Boxing celebrity Canelo Alvarez mentioned he needed to negotiate by phone the discharge of one in all his brothers, who had been kidnapped in Mexico, within the days earlier than his 2018 struggle in opposition to Rocky Fielding in New York.
“In 2018, the Monday earlier than the struggle, and I used to be all the time on the cellphone. … I negotiated all the pieces for his launch,” Alvarez mentioned throughout an interview on “In Depth with Graham Bensinger” that can air this weekend. “For 3 days I negotiated with [the kidnappers] to get them to launch him.
“After I negotiated his launch, I used to be nonetheless considering, think about if it was my daughter, or my mother or my dad, it will have been much more troublesome for me. And on prime of that, I had the struggle on Saturday, and I needed to do a thousand interviews [for the fight]. And no person knew about it. I’d inform my cousin, say this [to the kidnappers], and my cousin would inform me, [the kidnappers] despatched this, and I’d say, inform them this.”
Alvarez mentioned he didn’t need to notify the Mexican authorities as a result of he believed some members of the police might need been concerned within the scenario.
He mentioned he wasn’t involved about his brother not coming residence, however he referred to as it one of the vital troublesome moments of his life, as a result of [his brother] “is all the pieces for me.”
Alvarez mentioned he wish to have his household transfer out of Mexico however added that it is troublesome as a result of “they’ve their life right here in Mexico; I can not do it.”
The drama did not seem to have an effect on Alvarez within the ring as he knocked Fielding down 4 instances earlier than ending him by way of third-round KO.
Alvarez (55-1-2, 37 KOs) will proceed his pursuit to unify the tremendous middleweight division Could eight vs. Billy Joe Saunders (30-Zero, 14 KOs) at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.