Canelo Álvarez returns to fight in Mexico after 11 and a half years and his rival believes he is King Carlos

Saulo Alvarez he was just 21 when he knocked out the Puerto Rican in the fifth round Kermit Citron on November 26, 2011 at the Plaza de Toros in Mexico City to retain the super welterweight title for the third time world boxing council. Four thousand one hundred and seventy-nine days later and with another ten crowns on his resume, Cinnamon he will still fight in his own country this Saturday when he displays his four super middleweight belts against the British John Ryder at the Chivas de Guadalajara stadium. The night can be watched from 8pm on ESPN and Star+, although the Starfight will begin after midnight.

The contest will mark the redhead’s return to the ring after nearly eight months and a visit to the operating room. Her last appearance, on September 17 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, ended in a victory on points against Gennady Golovkinwhich closed the trilogy that had its first two chapters on the same stage in September 2017, in a match that ended in a draw, and a year later, with a Mexican victory.

After beating the Kazakh, Álvarez had to undergo an operation on his left wrist, which prevented him from training for a month and a half.

Now he will make his second presentation as the undisputed monarch of the 168-kilogram category to which his 32-year-old body seems to have adapted very well, which he wears more than 17 years of professionalism and 62 fightswith a record of 58 wins, 2 losses and 2 draws).

His big target is 175 pounds however, as he aims for a September rematch with the Russian. Dmitry Bivolmiddleweight champion world boxing associationwho beat him in May of last year.

After 22 consecutive appearances in the United States, the boxer born in San Agustín, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, will be the protagonist of his 35th fight in his country. Of the previous 34, he won 33, including three against their Argentine rivals: Carlos Leonardo Herrera and Carlos Baldomir from Santa Fe and Luciano Cuello from La Plata.

The only one who managed to break even, in his fifth rental outing and when he was just 15 years old, was Jorge Juárez. All these records belong to the prehistory of Cinnamonbecome a superstar today.

Álvarez’s return to Mexico had been brewing for about five years, as much admired by his followers as he was criticized by his detractors. Several times it has been hypothesized with presentations in Mexico City or Guadalajara, but so far it had never materialized. For this to happen, the boxer has agreed to pocket much lower earnings than he often gets in the United States: for this fight he will receive around 15 million dollarswhile for his last performance against Golovkin he received 65 million.

“We had offers from different parts of the world and the money was very different. I told Saúl that we had an offer up here or we had Mexico down here, but he insisted on doing it in his country. Obviously money is important, but memories, photos and videos are even more so,” he said. Eddie Hearnthe promoter of the show.

The super middleweight champion will have the pleasure of sharing an evening with his nephew for the first time Johansen Alvarez Suarezson of Gonzalo, one of six male brothers of Cinnamon. The 19-year-old, who will face Johan Rodriguez Arreguin In the super featherweight division he has already had seven professional fights, in which he had six wins and one draw.

He Showwhich will be part of the celebrations of the bicentenary of the declaration of Jalisco as a free and sovereign state (it will take place on June 16), has generated enormous expectations and is expected to 56,000 people give the present to the Chivas stadium, located in Zapopan, the most populous municipality in the state, on the border with Guadalajara.

Tickets, with prices from 20.7 to 3,029 dollars, are practically sold out and the resale has been working hard for weeks. The Jalisco government bought 8,000 tickets and raffled off people with disabilities and primary and secondary school students.

This party will be attended by an embarrassing guest who will have a privileged seat in the stadium during the fight: John Ryder. Hardly anyone places in this man born 34 years ago in London even half of the trust he showed whenever he held a microphone close to his mouth.

“This May 6th the crown will be presented to King Carlos in Westminster Abbey and to me in Jalisco as the new super middleweight king,” he predicted. No one doubts the enthronement of the eldest son of the late monarch Elizabeth II, but very few bet on a victory of the challenger in Mexico.

The English southpaw is the interim champion and mandatory challenger for the World Boxing Organization at 168 pounds. He won the title and this privileged position on November 26 last year, when a stroke of luck helped him beat his undefeated compatriot Zack Parker at London’s O2 Arena: A broken right hand in the fourth round knocked out his opponent, who had led 39-37 on two scorecards up to that point (the remainder were tied 38-38).

In a modest service record that includes 32 wins (18 before the limit) and 5 losses, the most notable line, along with the success against Parker, is the February 2022 win against the former middleweight champion of the world Daniel Jacobs. Its winners include Billy Joe Saunders, Callum Smith and rocky Fielding, three men who Cinnamon easily defeated. Shortly before Smith, in November 2019 in Liverpool, he made his first unsuccessful attempt to get an ecumenical belt. The second will be this Saturday and it doesn’t seem like an easy task for him.