Boxing Pound-for-Pound Rankings: Canelo Alvarez holds on at No. 1 with another dominant victory

The unified super middleweight champion continues to shine and take on the biggest challenges available

Rightfully so, given the leverage he holds as the sport's biggest star and reigning pound-for-pound king, Canelo Alvarez has been lauded almost gratuitously over the past year for his commitment to still seek difficult challenges within multiple weight divisions.  But can we now turn the focus to something else, and essentially more important, just days removed from Alvarez's destruction of unbeaten super middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders in their unification fight? Alvarez, at age 30, is not only getting better with each big fight, he's doing so at a fairly alarming rate.  Alvarez (56-1-2, 38 KOs) turned pro at the tender age of 15 and was already headlining major pay-per-view events by the age of 23, which means it has been a long time since the Mexican superstar's face wasn't high up among the sport's biggest draws. Yet it would be hard for anyone to go back to those times and imagine Alvarez would actually become this good along the way as a complete fighter who has carried his power up to the higher divisions.