Canelo Alvarez entered the ring with his reputation as a fighter, and as a man, on the line.
After fighting for more than half of his first fight with Gennady Golovkin off of his back foot last September, and getting popped twice for clenbuterol in his system, Canelo needed to clear his name with the people that mattered most: the fans of Mexico.
In fighting Gennady Golovkin, the 36-year-old man of iron from Kazakhstan, Alvarez faced the most dominant middleweight of the past half-decade. Golovkin, who is tied with all-time great Bernard Hopkins for the most title defenses of the world middleweight championship in boxing history at 20, entered the fight as a slight favorite.