Canelo Alvarez is a multi-weight world champion who fought and beat many of the best of his time, and he’s not done just yet either.
Last time out he came up against a boxer who might be one of the very best boxers that ever lived, and lost a points decision to Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford.
That happens and Crawford has beaten everyone else so nothing strange about that.
How would Alvarez had faired against a prime Bernard ‘The Executioner’ Hopkins however if they had fought?
The two were separated by maybe a decade or so, maybe a little more, from that never happening but it would have been a natural fight to make due to their accomplishments and both being big in America and Latin America.
How Canelo May Have Done With A Prime Bernard Hopkins
Alvarez while being a clever boxer himself didn’t have the craftiness that Hopkins had but in his prime Canelo Alvarez was a force at 160 pounds and showed this in some fights with Gennady Golovkin.
It maybe would pit a battle of wits against one another early on and maybe Alvarez’s power against Hopkins’ superior reach and jab as well.
Hopkins was a very hard man to beat at middleweight in his prime and it is hard to say how it would have went exactly.
Maybe a close Hopkins points decision but Alvarez in his prime at middleweight was a monster and walked through many coming at him.
It might have been a 50/50 fight.
