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JEFF POWELL POWELL IN LAS VEGAS: Saul Canelo Alvarez has four children, including his younger sister Fernanda, a Mexican-owned ranch, a fleet of the world's best-selling cars, mansions, a helicopter, and a super-yacht, but only love Alina, one of the country's largest cities, until he has stopped knocking people out of work or businesses. Canelo includes world leaders and Hollywood celebrities among his golfing partners and horses in his extensive breeds. Since picking him up from school, Triple G enthuses about playing games with his teenage son. The two men who arrived in this sparkling mirage of a city in the Nevada desert at the start of big combat week could not have been more different.

No fighter is unbeatable. Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (inset left) appeared to be on par with it going into 2022. The popular Mexican had gone 16 fights unbeaten after being outclassed by Floyd Mayweather back in 2013. He had just put together a string of victories that had seen him overthrowrown Sergey Kovalev up to become a four-weight world champion before falling back to 12 stone and defeating Callum Smith, Billy Joe Saunders, and Caleb Plant in the space of 11 months to clear out the super-middleweight division. He seemed to be at the height of his powers at 31, and virtually unstoppable. In May, it all went wrong against Dmitry Bivol (pictured).