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      Boxing legend Tyson Fury took two women on a wild eight-hour booze bender after they asked him for a selfie

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      WORLD boxing champion Tyson Fury took two fans on an eight-hour booze bender — after the women asked the heavyweight for a selfie.Stella Kabelis, 21, and Kailah Downie, 24, knocked back shots and danced with Tyson at a bar.
      Stella Kabelis, 21, (left) and Kailah Downie, 24, knocked back shots and danced with Tyson at a bar
      Tyson went back to their Manchester flat
      A pal said: “The girls couldn’t believe their luck.”
      The 33-year-old fighter then went back to their Manchester flat while wife Paris was at home.
      A source said: “Stella and Kailah were really starstruck and enjoyed a taste of the high life with him. He was a perfect gentleman and they have been telling their friends what an amazing time they had. They think Tyson is great.
      “Stella and Kailah are normal hard-working girls who went out for a midweek drink and ended up doing shots and dancing with one of the world’s most famous sporting stars. They felt very lucky to be out with him and he was very complimentary to them and they loved his fun-loving personality.
      “He’s a beast of a boxer, but out of the ring he’s a gentle, fun-loving guy.”
      The dad of six, who has been partying hard since his epic world title win over Deontay Wilder last month, was out in Manchester on Wednesday afternoon while wife Paris was at home with their newborn baby.
      Stella and Kailah spotted him and coach Andy Lee in a swanky restaurant. They filmed him before posting on Snapchat: “Not Tyson Fury being sat right behind us.”
      Outside they approached the two-times world champ for a selfie and Tyson happily obliged.

      A picture posted on Stella’s Facebook page shows Tyson – wearing a navy blue blazer, jeans and a white shirt – smiling with his arms around both girls.
      It racked up over 150 likes after she captioned it: “Us and the Gypsy King.” Kailah later shared a selfie with the boxer on Instagram, posting: “Trust me to have no make-up on the day I meet Tyson Fury.”
      The group exchanged numbers before the girls headed to the city’s Hatch pop-up complex where they downed £8.50 Pornstar cocktails from the Miami Ice bar.
      But they were floored when they got a WhatsApp message from Tyson’s pal Andy asking them to join them for something to eat.
      Stella replied: “I’m just having a drink in a bar. I’m not looking my best right now to be joining for dinner as I’m in my comfies. I’m heading home but I can get ready.”
      Do you and your girlfriend want to come and meet me and Tyson?Andy LeeTyson’s coach
      Andy replied: “You look good to me.”
      He then asked: “Do you and your girlfriend want to come and meet me and Tyson?”
      The delighted girls were only too happy to have a round or two with the boxer, who has a personal fortune estimated at £40million.
      A photo posted on Stella’s Snapchat account later shows her cosying up to Tyson at a cocktail bar.
      He can be seen knocking back shots, while pretending to throw some of his famous jabs.
      Kailah then posted footage of the boxer busting some moves on the dancefloor alongside two laughing emojis, saying: “As if I’m on a night out with Tyson Fury.”
      As the night wore on, there was no sign of any imminent stoppages, and another picture on Stella’s Snapchat account showed Tyson standing in the street, captioned: “Back with the boy x.”
      The group then travelled to Stella and Kailah’s £1,000-a-month flat in Salford to continue partying.
      The boxer FaceTimed his reality TV star brother Tommy, with a pic showing Stella and Tyson holding up his phone, captioned: “On FaceTime to Tommy Fury.”
      ‘ON FACETIME TO TOMMY FURY’
      Tyson eventually called it a night at around 11.30pm — more than eight hours after he met the girls.
      Stella and Kailah are understood to work for Covid testing firm Randox. Stella has a criminal justice degree from the University of Plymouth and posts saucy snaps on her social media.
      Last night a pal said: “The girls couldn’t believe their luck. They love a night out but never expected to party with Tyson Fury.
      “They were off work on Wednesday so they went shopping before heading for drinks. But in the afternoon they saw Tyson with his pal and started chatting with him.
      “Stella swapped numbers with Andy and he messaged soon after inviting them out for dinner.
      “They had a few cocktails together and were asking Tyson about his boxing career and he really enjoyed being in the company of some down-to-earth girls.
      SAUCY SNAPS
      “He might be heavyweight champion, but he’s a man of the people and likes to live as normal a life as possible. They thought Tyson was very charming and he was very complimentary to them.
      “They had some drinks and did some shots. Tyson is really enjoying partying at the moment following his last fight. The four of them carried on the party at the apartment for another couple of hours until Tyson left at around 11.20pm.
      “The girls assume he left so that he could go home to his wife Paris and his children.”
      The day before, Tyson had a game of bingo in his home town of Morecambe with TV stars Andrew Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp.
      Tyson’s gruelling third fight against Wilder last month saw him get up from the canvas twice to win in the 11th round — cementing his place in heavyweight boxing folklore.
      He, Paris and their family then spent two days partying in Las Vegas, enjoying champagne and vodka-fulled binges.
      ‘GOOD FUN’
      Paris and Tyson met when they were teenagers and married in 2008.
      She gave birth to their sixth child Athena in August, and the pair previously told how they want 11 children.
      Stella remained tight-lipped when contacted by The Sun but acknowledged the night was “good fun”.
      She added: “I’m not willing to make any further comment.”
      Tyson’s spokeswoman was contacted for comment.
      Kailah’s jokey selfie with the heavyweight champ
      Dancer Tyson shows off his nifty footwork
      Tyson at bar downing shots with the girls
      The 33-year-old fighter then went back to the girls’ Manchester flat while wife Paris was at homeCredit: BackGrid
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      Canelo Alvarez vs Caleb Plant: UK start time, live stream, TV channel, undercard for super-middleweight fight THIS WEEK

