The day has finally arrived when we will see Canelo Alvarez back in the boxing ring, as he takes on John Ryder at the Akron Stadium.

The fact that the fight will be in his country and with his people, will allow the fighter to be well supported by many members of his family.

Canelo is the youngest of eight siblings, seven boys and one girl, so all his siblings look after him and their names are Ricardo, Gonzalo, Rigoberto, Daniel, Victor, Ramon and Ana Elda.

All of them, with the exception of his sister, had a brief career as boxers. Rigoberto was the one who got the furthest of them all, with the exception of Canelo, whom he trained in his early days.

It was precisely Ana Elda, the only female among the siblings, who told Mediotiempo what the undisputed 168-pound champion was like as a child.

Canelo was very lazy

Alvarez's sister recalled that when her parents were away, she took care of him, and he gave her a lot of headaches because he was very lazy and would sneak off to play with his friends.

"When my mum worked with my dad, she looked after my brothers, and I looked after Saul a bit more, because at that time he was the youngest," Ana Elda told Mediotiempo.

"But he was very lazy, very lazy, he didn't like doing homework, he would arrive home, throw his backpack, and then I would say to him, 'let's see, 'you're going to do your homework.

"He didn't like the idea very much, and when he saw me very distracted, he would sneak out into the street, jump over a fence, and run.

"I was very worried, because he didn't ask me for permission; Many hours would go by and the truth is that when he returned I would spank him."

She also recalled when Canelo decided to leave school, a place he never liked going to, to dedicate himself 100 percent to boxing.

"He didn't really like school, but he left, and said: 'I don't want to go to school anymore, I want to dedicate myself one hundred percent to this', but we obviously didn't know, neither did he, if it was really going to work for him or not, but he took the plunge and, despite his age, I feel that he was sure that this was what he really wanted to do," she continued.

"So he started training very young, he began to work hard, he began to have discipline, and even today, it is something I admire about him a lot, because not everyone has that discipline."

Ana Elda also said she was very proud of her brother and everything he has achieved.

Elda also made clear that despite the trouble he had caused her during his youth, she remained incredible proud of her younger brother.

"Being his sister is a source of pride, I feel very proud of him, of everything he has generated, more than anything because he is a boy who has never been involved in drugs," she concluded.

"He has known how to manage his career, to handle all this media, because it is a heavy environment, but thanks to God he is not only the best boxer at the moment, he is also a great businessman, he has known how to invest everything he has generated in business, and that speaks volumes."