Boxing Legend Canelo Álvarez: How Meditation CHANGED My Life & Helps Me WIN!

Canelo Álvarez
Nobody believes in me before. And I showed them what person can accomplish with determination, with that belief in yourself and everything. And I'm just starting and now entering. The arena, here is the pound for pound King Saul. Panama meditation changed my mind.

I feel in my best. I feel not just in boxing, in life. Do you have any fear when you fight today? I never feel fear. Really?

What is it you want your legacy to be? After that last match, one of the. Best in the history of boxing. And I'm gonna cry that day when you walk into the rim and hear all the people screaming and singing the song you put and everything. I'm gonna miss that moment.

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And it's been amazing to see behind the scenes. We're here. We're here. He actually trains some of his shoes, some of his gloves. You know, you've got the bag, you've got the canelo right here, the logo.

We've got his shoes and gloves over here that are actually drying, getting ready for a session, sparring session later. And we got the ring behind, so I'll show you really quick. All right. It's pretty cool. And one of the things that I was really impressed and inspired about him was his commitment and his passion for his sport, for his family, for team that he's been with for a long time and for just the process of being a champion.

And he really talks about not having the fear of pursuing your dreams and pursuing your passions, but loving the process. Again, we're in this remote location. He's got his whole setup. He's got a detailed regimen every single day. Train, rest, run, rest.

You know, think about and visualize. He's just getting into meditation. So it's so cool to see after nearly 20 years, almost two decades of mastering his craft and being at the top of his game, he's learning meditation this year, and he's talking about how it's changing his mind, it's changing his life, it's changing his ability to bring the power to his fights by adding more skills. So he's not slowing down. He's only getting better.

He's only improving himself even more. And I think it's really cool to see someone after this many years who has made so much money, hundreds of millions of dollars in his career, all the businesses, all the success, all the fame. He's a king in his country. People of Mexico love this man. It's so cool to see that he's humble to see that he talks about love, that he talks about his passion, and I just think that's really cool.

So we're here in this location. It was an amazing experience to watch him behind the scenes, to connect with him, and I hope you enjoy this interview. The first thing I want to ask you, you've almost been boxing for 20 years. Almost two decades, yeah. Is there a difference between how you trained early on, when you were a nobody the first few years in your teens versus how you train now mentally, physically?

Lewis Howes
Is there a difference? If so, what is that difference? Mentally? Is, I think, is the same mentality, the same hungry? You know, for me, I train my mental, my mind is always try to get more.

Canelo Álvarez
Try to get more history to my career. And I never, it's never enough for me, really. It's never enough for me. I always train so hard because, you know, I started, like, that training so hard because in my mind, always, when I was kid, I say, I want to be a champion. And then I realized I accomplished that champion, and I say it's something else.

More is something else there. So I always, my mind is always never enough for my mind, right? I always train so hard, and I, and I love boxing so much. I enjoy it. I enjoy it.

I still enjoy it. You still enjoy it. But it's almost been 20 years, right? 20 years. 19 professional.

Lewis Howes
19 professional. What is the three greatest lessons that boxing has taught you in almost 20 years of boxing? It's gonna be very difficult to pick three lessons because I think the man I am right now, I learn from boxing because my whole life, I give my whole life to boxing. I think boxing teach me everything, everything bad and goods and everything. I think.

Canelo Álvarez
I think boxing made me. It made you, yeah. What is the, what is the lesson that you would, you would say to your younger self with all the wisdom and experience you have now? It's the only thing I can say to them. Like, if I, if you're 15, in front of you, I have my son and say, you can do whatever you want.

You just need to be able to, to have, able to sacrifices, discipline and hard work. Yes. And have a good mentality, because if you have that, three things, discipline, sacrifices, and hard work. Hard work. But if you don't have that mentality, it's gonna be very difficult.

Lewis Howes
How do you keep the hunger alive inside of you for so long, though? Cause you were starting out as a young man wanting to be a champion. You became a champion. But how do you continue year after year to stay hungry and love us so much? I don't know.