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      CANELO ALAVREZ returns to the ring against Caleb Plant in a massive super-middleweight undisputed title fight THIS WEEKEND.Alvarez was last in action back in May, when he TKO’d Billy Joe Saunders in the 8th round of their title clash in Texas.
      Canelo Alvarez added the WBO title to his collection in MayCredit: Reuters
      Plant has had to wait a little longer for this fight, having not fought since January, when he outpointed Caleb Truax.
      The Nashville fighter won his first world title in 2019, beating Venezuelan Jose Uzcategui, and has since defended it three times.
      Alvarez is on a hot streak of wins following his draw with Gennady Golovkin back in 2017.
      He’s since beaten Golovkin, Rocky Fielding, Daniel Jacobs, Sergey Kovalev, Callum Smith, Avni Yildirim and Saunders, becoming a four-weight world champion in the process.
      Plant’s IBF title at 168lbs represents the final piece of Alvarez’s jigsaw, which could see the Mexican crowned as his country’s first ever undisputed champion.
      Alvarez and Plant had originally planned to clash back in September, but negotiations fell through before a solution was found weeks later.
      The fight will be held on Showtime pay-per-view in the U.S., which will be the first time Alvarez hasn’t fought on DAZN stateside since 2018.
      A win for either fighter would crown the second undisputed champion in 2021, after Josh Taylor picked up all the belts at 140lbs in his win over Jose Ramirez back in May.
      When is Canelo vs Plant?

      Canelo Alvarez’s big fight with Caleb Plant will take place on Saturday, November 6.
      The fight will emanate from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
      There should be close to 15,000 fans in attendance at the huge event.
      Canelo vs Plant will get underway in the early hours of Sunday, November 7 for fans in the UK, with ring-walks set for around 4am GMT.

      What channel is it and can it be live streamed?

      Alvarez’s clash with Plant will be shown live on BT Sport Box Office in the UK.
      You can live stream the action from the BT Sport Box Office app, which is available for download onto your mobile or tablet device.
      The event will set you back £19.95.

