In May the two got into it at a prefight post conference between Canelo and Jaime Munguia. De La Hoya went off and then admitted “Yes, I’ve been to rehab several times,” he said. “Yes, there were some really low points in my life. And yes, there were times that work was not my priority based on my mental health, which I had neglected for so long. But that doesn’t change the fact that Golden Boy built Canelo over this period.”
Alvarez responded with an angry rant. “This idiot, this [guy] here to my left, try not to forget that I was already ‘Canelo’ when I came to the United States and that he only profited from my name.