Canelo Álvarez
I don't know. I always say, because I love what I do, and I have that passion on me and I love what I do and I enjoy it. And I'm that kind of man. I'm that kind of person. Say, if I'm gonna do something, I'm gonna do 100%, not in the middle, no, 90%, no, I'm 100% try to do my best and try to do my everything, and I think because I love what I do.

Lewis Howes
How do you manage fear? Did you have a lot of fear growing up as you started fighting? And do you have any fear when you fight today? I never feel fear, really, in boxing. I never feel how it's like to feel the fear.

Canelo Álvarez
I always enjoy it. I just enjoy a lot. My favorite day, my favorite thing is sparring days and a five day. I just enjoy it a lot. Yeah, I enjoy it.

And I never have the experience to feel the fear or something. When you became a champion, world champion, did you feel fear to lose that ever, really? No, never. Never feel that fear. Why not?

Lewis Howes
Did someone teach you how to overcome fear or is it. I don't know. I just, I always say, because I really enjoy boxing. I really love boxing. I really love being in the, in the ring fighting.

Canelo Álvarez
I never thinking about how if this happened or, I always go with that mentality to win and enjoy. Do you ever, when you're preparing for a fight, do you ever think about, well, what happens if I get knocked down or if I lose, will I feel bad or. I never think about lose. I never think about lose. I always think and train for the win.

Yes, and yes, I do. I think about if I get knockout, how I'm gonna reaction and we train about everything. Train it when you'll fall down. If I feel DC, what I'm gonna do, we always train about that. We prepare ourselves for everything, of course, but I never think about losing.

Wow. What is the process like, the day of a fight for you, mentally and emotionally? How do you prepare for that fight? For me, it's a normal day. Just nice.

Lewis Howes
Grab a cup of coffee, relax, hang out, relax. Obviously, very relaxed. But for me, in my mind, is, is a normal day, really. But the world is gonna watch you on this fight. There's so much money on the line.

Canelo Álvarez
That, you know, I don't think about that. For me, it's normal. I'm gonna do my thing, and that's it, obviously. I think I put everything together that day. We put in the whole training camp.

I put, okay, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that. We train for this and that, but for me, it's a normal day. It's like you wake up, you see me in the, if you see me in the locker room 20 minutes before the fight, I'm listening music, chilling with my, with my team. So I'm, for me, it's normal day. Are you not visualizing the fight?

Yeah, always. You are? I always visualize my fight in the night. Okay, this happened. I'm gonna do this.

Everything. How much energy does it take from you to visualize? There's a lot of energy to train, to run every day, to spar, to lift. But how much energy to actually think at night about what you're gonna do in the ring. I just think.

I don't put so much energy to think because I just. I just. Okay, I'm gonna do this and this. I train for this. And that's it.

Yeah. For me, like my life routine. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's not like I wanna do this, you know, to stress myself.

Lewis Howes
No, it's relaxing. It's relaxing. Wow, that's beautiful. And what do you think about after you win a fight? When you've prepared for months and you win a big fight and the whole world is watching?

How does it make you feel? It's the best feeling. Yeah. It's the best feeling because you put your life there. You put everything in the training camp.

Canelo Álvarez
You left your family, you left everything. For that moment. Yes. For that moment, for that win. You prepare yourself for that win.

And it's the best feeling? Yes. Then is when you realize everything. Everything you do, everything. The sacrifices you put in the gym there is the result.

Lewis Howes
It's worth it. Yeah. Yeah. Did you ever doubt yourself growing up? Like, self doubt?

Never insecure? Never in my life. How did you learn that, though? So many people in the world are insecure about who they are, right? They doubt.

Canelo Álvarez
I never doubt about myself. Was that your parents, your grandmother or. I don't know. Did they teach you how to use my mentality? Like, I don't care who is there.