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      What has been said?
      Alvarez said: “You are not on my level and you will see on November 6. You don’t want to fight now, I promise you.
      “We come from nothing and we worked hard to be here. For somebody to lie and talk trash about us, that upset Eddy. It is what it is though. We just have to show everyone who we are on November 6.
      “Caleb might be on the same level as Saunders and Smith, but he’s not on my level. I respect that he isn’t here to back down. You can see from today that this is definitely going to be a good fight.”
      Plant said: “I know only one thing better than proving people right, and that’s proving people wrong. I’ve been doing that my whole life. As soon as I stepped on the stage, people started talking about what I can’t accomplish and what I can’t do.
      “Where I come from, there is no boxing community. There was no other pro I could look to and say that if he can do it, then I can do it. All I had was my mind and my heart.
      “I don’t do this to be famous or to get attention. When I first started, it was just me and my dad. No one thought I’d be standing here today.”
      Caleb Plant holds the IBF world title at super-middleweightCredit: Getty
      Who could Canelo Alvarez fight after Caleb Plant?
      Assuming Alvarez beats Plant and ends his streak with all four 168lbs belts in his grasp, the opportunities to have mega-fights from thereon would be near endless.
      Alvarez is a huge star in the U.S. and Mexico and can continue to fight on pay-per-view, as a free agent, for the rest of his career, if he wanted.
      If Alvarez were to stick around with PBC and Showtime for a while, a big-money fight with Jermall Charlo, the current WBC middleweight champion, would make sense.
      There’s also former champion at super-middleweight and rising star David Benavidez to possibly contend with.
      With DAZN, however, there’s still a potential trilogy fight with Golovkin to explore, with the Kazakh fighter still feeling begrudged about the results in their first two fights.
      Otherwise Alvarez could revisit the light-heavyweight division, where’s previously been the WBO champion after beating Kovalev in 2019.
      Current WBC and IBF champ Artur Beterbiev would arguably represent the toughest test of Alvarez’s career, as he boasts a menacing 100% KO ratio, the only titleholder in boxing to have that under his belt.
      Or there’s WBA champion Dimitry Bivol, a route that seems the more likely, given his relationship with promoter Eddie Hearn, whom Alvarez is closely aligned with. More

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      Canelo Alvarez vs Caleb Plant could turn into a proper bloodbath… this is NO fake grudge match

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      BOXING’S big grudge matches come along about as frequently as fights of the century.Nothing excites fans and promoters more than the anticipation of seeing a bloodbath between two men who supposedly hate each other’s guts.
      Canelo vs Plant could turn into a real bloodbath with the two genuinely disliking each otherCredit: AP
      Caleb Plant was left with a gash under his eye following his press conference scrap with CaneloCredit: Getty Images – Getty
      It certainly does no harm to ticket sales or pay-per-view TV buys, but in reality those occasions are extremely rare.
      Yet American referee Russell Mora will definitely have his hands full when Mexican Canelo Alvarez clashes with Tennessee’s Caleb Plant in Las Vegas in the early hours of Sunday morning.
      Canelo, who holds the WBC, WBA and WBO world super-middleweight belts, should have little trouble taking care of unbeaten IBF champion Plant.
      There is genuine animosity between them after they came to blows at a Los Angeles press conference six weeks ago.
      Canelo lost his normal cool with Plant, claiming the American had insulted his mother.
      It provoked ugly scenes and punches were exchanged. When security men broke them up, Plant was bleeding from a nasty cut beneath his right eye.

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      Former double world champion turned pundit, Carl Frampton, suggested the healing time for the wound would seriously disrupt Plant’s training programme.
      Plant may have won all 21 of his fights but I would have thought it unwise in the extreme to antagonise the man regarded as, pound-for-pound, the greatest fighter on the planet.
      Ruthless fighting machine Canelo, 31, has lost just one of his 59 fights – that was eight years ago when he was narrowly outpointed by Floyd Mayweather Jr.
      Though he says he wants to keep boxing for at least another seven years, my advice is don’t miss the chance to watch him now before his powers decline.
      Someone suggested Alvarez is the Cristiano Ronaldo of boxing – I rather think Ronaldo is the Alvarez of football.
      He is a massive 1-12 favourite to beat Plant to become the first fighter to unify the super-middle division.
      Alvarez predicts that he will finish the job by the eighth round – but it wouldn’t be surprising if he destroys Plant, 29, long before then.
      Despite the pre-fight nastiness, once hostilities cease no doubt the pair will bury the hatchet.
      Unlike the fourth world featherweight championship war between Willie Pep and Sandy Saddler at New York’s Polo Grounds 70 years ago.
      It’s on record as the dirtiest fight of all time.
      Until Pep retired with an eye injury at the end of the ninth, they gouged each other in the eyes, rabbit punched, kidney punched, hit below the belt and even wrestled each other on the canvas.
      Compared to Pep and Saddler, I’m sure Alvarez and Plant will behave like perfect gentlemen.
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      Canelo Alvarez makes knock-out prediction for Caleb Plant grudge fight and doesn’t expect new challenge

