Canelo Alvarez: Why Boxing’s Biggest Star is Finally Returning Home

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🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Canelo Alvarez’s fight against John Ryder this weekend might be the biggest fight of his career, but it could be the most meaningful. For the first time in 12 years, the face of boxing gets to fight in his hometown of Guadalajara, Mexico in front of all of his family and friends. The fight is set to take place at Akron Stadium in Jalisco, and up to 50,000 people are expected to fill the seats to watch their hometown hero defend his undisputed super middleweight title. So today, Mike Coppinger joins the show to tell us about his experience traveling to Guadalajara with Canelo, and why it is so special for him to fight in his hometown once again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.7	The top three, not surprisingly, we're all soccer players.
0:42.4	Cristiano Ronaldo, little Messi and killing him by pay number four NBA superstar, the
0:47.1	Brian James.
0:48.1	But number five was a guy that you recently traveled to meet up with for ESPN.com.
0:52.6	What can you tell me about him?
0:54.4	Canola Elver is by far the not just the biggest star in boxing, but for a long time,
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1:03.1	This is a guy that makes you know, 335 and 50 million of fights usually.
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