I'm gonna achieve my goals no matter what. So. And I started professional boxing when I was 15 years old. So sometimes my trainer, my trainers saw the opponent and say, hey, he's too strong and he's 30 years old, and I don't care. I don't.

I don't. I don't really care. And then two rounds in that and. You knock them out. Yeah.

Lewis Howes
Do you have. I mean, do you ever have any insecurities outside of boxing, like, starting business or. And some other ventures are, you know, insecurities? I think the first time I jump in the. In the bus and try to sell ice creams and in the bus, I feel a little.

Canelo Álvarez
I don't know, insecure or I feel a little shame because, you know, I'm red hair, freckles and everything, and I feel, like, a little ashamed, maybe insecure. But you're like five, six, seven years old. Yeah. Five, six years old selling popsicles. And then I say, what happened?

Nothing happened. And then I start. I started feeling good. But I think that moment, I feel, like, a little insecure because the people saw me and say, something about me, I don't know. But then I realized I don't give a.

Lewis Howes
So 25 years ago was the last time you were insecure? Yeah. But when you're starting business, because you've got all these businesses that you've been building in Mexico and USA as well, do you feel like, oh, maybe I don't understand business fully like everyone else yet because I'm mostly a boxer. Do you ever get worried about that? Worry, yes, but I'm not insecure.

Okay. It's different. Worry about, okay, I'm gonna do with the correct persons, find the correct persons and partners. Partners and everything, you know, but never insecure because is there a lot of people bring with business and business, but at the end of the day, I'm gonna do whatever I want and I say, okay, I wanna do this, I'm gonna find the correct person to do it. So maybe worry about to find the correct partner, correct people.

Yeah. To make sure it's good. Do you ever feel, I mean, you're a legend and an icon all around the world, but specifically in Mexico, right. Mexicans love you. I love visiting Mexico.

Obviously. My fiance is from Mexico and people love you there. Do you ever feel a pressure to make them proud or to do the. Right things or in some point, yes. Really?

Canelo Álvarez
In some point, yes. Because, you know, we have a huge history in boxing. Yes. In Mexico. In some point, yes.

But some there time, I say, you know, I always do my best and I put my best in there. So I know they. My fans, my really, my true fans, they probably me. Yeah. Because they know I put everything.

Everything there is there. People who don't like, but I know that they. I can't do anything without people, you know? But in some moment, yes, I feel like, oh, I need to do this to make my fans happy. But then you realize I put everything I can in there so they will be happy.

Yeah. What is it you love about Mexico and mexican people the most? Everything. Everything. Mexico is very unique.

Canelo Álvarez
It's very unique. You know, the one or the person, the service they give you and the love. We have a lot of places, beautiful places in Mexico. I think we have a lot of. A lot of good things in Mexico.

A lot of good things in Mexico, yeah. The culture, the people, the love is something that I appreciate and really enjoy. You've got a, you know, you've got a family, you've got kids. What changed for you in boxing when you started to have kids? Did something shift inside of you?

I started having kids since I was 1717 so, yeah, changed my mind a lot, because then I have responsibility of a big man. So very hard. Very hard at the beginning, but at the end of the day, I had three jobs and then got to train. Then got three jobs, and they went to train because, you know, I have the best for my daughter. That moment when I was 17 years.

Lewis Howes
Old, what were those jobs? What were those three jobs? Sell ice creams when you were 17? Yeah, I had my dad, my bro, and two of my brothers. Wow.

Canelo Álvarez
So then go to train and sell ice cream. Yeah. Because you dropped out of school. High school, correct. Yeah, when I was 15 years old.

Right. You didn't like school. I didn't. I didn't. But maybe if I have a different life and different.

Canelo Álvarez
Different positions, maybe I do like the school, but for me, it was different. Speaking of the warmth, you know, I heard you talk about your grandmother really loving you in a big way growing up. Your father, your mother. I'm curious, could you share the biggest thing you've learned from your grandmother, your father and your mother, one lesson from each that they taught you? I think they never.

