Canelo Alvarez – The Mexican Masterchef
In all my years watching boxing, it’s rare that I’ve seen a fighter as awe-inspiring as Canelo Alvarez, writes Ian Probert
ALTHOUGH I’ve written a fair amount about boxing over the years I consider my ongoing fascination with this addictive business to be little more than a dilettante guilty pleasure. Even at the height of my professional involvement during the 1990s I was never one of those people who knew the name of every six-round fighter in the country. When access to that level of detail was required there was always someone out there willing to fill in the blanks. But even though the sport’s appetisers would rarely fail to serve up a tasty treat or two it was always the main course that unashamedly held my interest. So it remains to this day.