Affected by the pandemic in the global sports world, Saul Avarez played three times in 2021 to make up for the loss caused by the longest suspension of his career. And he completed the unification of the 168-pound super midweight with three KO games, becoming the sixth super boxer to complete a quad title since the WBO's inception in 1988 (the previous five were Hopkins, Jemin Taylor, Crawford, Usik, Josh Taylor).
Today's boxing brother is indeed worthy of the name
It is also because of such brilliant results that he has no suspense to become the 2021 best boxer selected by the "Boxing Live Network", after "Boxing Ring" magazine and ESPN have named Avarez the best boxer of the year.
Because of the characteristics of boxing, boxers who have reached the championship level, especially super boxers, can only play one or two games a year. But in 2021, which is plagued by the epidemic, Avarez, who is at the top of the P4P list, has made three consecutive appearances. On February 27, 2021, he easily defeated Avani Yerjedirim (21-2) defending the WBC/WBA Superweight Gold Belt with just three legs.
In every game, the opponent can only look back
On May 8 he played a treble with WBO champion Billy Joe Sanders (30-0), and in the eighth round Avarez broke Sanders' cheekbone with a precise and ferocious hook punch, forcing the undefeated British two-tier boxer to concede defeat after the eighth round.
On 6 November, Avarez and IBF champion Caleb Plantt engaged in a world-renowned super-midweight quadruple showdown, and although the technically skilled and oily Plante grabbed three of the first 10 rounds, Avarez seized on Plante's momentary negligence and knocked down his opponent twice in a row to win the match in the 11th round.
Nor was Brother Plant able to organize Ava's great cause of unification
Becoming the quadruple winner of the 168-pound SuperWeight allowed Avalez not only to fully unify the class for the first time ever, but also to complete the united battle in the third weight class. Before him, whether it was Mayweather, Joa or Holyfield, they had only won the United Front at most two levels, and Avarez's strength was evident.
The award is the second time Avarez has won the Boxer of the Year award, and since the new century, only three superstars have won the Title of Boxer of the Year more than twice, the first two being Mayweather and Pacquiao.
In 2021, Ava proved everything with strength
In an interview with Boxing Live.net, Avarez said: "I am grateful to Boxing Live.com for the honor it has given me, Boxer of the Year is a great recognition and I have an incredibly good team that has taken me to this point, including Coach of the Year Eddie Renoso. ”
Perhaps it's the good team that keeps the 31-year-old Avarez in excellent competitive form and a tight schedule. Because of the epidemic in the United States in early 2020, Avarez did not play for 13 months. Immediately after resuming matches, the Mexican superstar arranged an intensive schedule, from his defeat of Callum Smith in December 2020 to his victory over Plante in November 2021, which equated him to playing four championship matches in 12 months, with a minimum interval of only two months and eight days.
This is the new Mexican wonder
Even more frightening, after beating Sanders in May, he had hoped to take on Plante in September, so that he would have time to schedule another match in the December Christmas slot. Unfortunately, the toughness of the Plant camp delayed the negotiations some time, and he knew that Avarez coveted the last IBF gold belt in his hands, so he did not give in to the negotiating table. The two sides had to abandon the Mexican National Day slot in September and reschedule the November match.
However, in the end, Plant only gained better economic benefits, unable to stop Avarez's sweep of the super middleweights, and Plant, who won 21 games, became the sixth undefeated boxer to bow to Avarez in the championship game. So far, Avirez has faced opponents who have previously maintained an unbeaten record in 8 of their 19 championship games, with only Golovkin drawing with him and only Mayweather letting him taste defeat.
"Stone Fist" Duran even believes that Ava has surpassed his predecessor Chaviz
Like his predecessors Mayweather and Pacquiao, his outstanding record has given him a strong box office appeal. He's the only superstar since Mayweather to earn millions of PPV in three consecutive games and has been awarded a super contract from DAZN: five years, 11 games, $365 million!
In the past, boxing fans talked about the achievements of Avirez and Golovkin, but now look, maybe we will argue about the achievements of Avarez and Pacquiao and even Mayweather in the future!
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