The Mexican Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez has currently become one of the best boxers on the planet by reaping an important record of victories that have allowed him to reach various champion belts; this fact has also helped him to join a long list of important names of Aztec boxers throughout history.
Despite this fact, the boxer from Guadalajara has suffered some strong blows in his career, such as the one that occurred in 2013 when he faced the American Floyd Mayweather Jr. In that fight, Canelo Álvarez was widely outmatched in each one. rounds to record his first loss as a professional boxer.
Recently, Canelo Álvarez’s trainer, Chepo Reynoso, spoke about that difficult night in his protégé’s career in the city of Las Vegas, especially when they took all the people out of the dressing room and the boxer began to cry for the defeat.
“After the Floyd Mayweather fight there were people in the dressing room, family and everything, and we told them to please get out. Only my son (Eddy), Canelo and I stayed, just the three of us, who are the team,” Reynoso said in an interview for the Spanish Boxing Association.
“And we moved away, we hugged and you can say that we even cried, but apart from that it was not a thing from another world, we lost to a genius like Mayweather, and apart from that, in relief of conscience, we lost, we didn’t We beat him, but no one has beaten him. So he was not shameful, on the contrary; we said ‘let’s go ahead, and there we are,’ he added.
To conclude, the coach maintained that in addition to Canelo, the entire team “was left with the thorn” of the defeat and with the desire to be able to dispute a rematch, because shortly after that Mayweather announced his retirement.
“What happens is that we were sad because of the great commitment, because the truth is, all of Mexico was waiting for the fight, all of Mexico wanted Canelo to win and when you can’t give your people that satisfaction, it makes you feel sad, but also he was a 23 year old boy. We said move on. Out there, many voices said that the corner failed, that the corner had to be changed, but if that’s what they mean, then they have to run to all those who have fought with Mayweather, because they have all lost, ”he sentenced.
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