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Some of the best boxers across all weight classes in the sweet science, including Canelo Alvarez, Terence Crawford and more.
When you talk top pound for pound, it's the boxers who are
so great that they transcend their division, as their eminence resonates through the sweet science overall. With Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, arguably the top boxer in the game, fighting Saturday night against mandatory challenger Avni Yildirim, it's the perfect time for DAZN News to take a closer look at a half dozen of the pound-for-pound best in the sport today.
Canelo Alvarez
How do you mention top pound-for-pound fighters without Canelo's name being the first to roll off the tongue? A four-division world champion, the 30-year-old boxing sensation's last three fights have come at three different weight classes and resulted in three victories with three different world title wins. There was the December drubbing of Callum Smith in December, when he walked down and dominated the bigger man to become the reigning unified super middleweight world champion. Prior to that, Alvarez launched a scintillating left hook-right hook combination to drop Sergey Kovalev with a thud and take his WBO light heavyweight title in November 2019. In May of the same year, Canelo (54-1-2, 36 KOs) used precision punching and elusive defense to execute a sound unanimous decision over Daniel Jacobs, as he once again became a unified world middleweight champion at his wheelhouse weight of 160 pounds. If that's not the best sample size of what it means to be a true top pound-for-pound boxer, what is? Canelo keeps redefining his greatness.