They never surrender and everything. They never surrender. Never. They always hardworkings. They always.

With love.

I think if you walk in life with love, you. You're gonna be good everywhere. Everywhere. No matter what. If you walk in with love, you want to be good in life.

Lewis Howes
Have you always had love in your heart, or have you ever had anger or resentment? I think in some point, yes, but I always have love in my heart, because, you know, I always, whatever I do, I do with my heart, right? When you have love in your heart, but you're a boxer and you're fighting. Someone, I need to. It's like a.

Canelo Álvarez
It's like an animal, right? If you are whatever animal, you good. But if you need to bring food for your family or you need to take care of your family, you gonna do everything. Yeah. And fight.

So I'm. I'm walking with love, but I'm a fighter. You walk with love, but when you're fighting. I'm a fighter. You're a fighter.

Lewis Howes
Did something switch in your mind when you had your daughter at 17? Did you become more focused as a fighter, or did anything shift inside of you in terms of I need to work harder, or was it the same type of routine? Same, same for me. I never thought about being a world champion. You never thought no matter what.

Canelo Álvarez
Never a doubt. Never a doubt about it. My daughter comes and I say even more, even more, focus, even more, determinate everything. I think my daughter teach me a lot of things and made me put that extra. Really?

Lewis Howes
So you trained harder, you focused more. I think my daughter made me put that extra motivation. And you have a big family like seven or eight siblings, right? Eight, yeah, eight. Seven brothers or six brothers, right?

Canelo Álvarez
Seven and one sister. That's incredible. And I saw a video of you talking about how your brother got kidnapped at one point right before a fight. Yeah. Is that true?

That's true. Yeah.

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That's betterhelp help.com. L E W I s. How did. You manage and I. You had to do all these interviews.

Lewis Howes
You had to prepare for a fight, mentally, emotionally. How were you able to focus and deal with the kidnapping of your brother? It was very difficult for me. It was very difficult because it was the week of the fight. That's a very difficult time for me and for the family.

Canelo Álvarez
But I don't know. I don't know how my mind go for that situation. But I always say, you know, I'm gonna do my best in everything. And at the end, everything was good, and I handled good. You handled.

Lewis Howes
Did you think about stopping the fight or. No. Just keep going. Keep going. No matter what.

Canelo Álvarez
My life need to keep going. What is being a father taught you about life? Now that you're a father of many kids, what does that taught you about? I think. I think everything you need to because you need to walk in with example for your kids.

You know, it's the best teach for them. Your kids are the best. You're the best teacher for them. Yeah. If you do the correct things and they show you how you.

How you do that things, I think they want to learn. Right, right. You can say a lot of things, but if they saw you doing your example. Yeah, yeah. Your way of being, you know, the example is the best thing.

Yeah. We were talking about meditation before we started filming that this year. You started getting into meditation. Yeah. Breathing, listening to music, meditation.

Lewis Howes
We're talking about Doctor Joe Dispenza before. What has meditation done to you to support you in your training and preparing for fighting? I feel in my best moment right now because of the meditation. Yeah, I feel in my best. I feel not just in boxing, in life, in relationships, relationship, friends, business, boxing, everything.

Canelo Álvarez
Everything. I think for me, meditation changed my mind, really changed my life. What have you learned about it? So far, everything you like. What I say.

If you walking with love, you want to be good everywhere. And it's a lot of things that love comes, you know? Limits too, right? Limits, respect every. The loves come with a lot of things, but we don't solve.

We just think our love is love. No, love comes with limits, with respect, with a lot of things comes with love. So if you walking with love, I think you're gonna be good everywhere. Yes. I ask a lot of people about the difference between success and greatness.

Lewis Howes
This show is called the school of greatness, and I'm curious, what is your definition of success versus greatness? No. Say Teresa and espanol. Greatness. Is there a word for greatness in Spanish?

Canelo Álvarez
Is it God? Greatness in Spanish is like.

