- Born
- Birth nameSantos Saúl Álvarez Barragán
- Nickname
- Canelo
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán, popularly known as Canelo Álvarez or Saúl Álvarez, is a Mexican professional boxer. He has won multiple world championships in four weight classes from light middleweight to light heavyweight, including unified titles in three of those weight classes and lineal titles in two. Álvarez is the first and only boxer in history to become undisputed champion at super middleweight, having held the WBA (Super), WBC and Ring magazine titles since 2020, and the IBF and WBO titles since 2021.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- Usually billed solely by his nickname, (e.g. Canelo v Trout; Mayweather v Canelo)
- Boxing at a catchweight or having re-hydration clauses in his contracts.
- His fight with Floyd Mayweather sold 2.2 million pay-per-view units that generated more than $71 million in revenue.
- Given the nickname "Canelo" (Spanish for cinnamon) because of his red hair.
- 2010 ESPN Prospect of the Year.
- The Ring magazine Fight of the Year for 2018.
- The Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year for 2019.
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