Six degrees of separation is a theory that everyone in the world is separated by no more than six social connections.
In other words, you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Queen Elizabeth. Or so the concept goes.
We’re borrowing the six degrees concept — well, sort of loosely — to connect fighters from the past to their more contemporary counterparts in our new occasional feature, “Degrees of Separation.”
Example: Let’s connect Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. to Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Super easy; we did it in two steps. Senior fought Grover Wiley, who fought Junior.
In the second installment of the new Boxing Junkie feature, we connect Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez to three of his countrymen who are widely considered the best their nation has produced: Julio Cesar Chavez, Ruben Olivares and Salvador Sanchez.
Chavez last fought in 2005, Olivares in 1988 and Sanchez in 1982.
Check it out:
CHAVEZ TO ALVAREZ
Julio Cesar Chavez fought …
Oscar De La Hoya, who fought …
Shane Mosley, who fought …
Canelo Alvarez
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OLIVARES TO ALVAREZ
Ruben Olivares fought …
Rafael Gandarilla, who fought …
Tracy Harris Patterson, who fought …
Arturo Gatti, who fought …
Floyd Mayweather, who fought …
Canelo Alvarez
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SANCHEZ TO ALVAREZ
Salvador Sanchez fought …
Juan Laporte, who fought …
John John Molina, who fought …
Shane Mosley, who fought …
Canelo Alvarez
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Degrees of separation: Connecting John L. Sullivan to Deontay Wilder