Who is Avni Yildirim, the man set to face Canelo Alvarez for two world titles?
Who is Avni Yildirim, the man set to face Canelo Alvarez for two world titles? Avni Yildirim enters his super middleweight world title fight without major expectations from the outside world, but simply by reaching Saturday's fight at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Yildirim has made Turkish sports history. Eva Marie Uzcategui Trinkl/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The small, bold font at the bottom of a full-page spread in the Feb. 2 edition of Fanatik, a daily sports newspaper in Turkey, posed a simple question: "So who is Canelo Alvarez?" The query was accompanied by a short paragraph and an...
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