocated on April 30 and rescheduled on May 8 to September 26, with the Las Vegas venue still unconfirmed as of August 31, 2026. Netflix is the announced broadcaster. Titles and achievements Mayweather won 15 major world titles across five weight classes. The spread across divisions is the part that resists argument: he started at 130 pounds and finished at 154, a 24 pound climb, and he won a recognised world title at every stop. The full ladder of divisions and their limits is set out in our guide to boxing weight classes. Division Limit Main title Years Super featherweight 130 lb WBC 1998 to 2001 Lightweight 135 lb WBC 2002 to 2003 Light welterweight 140 lb WBC 2005 Welterweight 147 lb WBC, IBF, The Ring 2006 to 2015 Light middleweight 154 lb WBC 2007 Alongside the belts sit an Olympic bronze medal from Atlanta in 1996 and, on the commercial side, top place on the Forbes list of the world's highest paid athletes in 2015, when the magazine put his earnings for the year at 300 million dollars, and again in 2018. Sources used for this article: Olympedia for the Olympic result, BoxRec and Tapology for the professional record, and CNN for the death of Roger Mayweather. The record was verified on August 31, 2026.
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