(CNN Spanish) — “Respect is mutual and everybody is aware of it,” mentioned the boxer James Munguía when he stood in entrance of his compatriot Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez, one of many boxers he grew up admiring, throughout a press occasion in March.

Munguía, a local of Tijuana, will face Álvarez this Saturday in a combat wherein he can’t be intimidated by his skilled rival if he needs to attain a victory over the undisputed tremendous middleweight world champion.

For Munguía, the love of boxing may very well be an inherited style, since his father had an expert profession within the heavyweight class with two victories in 13 fights, in accordance with specialised websites.

From a younger age, Jaime Munguía confirmed that he might go additional. He stood out in his adolescence within the Nationwide Olympiad, though he didn’t search to go to the Olympic Video games.

His skilled debut got here in 2013, on the age of 16, with a combat wherein he defeated Manuel Mora in simply two rounds. That 12 months, two months later, Canelo, at 23 years previous, was already in Las Vegas going through Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Munguía, right-handed and along with his conventional orthodox stance within the ring, continued to progress with out realizing defeat and leaving his mark of knockout.

In 2016 he had seven fights, a number of of them with extra skilled rivals, and for the primary time fights outdoors of Baja California, with duels in Sonora and Nuevo León. His fame was rising and in 2017 he had his first combat overseas, when he defeated Paul Valenzuela Jr. in two rounds in Las Vegas.

In 2018 he was near getting a stellar combat, when he was invited to be the rival of the Kazakh Gennady Golovkin. Nonetheless, the Nevada Boxing Fee didn’t approve him and didn’t grant him the license for the confrontation in Las Vegas, in accordance with Munguía’s biography on the web page of his co-promoter Golden Boy.

Regardless of this case, Munguía received his first title that very same 12 months, the vacant tremendous welterweight (as much as 154 kilos, 69.85 kg) of the World Boxing Council (WBC) by beating the Argentine José Carlos Paz in three rounds in Cancún. As well as, he took the World Boxing Group (WBO) tremendous welterweight world championship in New York in opposition to the American Sadam Ali.

Munguía retained the belt 5 occasions till he relinquished it to maneuver as much as the middleweight class (as much as 160 kilos, 72.56 kg) and search for new alternatives.

A number of of his final fights had been within the tremendous middleweight class (as much as 168 kilos, 76.2 kg), he even defeated, by unanimous determination, the skilled Ukrainian Sergiy Derevyanchenko to win the vacant WBC tremendous middleweight silver belt title, in one of the crucial vital fights of his profession.

In January of this 12 months he efficiently defended that crown in a stellar combat in Phoenix, Arizona, in opposition to the British John Ryder, whom he knocked down 4 occasions and gave him his second knockout in his 13-year profession, one thing that Álvarez didn’t obtain when he confronted him. a 12 months in the past, since Canelo’s victory was by unanimous determination of the jury after 12 rounds.

At 27 years previous and 1.83m tall (10 centimeters taller than his rival on Saturday), Jaime Munguía feels able to take the massive leap. His nonetheless undefeated document marks 43 victories, 34 by knockout: that’s, virtually 4 out of each 5 fights. There are 5 fewer knockouts than Álvarez, though the 33-year-old boxer from Guadalajara has 21 extra fights in his historical past.

“Self-discipline, effort and perseverance” are the three phrases he selected to outline himself in a publication current on Instagram. As well as, he has the assist of his coach, Freddie Roach, who has been within the nook of nice boxers equivalent to former champions Manny Pacquiao both Julio César Chávez Jr.

“It is the largest dedication I’ve had in my complete profession,” he mentioned on the March convention. “It’s a nice alternative and we’re going to reap the benefits of it very effectively,” he promised.