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      CANELO ALVAREZ has boldly predicted a knock out victory between rounds seven and nine in the upcoming super-middleweight unification bout on Saturday.This comes in the build up to the final press conference, with everyone watching closely after the two came to blows in September.
      Canelo Alvarez celebrates his victory over Sergey Kovalev in Vegas, Nov 2019Credit: Getty
      Caleb Plant at a press conference in Vegas with his IBF super middleweight beltCredit: Getty
      The IBF super middleweight title is in Alvarez’s sights as he looks to become undisputed champion.
      The contest comes to us from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
      Caleb Plant – the 29-year-old American with a 21-0 record – stands in his way.
      The orthodox fighter from Tennessee has taken part in ten week preparations with the help of the unbeaten champion’s trainer Justin Gamber, detailed exclusively by SunSport.
      Canelo, 31, comes into the fight off the back of a hugely successful 12 month period.
      He has already fought – and won – three times in the past year.
      The 5ft 9in Mexican has defeated Callum Smith, 31, Avni Yildirim, 30, and Billy Joe Saunders, 31 along the way.

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      Canelo is predicting good competition from Plant but says the American will be KO’d somewhere between the seventh and ninth rounds.
      He says: “That’s why we are here and Saturday night, we are gonna make history.
      “He’s a good fighter with a lot of skills, but he’s nothing new for me. I’ve been in there with a lot of good fighters, so it’s nothing different.
      “I think in my opinion, it’s going to be seven to nine rounds.” More

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      Canelo Alvarez’s five biggest strengths that Caleb Plant must beware from brutal power to Matrix-like head movement

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      CANELO ALVAREZ has one more step, opponent and fight in his way before becoming the undisputed super-middleweight king.IBF champion and 21-0 challenger Caleb Plant stands across the Las Vegas ring from him on Saturday night as the 7-1 underdog in a two-horse race.
      Canelo has three super-middleweight titles and fights for the IBF on Saturday night
      Canelo and Caleb Plant square off on Saturday night for the undisputed super-middleweight championshipCredit: Getty Images – Getty
      The WBC, WBA and WBO mastermind has no so many skills in his arsenal and marquee names on his record that the bookies can barely see a way for the underdog to have his day.
      The 31-year-old Mexican has won world titles at super-welter, middle and even up at light-heavy and only been beaten by the legend Floyd Mayweather, when he was a 23-year-old novice.
      SunSport found it almost impossible to list five weaknesses Plant might be able to exploit on Saturday.
      But an even harder task has been whittling down his strengths to just five.
      PUNCH POWER
      We could have been more specific and celebrated the Mexican-style body punching that Canelo used to savage brave Brits Liam Smith and Rocky Fielding.
      But then we are at risk of forgetting the head shots that knocked Amir Khan clean out and forced Billy Joe Saunders into quitting.
      The sheer brutality of the man even allowed him to batter Callum Smith’s arm so badly that his bicep detached from the bone and needed career-saving surgery!
      When Alvarez plants his feet and picks his shot, no body part above the belt is safe.
      It’s not always one-shot obliteration, from the old Deontay Wilder playbook, but it is brutal precision punching and crunching combinations that have cracked some of the toughest men in the sport.

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      HEAD MOVEMENT
      With a chin as good as Canelo’s you probably don’t even need to worry about protecting it that much.
      A couple of the flush shots knockout artist Gennady Golovkin landed, across their brilliant 24 rounds would have floored a horse but the Guadalajara ace just marched through the abuse.
      But Canelo’s head movement – which he constantly works on in Eddy Reynoso’s gym – has been earning memes of it own, thanks to its Matrix-like qualities.
      In the fights against GGG, Miguel Cotto and especially Danny Jacobs has been nothing short of amazing.
      Because the 56-1-2 ace loves to plant his feet and land power shots, he has to be an expert at defending in the pocket, in range, and he has proven himself a master of the old art.
      Canelo Alvarez sits top of the pile in Sports Illustrated’s pound-for-pound top ten list
      ENGINE
      Canelo failed at least two drug tests in between his two brilliant bouts with Golovkin but was only hit with a six-month ban, it remains a black mark on his record that his biggest backers want you to forget.
      At least clenbuterol, the asthma drug in his system that he blamed on contaminated Mexican meat, is a body-building favourite for helping to melt away fat and not a steroid favoured for helping to build fitness or strength.
      In the 59 fights Canelo has gone the 12-round distance 14 times and, just before he was a household superstar, the 10-round distance on five occasions. And never has he looked like he is struggling down the final straight.
      Even when he went up to light-heavyweight – piling on muscle to hit 12st 7lbs and blast out bonafide great Sergey Kovalev – his gas tank never seemed to struggle under the extra strain.
      And that aerobic capacity not only means Canelo always makes the final bell, but that he remains a violent threat until the last second.
      Kovalev, Billy Joe Saunders and Liam Smith were all stopped at various stages of the last four rounds of their bouts, proving nobody is safe until they hear the final bell.

