Alvarez: "I'm the best in the world"

On November 6, WBA, WBC and WBO super middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (56-1-2, 38 KOs) will face IBF champion Caleb Plant (21-0, 12 KOs) in a unification bout. The Mexican spoke on Brian Custer's podcast today about the upcoming bout and touched on a few other topics.

"The bout against Plant is extremely important for my legacy. I will be the first outright champion from Mexico. Will I then become the greatest Mexican boxer ever? I don't know, I don't want to compare my story to other boxers' stories. I want to build my own story," Alvarez stated.

"When Plant called me a son of a bitch, in my opinion, he crossed a certain line. To us Mexicans, words like that mean a lot. That's why I shoved Plant when we posed face-to-face the other day and then a fight broke out. Now I can hear Andre Ward working with Plant and saying he can beat me. I don't care because it will just be me and Plant in the ring. I have more experience and skill and I'll show it in the fight. I'll break Plant's jaw like I promised. My fights with Mayweather and Lara are old times, I'm a different fighter now. More mature, stronger, better. I know how to break opponents like Plant. After five rounds, I'll take over everything that happens in the ring. Billy Joe Saunders has failed, so it will be easier for me to fight Plant than Saunders. We'll see," added Canelo.

"I want to fight the way the fans want to fight and create history. I like to fight regularly, next year I want to do at least three fights. On Saturday I watched the third fight between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder. Great, great fight. Wilder needs better form and better footwork, he needs to move better in the ring. He also doesn't know how to move his head. Because of these shortcomings, he lost to Fury, who is a great fighter. Fights with Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beterbiev? Why not, I'm open to those duels. Gennady Golovkin? Great boxer. The best boxer in the world today? That's me," one of the leaders of modern boxing summed up the topic.