r/Boxing • u/kushmonATL Inoue and Crawford up next in Sept 🔥💪🏾 • 22h ago

Saul Canelo Alvarez vs Matthew Hatton ┃ Canelo's very first title fight WBC SWW

https://youtu.be/_82HxrPiSFU?si=PPNGVTUQweiJmZIf

As we count down the days to Canelo vs Crawford, let's take a look back at some of the historic moments in both fighters careers

Here we have Canelo's very first title match, against the admirable and game Matthew Hatton , one of U.K.'s Finest from that era !!! This is for the WBC Super Welterweight championship

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u/OldBoyChance 22h ago

It was always surprising to me that Oscar didn't manage to get Canelo a fight at 147 before he outgrew the weight. Then again, Oscar has shown that he is absolutely terrible at getting his guys title fights, since he has never gotten a real title fight for Vergil Ortiz and was unable to mint Ryan Garcia as a champion.

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u/newrap 22h ago

Canelo was supposed to face Senchenko for the WBA welterweight title. That was what Canelo and his team wanted but when they couldn’t agree to terms with Senchenko they decided to fight Hatton at a catchweight for the vacant WBC light middleweight title instead.

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u/OldBoyChance 22h ago

Makes sense, though it's a bit surprising that they couldn't get negotiations over the line with Senchenko of all people.

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u/InviteTop8946 21h ago

Dude foresaw the future Canelo paydays and wanted in early 

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u/Elonmuskishuman 20h ago

This fight was the making of Canelo

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u/Baseball-man2025 19h ago

It’s crazy how red his hair used to be