Boxing: ‘Canelo’ Alvarez Ready to Make Next Step to Stardom

That chance has come again. He knows what he did the first time it was there. He might not have been ready, though he thought he was, and now it haunts him.

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will always be shadowed by the first loss of his career. Every superstar fighter is. They can never shake it. Neither could Alvarez after his loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. Alvarez knew he was better than how he looked that September night in 2013. He knew he could have moved better, moved faster, punched harder, somehow managed to bully the slippery Mayweather, corner and then punish him.

Now the Mexican luminary finds himself at boxing’s epicenter once more on Saturday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas,…