On the year that has passed: “I always stay in shape. This has all served as experience, and I keep training, which is important. Thankfully, my body has been very good to me and has always been able to adapt quickly to everything. [During the time off] I dedicated myself to do other things. I needed to fix some things that I had pending. After being in the sport for 13 years, it also gave me some much-needed rest.”

On criticism: “A lot of the criticism comes from people who don’t know. They just talk. Usually it’s just people who talk for the sake of talking. They don’t read about or know about what is going on. They just want to attack people. They don’t do anything with their lives besides attack people. But that’s why I just see them and see myself and know that it won’t affect me.”

As far as the meat situation is concerned, Canelo says he already gave an interview on that topic and that’s going to be the only and last interview he’s going to do on that issue. He says he wants to turn the page on this chapter and so that we can all focus 100% on his September 15 fight against Gennady Golovkin.