What is Canelo Álvarez' Record?

Canelo Álvarez Record

17 years and 11 months into his professional boxing career, Canelo Álvarez has fought 64 times with 60 wins, 2 losses, and 2 draws. As of October 2023, Canelo's boxing record stands at 60-2-2 (39 KO wins).

Following is a tabular list of Canelo's fights. For a list with more details — like opponent record, opponent stats, including videos, and his next fight — refer to "All of Canelo Álvarez' fights".

World Titles

Canelo is a four-weight-division world champion. He has held 17 world titles, five of which were vacant title wins, and the rest 12 were lineal championship wins.

Career Summary

Canelo Álvarez made his professional boxing debut against Abraham Gonzalez at the age of 15 on October 29, 2005, defeating Gonzalez via 4th round TKO. He went on to win 3 more consecutive fights after the debut, which included 2 wins via stoppage.

Canelo had his first world title fight at the age of 20 on March 5, 2011 after 36 professional fights, against Matthew Hatton for the super-welterweight WBC (vacant) title. He defeated Hatton via 12 round unanimous decision to become the super-welterweight champion of the world.

He is a one-time undisputed super-middleweight world champion, and a five-time unified world champion — at super-middleweight (2x), middleweight (2x), and super-welterweight, and has won 17 world titles at four weight classes. For all the details about Canelo's world title wins and defenses refer to "Canelo Álvarez World Titles".

Some of Canelo's best fights and notable victories include wins over two Hall-of-Famers (Miguel Cotto and Shane Mosley), Gennady Golovkin, Jermell Charlo, Sergey Kovalev, Daniel Jacobs, Rocky Fielding, and Callum Smith.

Canelo has had a total of two losses in his professional boxing career so far.

His most recent fight was a super-middleweight undisputed championship title defense against American boxer Jermell Charlo on September 30, 2023. Canelo won the fight via 12 round unanimous decision, and successfully defended his undisputed title. It's been 3 days since this fight.

Career Highlights

Canelo has fought a total of 64 times till today, which includes 24 world-title fights at four weight divisions — super-middleweight, light-heavyweight, middleweight, and super-welterweight. He is among the very best of his generation and is one of the pound-for-pound best boxers of all time. These 13 fights are the highlight of his career.

• March 5, 2011: Canelo wins his first world title by defeating Matthew Hatton via 12 round unanimous decision. He is now the WBC super-welterweight world champion.

• April 20, 2013: Canelo becomes a unified super-welterweight world champion by beating Austin Trout via 12 round unanimous decision. He now holds the WBC, WBA (Unified), and The Ring super-welterweight world-champion belts.

• November 21, 2015: Canelo wins the WBC and The Ring middleweight titles from Miguel Cotto, by beating Cotto via 12 round unanimous decision.

• September 17, 2016: Canelo wins the WBO super-welterweight title from Liam Smith, by beating Smith via 9th round KO.

• September 15, 2018: Canelo becomes a unified middleweight world champion by beating Gennady Golovkin via 12 round majority decision. He now holds the WBA (Super), WBC, and The Ring middleweight world-champion belts.

• December 15, 2018: Canelo wins the WBA (Regular) super-middleweight title from Rocky Fielding, by beating Fielding via 3rd round TKO.

• May 4, 2019: Canelo becomes a unified middleweight world champion by beating Daniel Jacobs via 12 round unanimous decision. He now holds the WBA (Super), WBC, The Ring, and IBF middleweight world-champion belts.

• November 2, 2019: Canelo wins the WBO light-heavyweight title from Sergey Kovalev, by beating Kovalev via 11th round KO.

• December 19, 2020: Canelo becomes a unified super-middleweight world champion by beating Callum Smith via 12 round unanimous decision. He now holds the WBA (Super), WBC , and The Ring super-middleweight world-champion belts.

• May 8, 2021: Canelo becomes a unified super-middleweight world champion by beating Billy Joe Saunders via 8th round RTD. He now holds the WBA (Super), WBC, The Ring, and WBO super-middleweight world-champion belts.

• November 6, 2021: Canelo becomes the undisputed super-middleweight world champion by defeating Caleb Plant via 11th round TKO. He now holds the WBA (Super), WBC, WBO, The Ring, and IBF super-middleweight world-champion belts.

• September 17, 2022: Canelo successfully defends the WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring super-middleweight titles against Gennady Golovkin, winning the fight via 12 round unanimous decision.

• September 30, 2023: Canelo successfully defends the WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring super-middleweight titles against Jermell Charlo, winning the fight via 12 round unanimous decision.