      EXPERIENCE
      The flame-haired superstar is the youngest of seven brothers who all boxed professionally.
      With minimal amateur experience, the pugilism prodigy turned pro at just 15 and learned his craft the old fashioned way.
      In 2006 he enjoyed seven fights, the same again in 2007, upped the ante to eight in 2008.
      Even in the modern day, when elite fighters can afford to fight two or three times a year and the pandemic has cancelled month’s worth of shows, Canelo has his fifth fight inside 12 months on Saturday.
      The ace has struggled with southpaws, outpointed KO artists, overpowered fading legends, stunned opponents early and scored stoppages while behind on the cards.
      Caleb Plant will have to do something sensational on Saturday as his opponent will have seen it all before.
      ARROGANCE
      There is a fine line between confidence and arrogance. But in boxing – perhaps more than any other sport – arrogance is thoroughly earned and can be a brilliant weapon.
      How many of Saul Alvarez’s opponent’s have genuinely believed they can beat him?
      How many of the victims on his record has he started at down the barrel and calmly told ‘you are not on my level’? How many of them has he convinced?
      Everybody wants to fight Canelo because he is the biggest payday in the sport – he knows it too and sometimes takes pleasure in telling people that he is paying their wages.
      The Mexican has already drawn blood in this rivalry, counter-slapping Plant with two perfect shots at their pre-fight press conference, causing the America’s designer sunglasses to cut him on the right cheek.
      Plant has earned his shot and his cheque but he is going to need superhuman belief and resolve to overwhelm the will of Saul Alvarez.
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      Jake Paul has filled Tommy Fury fight contract with number of ‘bizarre’ clauses and is ‘being awkward’, claims dad John

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      JAKE PAUL has filled his fight contract with Tommy Fury with a number of ‘bizarre clauses’, according to the Love Island star’s dad John.The YouTuber turned boxer will finally settle his beef with the youngest Fury brother in a grudge match on December 18.
      Jake Paul and Tommy Fury will throw down in Florida on December 18Credit: Instagram / Jake Paul
      Fury and Paul have been going back and forth at one another for several monthsCredit: BT Sport
      And Fury’s dad John has claimed the pair’s bout agreement is full of ‘bizzare’ clausesCredit: REX
      It’s been revealed that Fury must change his surname if he loses the battle of social media stars, with doting dad John revealing there are a number of ‘awkward’ stipulations.
      The 57-year-old told BT Sport: “[Paul’s team] are being awkward.
      “The contract has been bizarre. If I was going to go through what they’ve put in the contract, we’d be here all day.
      “I’ve said yes to everything; yes, yes, yes, yes, do what you’ve got to do because I know Jake Paul can’t beat Tommy no matter what he does.”
      Fury, 22, will pocket a £423,000 bonus if he gets the better of The Problem Child, although he’ll legally be obliged to change his name to ‘Tommy Fumbles’ if he loses.
      An excerpt of the pair’s bout agreement which read: “If Fury is declared the winner of the Bout, Paul hereby agrees to pay Fury Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) directly from Paul’s purse as an additional fighter bonus.

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      “However, if Paul is declared the winner of the Bout, Fury hereby agrees to (i) commence, within thirty (30) days of the conclusion of the Bout, an application process with the Royal Courts of Justice in the United Kingdom to obtain a deed poll legally changing Fury’s name to “Tommy Fumbles,” (ii) change, within twenty four (24) hours of the Bout, all of his social media accounts to reflect the name “Tommy Fumbles:, and (iii) immediately after the Bout utilise the name “Tommy Fumbles” in all forms of media…”
      Fury – the half-brother of WBC heavyweight Tyson – has a wealth of boxing experience to his name in comparison to Paul.
      And dad John is confident his son will do a number on the outspoken and divisive Youtuber.
      He said: “Tommy knows he’s up against a stacked deck, but he should still beat Jake Paul at a canter.
      “And if he can’t, there’s no way in the boxing world for him.

