Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez has put away 39 opponents inside the distance in his 66 professional fights. The Mexican superstar's power has carried him from super-welterweight all the way up to light-heavyweight.
Canelo got his first world title down at super-welterweight. He then became undisputed at super-middleweight by beating Caleb Plant in 2021. He even knocked out Sergey Kovalev up at light-heavy.
Right now, Canelo holds the unified super-middleweight world titles. He just outpointed Edgar Berlanga and might face William Scull next to try and become a two-time undisputed champ in the division.
But when Canelo thinks back on his most devastating knockout, he goes back to 2016. It was a WBC Middleweight World Title fight against Amir Khan at a 155-pound catchweight in the T Mobile Arena, Las Vegas.
Khan's speed served him well in the opening rounds. But in the sixth, Canelo dazed him and then landed a huge overhand right. Khan dropped hard and the ref didn't even count. Everyone was worried about Khan's health right away.
"I actually went over to see if he was ok. It was the natural reaction – the knockout was too strong. And on top of that, when he fell to the canvas he twisted his neck badly. So I thought something more than a knockout had happened."
Canelo feared for Khan when he hit the canvas. Khan later called it a "monster punch." After that fight, Khan went back down to welterweight. He won 3 out of 5 fights before losing his last one to Kell Brook.
The fight was a big hit, selling close to 600,000 pay-per-view buys.
Canelo hasn't stopped anyone since beating Plant in 2021. But few who've felt his power deny it. He recently looked back on his best knockouts in a feature for DAZN.
