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“NO Boxing No Life” is the slogan of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and his formidable team and there is no doubting that he and they approach their brutal craft in like manner.
That rare breed of champion who the higher he climbs the hungrier he becomes, this weekend at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas Alvarez collides with fellow undefeated super middleweight world champion, Caleb Plant, for the right to be crowned undisputed and make history as the first undisputed middleweight champion there has ever been.
So active is Alvarez in this his prime that it seems only a few weeks back that he was climbing into a boxing ring in Texas to face Billy Joe Saunders. As it happens it was back in May, when he forced Saunders to retire on his stool with a broken eye socket after the eighth round.
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