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Canelo Alvarez looked ‘30-40lbs’ heavier and fought like ‘Ivan Drago’, claims Amir Khan

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Amir Khan offered a terrifying insight into what it’s like to step into the ring with Canelo Alvarez.The former World Champion was knocked out in the sixth round against the iconic Mexican fighter during a fierce Las Vegas bout in 2016.

Alvarez retained his WBC middleweight titles with one spectacular punch in the sixth round that completely floored the Olympic Silver medalist.Despite the result, Khan earned an awful lot of respect as he had to put on a sizeable amount of weight to even reach Alvarez’s bracket.

And Khan admitted the sheer size of the challenge facing him hit home when he was up close with Alvarez’s physique.Read More: Amir Khan slams Anthony Joshua’s team for not ‘taking the mic away’ to stop Usyk rant “Most difficult fighter, you would probably agree with me on this one, was Canelo,” Khan told Gary Neville on ‘The Overlap’ when asked who his hardest opponent was. “I went up two, maybe three weight categories just to fight him.“I remember walking in the ring [and] I stepped in the ring with him and it was like I was facing two of you, he was like that big.

I thought ‘he didn’t look that big in the weigh-in’.“I mean, how can he put on that much weight on [it was like] he put on about 30-40 pounds on in a day. [I just thought] how could he do that, you know.Do you think Amir Khan's boxing career has been underrated?

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