Lewis Howes
Okay, in your mind, what is the definition of greatness versus the definition of success? Success. I think sex is, in life, you do whatever thing. If you got success, that's success. But a greatness, like an accomplishment or.

Canelo Álvarez
Like a world champion, that's success. And what's greatness in your mind? What I. What I'm doing, that's greatness. Go out of your comfort zone and do things.

Everybody say you're gonna. You can do it. I think that's a difference and belief and whatever you want to do. I think what happened with me is nobody believes in me before because I'm too sure for that weight classes and this and that skinny shorts, and I showed them what person can accomplish with.

With that determination, with that believing yourself and everything, I think. And I'm just starting right now. Yeah, I'm just starting because in boxing. You'Re just starting in boxing now. In boxing, whatever years come left, like four or five years, I don't know.

But in my life, in my life, I think I want. I just want to teach other boxer, other athletes. They need to put things outside boxing, too, because you know that history. The athletes come and win a lot of money or win a lot of. Have a lot of success, and at the end of the day, they got nothing, right?

Nobody. Nobody. Everybody forget that, that five years later, ten years later. Yeah. So I want to teach them.

They need to do something outside the boxing, outside every sport they do. And if you risk your life for 20 years in boxing, and then at the end of the day, five years later, you go in the same position, what's right. Yeah. Do you ever get worried about my boxing trainer when I work out for fun? I'm not a trainer like you, obviously, but when I box for fun a few years ago, I said, hey, you know, all these YouTube people were, like, boxing and fighting, and all these people, I said, hey, would you ever train me if someone wanted to fight me?

Lewis Howes
And he said, I wouldn't train you. And he was an Olympic medalist. Olympic medalist. He said, I want to train boxing. And he said, I want to train you.

I said, why not? He said, just the damage that people get with their head injuries. And he said, I've just seen too many fighters get hit so many times and hurt themselves. Has that ever worried you about just so much head on my. Yep.

Right. Has everyone concerned you or what? I always. I always. That's what I train.

Canelo Álvarez
I train to don't get so much heat. Yeah, you very good. Defense. Defense. I train so much in defense.

I don't get. I don't want to get hit. Yeah. But, I mean, this is sport. I mean, I'm what I can.

I'm never worried about it. I worry about it because I've trained. I don't, I don't. I don't want to get hit, but at the end of the day, I'm there. Yeah.

Lewis Howes
It's part of the job. When you see someone like Muhammad Ali or other boxers who maybe have brain injuries who are older, does that ever worry you or concern you? No. Yeah. No, because, you know, it's what I love, and at the end of the day, if something happened, it is what it is, right?

I had. You can go in the staircase and fall. Something happened. You know, I had Mike Tyson on twice on my show, and I had Jake Paul on. I know they're fighting.

I'm sure everyone's asking about it. I'm curious. Who do you think would be a harder fight for you right now, Mike Tyson or Jake Paul? In a hypothetical scenario, who do you think would be tougher for you?

Canelo Álvarez
I think if you put them together in the ring with me, maybe. Maybe both together, maybe it's going to. Be a little complicated, but one or. The other, they're about the same. They're the same.

Lewis Howes
You think for you, who do you think would win between them?

Canelo Álvarez
It's hard to say, but, you know, it's risky for my Tyson. Really? Why? Yeah, because he's 57 and 58. I don't know.

And, and it's. Boxing is. No, it's not a joke. It's no joke. Is.

But, uh, you know, I knoW, I get it. I get, I get, I get it. What they. Why they business. It's a business.

Yeah, yeah. They gonna fight with 18oz with not bigger gloves. It's a business. Speaking of business, you've been getting into business more and more over the years, which I'm excited to talk about as well. Real estate, your own businesses, Canelo energy, all these different brands that you're building.

Lewis Howes
What excites you the most about business and entrepreneurship?

