A success timeline featuring the most significant achievements of Canelo Álvarez.
Saúl 'Canelo' Álvarez is a highly accomplished Mexican professional boxer. He has achieved world championships across four weight divisions, ranging from light middleweight to light heavyweight, and has unified titles in three. Notably, in 2021, he made history as the first undisputed super middleweight champion and then became a two-time undisputed super middleweight champion in May 2025. He has also held The Ring magazine's super middleweight title since 2020.
In 2004, Álvarez won the silver medal at the Junior Mexican National Championships held in Sinaloa.
In 2005, Álvarez became the Junior Mexican National Boxing Champion in Tuxtla Gutiérrez at the age of 15.
On 20 January 2006, Álvarez secured a win over future IBF lightweight champion Miguel Vázquez in his hometown of Guadalajara, Jalisco.
On 6 March 2010, Álvarez achieved a crushing third-round KO over Brian Camechis in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas.
On 5 March 2011, Álvarez defeated Matthew Hatton via unanimous decision for the vacant WBC light middleweight belt in a bout televised on HBO from the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.
On 18 June 2011, Álvarez successfully defended his WBC title against Ryan Rhodes via TKO in the twelfth round in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
On 17 September 2011, Álvarez successfully defended his WBC title against Alfonso Gómez at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, winning via TKO in the sixth round.
In 2011, at the age of 20, Álvarez became the youngest boxer to claim the World Boxing Council (WBC) light middleweight title.
In 2013, Álvarez beat Austin Trout to win the World Boxing Association (WBA) (Unified version) and Ring titles.
On November 21, 2015, Canelo Álvarez won the WBC and Ring middleweight titles with a unanimous decision victory over Miguel Cotto at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The fight took place at a catchweight of 155 lbs at Cotto's request. Two months later, the WBC awarded Álvarez the WBC Diamond middleweight title.
On May 7, 2016, Canelo Álvarez fought British boxer Amir Khan at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, for Álvarez's WBC and Ring middleweight titles. Álvarez won by a knockout in the sixth round. The fight generated a live gate of $7,417,350 from 13,072 tickets sold, and drew close to 600,000 PPV buys.
In 2016, Álvarez defeated Miguel Cotto to win the WBC and Ring middleweight titles, and he also returned to light middleweight to beat Liam Smith for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) title.
In 2018, Álvarez beat Gennady Golovkin in a rematch, becoming the WBA (Super version), WBC, and Ring middleweight champion.
From November 7, 2019, Álvarez was ranked by The Ring as the world's best boxer, pound for pound.
For his 2019 campaign, Álvarez was named fighter of the year by The Ring Magazine, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and the Boxing Writers Association of America.
In 2019, Álvarez beat Rocky Fielding for the WBA super middleweight title (Regular version) and won the International Boxing Federation (IBF) middleweight title from Daniel Jacobs. Later in 2019, Álvarez made his light heavyweight debut and knocked out Sergey Kovalev to claim the WBO title.
In December 2020, Álvarez faced Callum Smith and won by unanimous decision, becoming a four-division world champion.
In 2020, Canelo Álvarez has also held the Ring magazine super middleweight title.
In 2021, Álvarez became the first and only boxer in history to become the undisputed super middleweight champion.
Álvarez made Forbes' list of the world's highest-paid athletes in 2023, also becoming the top-earning boxer with a reported $110 million.
On September 14, 2024, Canelo Álvarez defended his WBA, WBC and WBO super middleweight titles against Edgar Berlanga at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, winning by unanimous decision.
In May 2025, Álvarez became a two-time undisputed super middleweight champion.
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