Canelo Alvarez loses no.1 pound-for-pound spot after defeat to Bivol

Published May 13, 2022 02:02 PM By JM SIASAT

Undisputed world super middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez lost his grip on the no.1 pound-for-pound spot following his loss to WBA world light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol this past weekend at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, USA.

Alvarez, 31, moved up to the 175-pound division to challenge Bivol for a world title but ultimately fell short by way of unanimous decision. It was his first loss in almost 9 years as his record slipped to 57-2-2 with 39 knockouts while Bivol remained unbeaten and improved to 20-0 with 11 KOs.

Barely a week after the defeat, The RING demoted Alvarez to the no. 6 spot of the pound-for-pound rankings

while it elevated two-division champion and unified heavyweight world champion Olensandr Usyk to the top spot. Bivol, on the other hand, made it to top 8.

Reigning WBO world welterweight champion Terence Crawford, meanwhile, has been positioned as no. 2 while Japanese superstar and unified world bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue sits at number three.

The RING’s current top 10:
1. Oleksandr Usyk
2. Terence Crawford

3. Naoya Inoue
4. Errol Spence
5. Juan Francisco Estrada
6. Canelo Alvarez
7. Vasiliy Lomachencko
8. Dmitry Bivol
9. Josh Taylor
10. Roman Gonzalez

—JMB, GMA News

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