There are not too many people who have presented Saul ‘Canelo‘ Alvarez with serious problems in the ring.
The Mexican pound-for-pound contender is the current and first-ever undisputed super-middleweight champion who has beaten the likes of Caleb Plant, Billy Joe Saunders, Sergey Kovalev, Amir Khan, Miguel Cotto and Shane Mosley amongst others.
He was also involved in a legendary trilogy with Gennady Golovkin which saw him win two and draw one of those fights against a man who had been on a record-breaking 19-fight run of defences of his middleweight belts until he met Canelo.
Only two fighters have beaten the 34-year-old in his 66 bouts to date, Floyd Mayweather back in 2013 and more recently light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol handed him a 12 rounds point loss back in 2022, a defeat Canelo has long since been keen to avenge.
Speaking to Lewis Howes, he was asked who he thought would be a tougher opponent out of the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and the YouTuber turned professional fighter Jake Paul. Alvarez said they would pose the same threat but joked together could be a ‘little complicated’.
“I think if you put them both together in the ring maybe, then it would be a little complicated. They are the same [challenge]”
He was then asked for his prediction for that fight.
“It’s hard to say, but it’s risky for Mike Tyson. He’s 57, 58, I don’t know, and boxing is no a joke. But I get why they do it, it’s a business.”