      “It’s make or break, for both men, but it’ll hit Tommy harder because Tommy’s supposed to be a professional boxer.
      “Tommy will work hard, he’ll do what he’s gotta do.
      “Has Tommy got the skill to beat him? Yes. Has he got the power to knock him out? Yes.
      “All it is with Tommy – he’s young, can he handle the big occasion on the night?

      “But I’m sure he’s thought about it many times before and he’s got the king of the ring in his corner.
      “Tyson’s gonna be in his corner that night. I think Tyson’s flying out there in a few weeks to help him out.
      “Whatever desire he’s missing, Tyson will put there, I’m sure of that.”

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      Boxer Viktor Kotochigov shows off horror burns from ‘ACID attack after gang of men break into UK hotel room’

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      FORMER WBC Lightweight International Champion Viktor Kotochigov has been attacked with an ‘acid-like substance’ while in the UK for a training camp.The 28-year-old has been in England preparing for a fight scheduled to take place on December 11, as well as supporting friend Tursynbay Kulakhmet who lost to Juan Carlos Abreu last Friday.
      Kotochigov is in the UK preparing for his next fight scheduled for December 11Credit: INSTAGRAM: VIKTOR.BOXERKZ
      The thugs broke into his hotel room and threw an ‘acid-like substance’ over himCredit: INSTAGRAM: VIKTOR.BOXERKZ
      The attack left him ‘curling in pain’Credit: INSTAGRAM: VIKTOR.BOXERKZ
      But the camp has been ‘unlucky’ for the lightweight after he was allegedly attacked with an ‘acid-like substance’ by hooded thugs.
      Kotochigov explained the events on his Instagram, saying he ‘curled in pain’ after the attack.
      He said: “The England camp was a bit unlucky for me.
      “Briefly about the situation: I flew to England, to prepare for the duel scheduled for December 11.
      “Got a room and started working out. It’s been four days, sleeping at home at night, hearing some noise outside the door, someone trying to open the lock loudly.
      “I’m breaking into my mind and want to grab a knife, but there was nothing in the kitchen except for a fork and spoon.

      “The door opens, people fly in, with their hood on their heads.
      “Not long thinking I stand up and go to them but apparently they had no plans to fight me and they were pouring acid-like substance on me, I curled in pain and these people quickly hid.
      “Called the coach first thing. The coach came at night, took me to the hospital, took care of me, for which I am very grateful!
      “I’ve spent the last few days in the hospital, with burns, being watched by doctors.
      “I didn’t conflict with anyone who needed this, no idea. I understood one thing, you need to go to the camp to proven places.”
      SunSport has contacted Greater Manchester Police for comment. More

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      Inside Canelo Alvarez’s ‘old-school combat training’ camp for Caleb Plant fight where not even his own friends are safe

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      CANELO ALVAREZ is a throwback fighter with old-school training methods and even age-old hobbies.When work ethic dips around him his own friends and gym mates are not safe – let alone his opponents.
      Canelo Alvarez has been preparing for one of the toughest fights of his lifeCredit: Getty
      The Mexican superstar is being put through a brutal training campCredit: Getty
      While some of his peers and rivals prefer computerised exercise bikes to early morning runs, tippy-tappy pad combinations over real-life drills and glamorous parties over golf, Canelo is cut from a different cloth.
      In the same week Anthony Joshua visited a handful of American gyms – including Canelo’s own – looking for a possible fourth trainer to add to his corner, Eddy Reynoso has been Alvarez’s only mentor since day one.
      While most of the sports established and wealthy world champions risk their reputations barely twice a year, the biggest draw in the game has his FIFTH fight inside 12 months on Saturday.
      As some of the most exciting young talents in the business – like Devin Haney, Ryan Garcia, Teofimo Lopez and Gervonta Davis – only talk about fighting each other, Canelo jumps between four weight classes to take the biggest challenges and grab the most world title belts he can.
      The rise from 15-year-old super-lightweight to light-heavyweight champ and – if he defeats Caleb Plant on Saturday – undisputed super-middle immortality has not been perfect.
      There have been controversial decisions, most significantly the first Gennady Golovkin bout that was scored a draw, and a doping ban between those two bouts with the Kazakh KO artist.
      But the WBC, WBA and WBO champ’s methods and commitments have gone a long to erasing those memories from the minds of his fans and softening their impact for his few remaining doubters and critics.

