Canelo Alvarez believes former rival Floyd Mayweather Jr should have lost at least one of his 50 professional fights.
The Mexican superstar locked horns with Mayweather back in 2013 in a defence of his WBC middleweight title at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
The experience and technical brilliance of ‘Money’ proved to be too much on the night as he defeated Canelo via majority decision to unify the WBC and WBA titles at 154lbs, although the scorecards did not do Mayweather’s performance justice with many fans and pundits expressing their disbelief over the result. Canelo later went on the describe Mayweather as a “complete fighter”.
Despite Mayweather’s dominance and outstanding career achievements, Canelo believes the 47-year-old from Grand Rapids should have lost in a showdown against a retired six weight world champion.
In a resurfaced YouTube clip, the Mexican superstar admitted he believes Oscar De La Hoya should have been declared the winner when he fought ‘Money’ Mayweather back in May 2007.
“I think Oscar De La Hoya won.”
Mayweather and ‘The Golden Boy’ faced eachother in a bout that was billed ‘The World Awaits’ on May 5 2007, with De La Hoya putting his WBC light middleweight at stake in one of the biggest fights of that generation.
After a very competitive 12-round battle, ‘Money’ was declared the winner via split decision with two out of three judges scoring it in favour of Mayweather.
It was reported that they had been in negotiations for a rematch which was due to take place in September 2008 although this did not come to fruition after Mayweather’s decision to walk away from the sport, although he would eventually return to the ring in 2009.
