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When on Saturday Saul "Canelo" Alvarez walks to the ring to defend his undisputed super-middleweight title against Jaime Munguia, there will be one spectator among the crowd at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena watching with a particularly keen eye. The all-Mexican confrontation, on the occasion of Cinco de Mayo weekend, comes with Alvarez under increasing pressure to fight David Benavidez, the American widely considered to represent his greatest threat. It also comes two years after the defeat by Dmitrii Bivol that triggered suggestions that the world's highest-profile fighter is in decline, which in turn preceded three successive victories in which he struggled to demonstrate the explosive qualities that often defined his admirable ascent when, on each occasion - against Gennady Golovkin, John Ryder and Jermell Charlo - he was as much a favourite as he is against Munguia.
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