Canelo Alvarez Net Worth

Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán net worth is
$25 Million

Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán Wiki Biography

Canelo Álvarez was born on 18th July 1990, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, and is a professional boxer. He is the former light middleweight world champion of the WBC and WBA, the former middleweight world champion of the WBC, and the current light middleweight world champion of the WBO. He has been boxing professionally since 2005.

How much is the net worth of Canelo Alvarez? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $25 million, as of the data presented at the end of 2017. Boxing is the major source of Alvarez’s modest fortune.

Canelo Álvarez Net Worth $25 Million

To begin with, the boy started boxing at the age of 13 and had 20 amateur fights. His greatest success as an amateur was winning the 2005 Mexican Junior Championship.

Concerning his professional career, he started with a knockout victory against Abraham González in 2005, and as early as his third fight he defeated the later IBF World Champion Miguel Vázquez on points. His fifth fight resulted in his only ever draw, against Jorge Juárez from Tijuana. In the autumn of 2006, he defeated the WBC champion Francisco Villanueva, then in the spring of 2008, he secured himself the Fedecentro title of the WBA by winning in the 12th round against the previously undefeated Gabriel Martínez (17-0), and defended his title against former Latino champion WBO Carlos Jerez (27-9) and former Colombian champion Raul Pinzon (16-1). At the beginning of 2009, he won the North American championship title of the NABF, and the Latino title of the WBO winning against the previously unbeaten Euri Gonzalez (17-0). He defended his NABF title against Michel Rosales (23-2) and Jefferson Gonçalo (19-3), then in the summer of 2009, he became the new junior welterweight world champion of the WBC, defeating the Russian Marat Chuseew (18-4). Alvarez defended the title winning against the Argentinian Carlos Herrera (21-1). Also, he defended the NABF title against the eventual US champions Lanardo Tyner (21-2) and Brian Camechis (19-2). Moreover, the boxer defeated the former World Junior Champion of the WBC, and later two-time WBA World Champion challenger José Miguel Cotto (31-1).

In 2010 he won the silver title of the WBC against Luciano Leonel Cuello, and defended it against former WBC champion Carlos Baldomir (45-12), as well as against ex-IBF World Champion Lovemore N’dou (48-11). In 2011, Canelo won the world championship title against Matthew Hatton, then defended his title in a fight against Alfonso Gómez (23-4). Later, he defeated the former World Champion Kermit Cintrón (33-4, and the former WBA WBC and IBF World Champion Shane Mosley (46-7), plus Josesito López (30-4). In 2013, he fought Floyd Mayweather Jr., but lost both titles in this fight; regardless, he now had a well-established net worth.

In 2014, Álvarez defeated Alfredo Angulo (22-3), and Erislandy Lara (19-1) over twelve rounds on points, then in 2015, he won against James Kirkland (32-1) for the WBC middleweight title. In 2016, he defeated Amir Khan (31-3), but in the middle of 2016 resigned his WBC World Championship title. In 2016, he defeated Liam Smith (23-0) in the fight for the WBO light- middleweight title by knockout, then Julio César Chávez junior in 2017. Then, he boxed for the World Cup title of IBF and WBA middleweight against Gennady Golovkin (37-0), who also held the titles of IBO and WBC, and which ended in a draw. Overall, all the above mentioned fights have added huge sums to the total size of Canelo Alvarez net worth.

Finally, in the personal life of the boxer, he has one child, and is known to be engaged to the sports reporter Marisol Gonzalez. Currently, he is still officially single.



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