Floyd Mayweather: “When Canelo Fought Me, He Was In His Prime, I Was An Old Man”

By: Hans Themistode

Canelo Alvarez is at present having fun with his time on prime of the boxing world. The Mexican native is recent off a dominant eighth-round stoppage victory over Billy Joe Saunders this previous weekend. The win for Alvarez netted him one other world title within the tremendous middleweight division. Now, the 30-year-old is merely one belt away from changing into the primary undisputed 168 pounder of all time.

Whereas Alvarez is taken into account by most as the perfect fighter on this planet, he nonetheless vividly remembers the evening he fought Floyd Mayweather in 2013. The outcomes have been the identical as each Mayweather combat, which means, he dominated. On the time, Alvarez was nonetheless a reasonably new face to the boxing world. The pound-for-pound star admits that he confronted Mayweather fully too younger.

Now, nonetheless, with Alvarez feeling as if he has reached his peak, the unified tremendous middleweight titlist believes that in the event that they have been each smack dab in the midst of their primes on the identical time, the outcomes can be vastly totally different.

“If we have been each at our prime, our greatest prime, he’d don’t have anything to do with me,” mentioned Alvarez throughout an interview with Graham Bensinger. “I’d knock him out.”

Since his lone defeat, Alvarez has gone on to win world titles at 160, 168 and 175 kilos. As for Mayweather, his profession would keep it up for one more 5 fights, profitable all of them in one-sided style, earlier than finally strolling away from the game. Shortly after his retirement, Mayweather was unsurprisingly inducted into the boxing Corridor of Fame.

Together with his profitable profession formally behind him, Mayweather can’t assist however chortle on the feedback of Alvarez. Though the Mexican star continues to level to his age when he took on Mayweather, the 2020 Corridor of Famer does the very same.

“When Canelo fought me, he was in his prime. Once I fought, I used to be an outdated man. I wasn’t in my prime after I fought Canelo, I used to be an outdated man.”

On the time of their showdown practically a decade in the past, Mayweather was significantly older at 36. However, he simply outboxed Alvarez on the evening. With Mayweather now set to return to the ring in an exhibition in opposition to YouTuber turned de-facto boxer, Logan Paul, on June sixth, he needs to place Alvarez within the rearview mirror and give attention to the duty at hand.

“I used to be an outdated man after I fought Canelo similar to this proper right here. Despite the fact that I’m outdated, I obtained quite a lot of expertise. I’m a go on the market and simply present him (Logan Paul) that that is the elite stage and that is one thing completely totally different.”