One of the sport of boxing’s top coaches has cautioned Saul Canelo Alvarez might be done at the highest level of professional boxing.
And he might be quite right.
The Mexican boxing star Canelo Alvarez has not looked anything like his old self in recent years.
This as boxing as a sport looks more like itself all the time and returns to the masses daily.
Not the case of Canelo.
Former pound for pound number one boxer in the world Terence Crawford’s coach Brian ‘Bomac’ Mcintyre has said Canelo will not be the same after the Christian Mbilli fight.
Strange comments.
First off — boxing superstar Saul Canelo Alvarez is due to fight Christian Mbilli this coming September on September 12th.
Mbilli with respect is an absolute nobody compared to who Canelo used to box and contend with.
Alvarez used to be the best pound for pound boxer in the sport.
He has fought the likes of Floyd Mayweather, middleweight all time great Gennady Golovkin, Shane Mosley, Terence Crawford, Dmitry Bivol and more.
They are some of the creme de la creme of professional boxing of the last 20 years and the 21st century.
You mean to tell us, Bomac, that Canelo has fought the above names, some all time legends in the entire sport and he won’t be the same after fighting Christian Mbilli?
Rubbish.
Canelo Alvarez he is basically saying is done at the highest level of boxing with those comments.
We believe this to be the case as well.
Christian Mbilli, a Cameroon-born boxer from Canada has fought no one really and Alvarez would have beat him with one hand tied behind his back a few years ago.
Alvarez lost his last fight last year in 2025 by unanimous decision at super-middleweight to Terence Crawford.
Canelo’s professional boxing record at this time is currently 63-3-2-39 KO.
Alvarez is just 35 years old but his focus appears elsewhere from boxing in recent years on Taco businesses in Mexico with his brother and so on.
And on international travel and that.
If he was focused on boxing he would already be back in the ring by now against a proper opponent as well.
Boxing is flying and will do so now and into the future but Alvarez is not what he once was.
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