With his legacy on the line, Canelo Alvarez battles the ghosts of Mexico's boxing tradition
THIS PAST MAY 6th, one day before Saúl «Canelo» Álvarez lost, it would have been difficult to find someone in Las Vegas who thought that would happen. On that day, standing among the thousands who'd traveled from all over the country and farther, gathering outside at the Toshiba Plaza just to watch him weigh in, you would have thought all of this was little more than a formality.