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      In the hurt business that always looks for marginal gains and the latest fad – from vegan diets to Vasiliy Lomachenko and Oleksandr Usyk’s brain training and juggling – Canelo and Reynoso remain stoically loyal to the past.
      Before beating Billy Joe Saunders into submission last May, multi-time trainer-of-the-year Reynoso told SunSport: “I like the old-school combat training styles.
      “I prefer the traditional boxing methods.
      “I like lots of repetition, practicing and drilling the basics over and over again.
      “We want our fighters to always be improving and learning on their defence and offence.
      “There are some good boxers and trainers who use different methods, like the juggling Lomachenko does, I respect those guys.
      “But, for me, I don’t think that helps a fighter develop and I don’t think it helps the fighter’s career.”
      Too many fighters chase Instagram fame today with unrealistic pad-tapping training clips, employ staff to copy-and-paste motivational quotes across their social media channels and get sucked into their own hype.
      Canelo Alvarez works out with Ryan Garcia in the gymCredit: Instagram
      Canelo is a four-weight world champion and is trying to become undisputed king at super middleweightCredit: Getty
      He is put through ‘old-school combat training’ and ‘traditional boxing methods’ by Eddy ReynosoCredit: Getty Images – Getty
      But Canelo, the biggest draw in the game who hands every opponent life-changing millions with every fight, blanks all of those modern-day distractions.
      With 23-year-old Garcia, his own gym-mate and friend tipped to be boxing’s new golden boy, Canelo refused to pull his punches when asked recently about the starlet’s inactivity.
      The no-nonsense ace said: “Ryan has a lot of talent. But to me, in my eyes, he’s wasting a lot of time and wasting his talent. 
      “I look at him and don’t see him 100 percent dedicated and, to us, that’s a bad signal.
      “We always remind him as a team to come to the gym, to train, and to learn because you need to be in the gym. You’re learning day-by-day, at the very minimum, fighting five times a year.  So definitely, he needs to be a little more dedicated.” 
      A few days after those comments, the mentor was quizzed on whether he had caused a rift in his own camp.
      Perhaps Reynoso would have told him to tow the line or a PR advisor got into his ear and suggested a retraction?

      No chance. Workaholic Canelo doubled down on his quotes and reminded Garcia and the rest of the world why he is sitting atop an embarrassment of riches and belts.
      “What I said about him wasn’t meant to be negative, it was constructive criticism,” the 56-1-2 star said.
      “I want him to take it and use it as motivation to get himself on the right track again.”
      “If I have the opportunity to fight three, four or even five times a year, I’m happy. I’m happy because this is what I do, this is what I love. 
      “My love is in the gym and I’m always ready to fight. For me, it’s really good. But for other fighters? I don’t know why they don’t fight more”.
      TEE TIME
      Inside the gym, where Canelo perfects his head movement by bobbing and weaving out of the way of a heavy swinging punchbag, or repeats the same two-punch combination a hundred times in the hunt for perfection, he craves even more challenges.
      The golf nut spends his few spare hours away from his gym and his children honing his drive and putting on the golf course.
      Not the flashy Floyd Mayweather life of strip clubs and cash-grabs for dedicated Canelo, he prefers a very different type of green.
      On a San Diego course, sipping Diet Cokes between shots, he proved his English is improving as quickly as his swing, saying: “In previous training camps my life is gym-to-home, gym-to-home, gym-to-home and at some point it gets boring.
      “For my mind, something outside of boxing is good. It’s a very active sport and the truth is it helps me a lot in my life.
      “It’s a sport that relaxes you, after five hours playing on the course I come home and am relaxed.
      “But it’s a very difficult sport and that is why I like it. I am a person who likes challenges.”
      IBF champ Plant – a 21-0 Nashville warrior – is the best challenge available at the moment.
      But everything from Canelo’s childhood, to his pedigree and now even to his hobby, suggests the perfectionist will hold all four 12st belts by Sunday morning.
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