![]() " El seis de noviembre, no se pierdan la pelea.," Reynoso says, staring into the camera before it sounds like his mouth stopped working. He passively listens as Reynoso, about 20 feet away, struggles to cut a promo for a Spanish language television station that just interviewed him. In fact, with closed vertical blinds, black poster boards taped on the dark tinted windows, and a door that's locked as soon as Álvarez enters, they don't want you to know. It's a small gym in an industrial warehouse area, which, from the outside, doesn't have a single sign that the world's best boxer trains there. He's sitting on the ring apron in their boxing gym in San Diego. They are fighting for Álvarez to ascend as the greatest Mexican boxer that ever lived. The Plant fight and beyond isn't about a payday or win for the boxer and trainer team. Álvarez and Reynoso have gotten to the point where they are reaching for history - to become an undisputed champion, and with that, to do what no one else from Mexico has done before. Not Caleb Plant, who they fight on Saturday for four-belt unification. (Showtime PPV, 9 p.m. Álvarez, sitting atop of his shoulders, sitting atop of the world, pounded his chest and flexed his muscles.Īt that moment, just like they recognize it now, Reynoso and Álvarez know that no one in the world can beat them. Not far from a waving Mexican flag and a disfigured Saunders, who minutes later would sit inside a lonesome ambulance with a pulsing pain from a right orbital bone broken in three separate places, Reynoso screamed with excitement. That's why once the fight ended after the 8th round, Reynoso carried Álvarez around the ring on his shoulders in victory. Instead of fighting, he'd rather go home. To put it as plainly as possible, Álvarez put a beating on Saunders that made him, or his corner, or all of them, say he didn't want anymore. I knew once the round was over, he wasn't going to fight anymore. "That's why I started urging the crowd to get loud. "I saw this other part raised," Álvarez continues, pointing beside his eye by his temple. He explains how he broke Saunders - with the casualness of someone talking about the weather. "I saw all this caved in," Álvarez says, pointing at his cheekbone, slowly dragging his finger under his right eye. When you punch people for a living, you can feel and hear when your fists have cracked bones. "I felt it when I hit him," Álvarez says now, in Spanish, of the right uppercut that damaged Saunders. For good measure, he broke the right side of Saunders's face. Once the fight started, and the crowd yelled so loud it made your ears ring and your chest pound, Álvarez handled him with relative ease. "You've never been in the ring with someone like me," Saunders warned Canelo before the fight. ![]() His personality often crosses the line between confidence and arrogance, someone who relished fighting in a stadium with enough people to rival the population of a mid-sized Texas town, of which only about a dozen wanted to see him win. But, perhaps most importantly, Saunders is a natural antagonist. He was an undefeated world champion, a slick southpaw from England who'd frustrated opponents confident they could hurt him. It wasn't illogical to think Saunders would be Álvarez's most formidable opponent in years. ![]() Just seconds before, inside AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, with 73,126 people in attendance, Billy Joe Saunders, or his corner - whichever version of the story you believe - said they'd had enough. And the two, Reynoso as trainer, Álvarez as his boxer, are celebrating another win surrounded by the largest indoor crowd to ever watch a boxing match in the United States. It's Cinco de Mayo weekend, one of the most important days in boxing. You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browserĬanelo Álvarez and the mystical man behind his quest for immortalityĮDDY REYNOSO IS carrying Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez on his shoulders.
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