“Heavyweight? Probably not, although a year ago I probably would have said the same about the first heavyweight, and now, please, we are talking about the fight with Makabu. But it seems to me that I would not have coped with my body in the heavyweight division, "- said Saul Alvarez (57-1-2, 39 KOs) on whether he can try his hand at the heavyweights in the future.
Alvarez sometimes works in pairs with heavyweights, including Frank Sanchez (19-0, 13 KOs), who also said his opinion on this matter. “He really hits like a heavyweight,” the undefeated Cuban (WBC # 5) praised Canelo.
"Why not? After all, Usyk is not such a big heavyweight,” the promoter Eddie Hearn, who is currently working with Canelo, shared his opinion.
“Canelo and his coach Eddie Reinoso just love challenges. He can easily transition to the heavyweight division to take on smaller “heavyweights” such as Alexander Usyk or Trevor Brian. Will he be able to successfully compete with them? Let him first prove himself in the cruiser category,” Hearn said.
Canelo was the world champion in the junior middleweight, middleweight and light heavyweight divisions, and two and a half weeks ago combined all four belts in the super middleweight division. There is now talk of his May fight with the WBC cruiserweight champion Ilunga Makabu (28-2, 25 KOs).
