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COMPARISONS with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez are nothing new in the world of Jaime Munguia, yet never will the latter have felt such scrutiny and the need for favourable comparisons than last weekend.
That’s the deal to which you agree when deciding to face an opponent Alvarez has recently beaten, and Munguia will have been only too aware of this going into his super-middleweight fight against John Ryder. He will have no doubt watched his countryman defeat Ryder last May and will have been conscious, too, of the effort Ryder produced in denying Alvarez what many felt beforehand would be an inevitable stoppage win. Moreover, Munguia, having seen Alvarez comfortably beat Ryder but fail to deter him, will have known that to now pursue Ryder as an opponent himself would only make sense if he could then better Alvarez’s result.
That, of course, is no easy task. Ryder, after all, was no doubt
