The mexican boxer Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez will start the year with activity in golf, his favorite pastime, by participating with other celebrities at the 2022 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament.
Canelo Alvarez, four-division champion and current pound-for-pound king of boxing is one of 22 celebrities and the only currently registered boxer to participate in the annual golf tournament, which will take place from January 31 to February 6 en Pebble Beach, California.
“See you soon”, Álvarez wrote when sharing the publication in which your participation is confirmed at the golf tournament.
CELEBRITIES
The celebrity field will eventually fill with up to 156 entrants, matching the number of professional golfers at the PGA Tour-branded event.
Celebrities include Bret Baie, Mookie Bett, Don Cheadl, Kira K. Dixo, Josh Duhamel, Larry Fitzgeral, Colt Ford, Mia Ham, Huey Lewi, Michael Peña and Chris O’Donnell.
Each celebrity golfer will be paired with a pro, playing one round at each of three courses: Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill Golf Course and Monterey Peninsula Country Club. After the third round, the top 25 teams will advance to the final round of competition to be played at Pebble Beach Golf Links.
HOBBY
Canelo Álvarez played golf during the pandemic and it quickly became his favorite pastime. During his undisputed super middleweight championship tour, Alvarez found time to participate in two celebrity tournaments and even took top honors at the 2021 BMW Charity Pro-Am tournament this past June in Greer, South Carolina.
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The feat came a month after he knocked out then-undefeated Billy Joe Saunders in the eighth round to add the WBO super middleweight belt to his WBC/WBO collection on May 8 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Texas.
Canelo Alvarez also participated in the American Century Championship tournament, tied for 35th out of a field of 88 celebrities last July at Edgewood Tahoe South in Stateline, Nevada.
Álvarez resumed his boxing career shortly after. His final victory of his 2021 Boxer of the Year campaign was for the undisputed super middleweight championship, which he claimed in an eleventh-round knockout of undefeated IBF champion Caleb Plant last November at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Vegas.
WHAT’S COMING
Alvarez’s next AT&T Pro-Am tournament location is a technical stop for his planned first fight of 2022, which is scheduled for May 7 in Las Vegas.
Eddy Reynoso, Alvarez’s manager and head trainer, received approval from the WBC for Canelo to pursue a direct shot at the WBC cruiserweight title, and such a victory would make Alvarez the first five-division champion to come out of Mexico.
Ilunga ‘Junior’ Makabu is the reigning champion, due to next defend in a rematch with mandatory challenger Thabiso Mchunu on January 29 at Packard Music Hall in Warren, Ohio.
However, there is much more speculation that Alvarez, whose victory over Plant topped a successful Pay-Per-View event, will remain at super middleweight and with Premier Boxing Champions. That path would lead to the first defense of his undisputed championship against undefeated two-division champion Jermall Charlo, who would move up from middleweight where he currently holds the WBC middleweight title.
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