And is it a distraction to do all that as well as Fight ever? No, no, no. It's a distraction because I have my correct people doing my team, everything, and I do what I need to do for my business, and I care about every business I have, but I like it. I enjoy doing real estates, I enjoy being my drinks and everything I do. I really enjoy it.

What is your vision for your.

You got a lot going on. What is your vision for your. For your future after boxing? Is it to be a business leader in the world or what is the main vision that you have for business? Yeah, that's my goal, is being one of the best businessmen in the world.

Really? Yeah. Why does that excite you so much after boxing? I just. I love to be involved in these kind of things and see how they go big and big and big and big, you know, starting with some and then grow up.

Canelo Álvarez
I like it so much because when I was young, I saw my brother Ricardo, he put ice cream store with $5,000 and we building five, six months, like, bring people, bring people being people, and then he sell it for 30, $40,000. So. And I saw him and I just start learning, start learning, and I really enjoy that kind of things. Well, that's beautiful, man. I've got three final questions for you, but again, I want to thank you for taking the time to do this.

Lewis Howes
This has been exciting. This is a question I ask everyone towards the end of my conversations. It's called the three truths. So it's a hypothetical question. So I want you to imagine you get to live as long as you want in life.

Be 100 years old or 120, whatever it is. You get to live as long as you want. You have the career you want in boxing. For the next five, seven years, you become a mega billionaire. In business, you do everything you want, you see your kids grow up, but at the end of the day, it's the last day of life, and you only get to share three lessons with the world.

From everything you've learned about boxing, relationships, and love and business, what three lessons would you share with the world on your last day of life?

Canelo Álvarez
I think love is a phrase, one love.

I think love is. Have a lot of. A lot of that. Three lessons. I want to say, because love comes with limits, respect and everything.

But I think love, determination and believing yourself. Believe in yourself. How do people who feel very insecure, who don't love themselves, who don't have. Any skills, I think everything comes from that. How do they learn to believe in themselves, though, if they don't have it?

It's very difficult because, you know, it's difficult to learn to have secure in yourself because they come with a lot of problems. Not from them. From the past generation. Yes. You know, from them.

It's for the past generation, they have a lot of troubles from their parents. That's why they. You acting like, because you have, you have problems that know your problems. Yes. Your generation.

So it's difficult, I think, with meditation is. It's possible. It's possible because you had a lot of past problems in your, you know, in your family in the past, but. How did you in all your problems, right. But meditation teach you that?

Yes, I think meditation is one of the best things I learned. That's beautiful, man. Because when you walking with that thing you carry from your past, you're acting like you're normal, but not. You're carrying with problems from the past. Yeah.

And you have a lot of problems, too, because you, you, you walking with that. Yes.

Are you acting. You're acting from the past, too. Yeah. Yeah. I've got one final question for you, but before I ask it, I want to acknowledge you, Canelo, for your generosity, for your passion, for your love, for your country, for the sport, for people, and just how you show up with consistency in your life, it's inspiring to watch a champion be a good person as well.

Lewis Howes
I know you give back to charities in your country, and you do so much good. So I acknowledge you for the loving man that you are in this world. Thank you so much. My final question, when you're on top of this ring with your hands raised and the flag of Mexico behind you on your last fight, 4567 years away, and it's your last moment to stand up and say, viva Mexico. After a win, what is it you want your legacy to be after that last match?

Canelo Álvarez
One of the best in the history of boxing. Yeah.

And I'm gonna cry that day. That day, yeah. A lot. While someone amazed boxing. Don't miss it.

Yeah. That moment when you walk into the ring and hear all the people screaming and this singing, the song you put and everything. I'm gonna. I'm gonna miss that moment. But that's life.

That's life, man. You're a legend. Man. Appreciate you, Canelo. Thanks, brother.

So we just finished with Canelo. Amazing time. His English is getting better every time I see him do interviews. So it was really cool to watch him talk about love was one of the main things. How to have love in your heart for your sport, for your family, for your country, for the business that you're a part of.

But he talked about love a lot, which I thought was really cool. To see someone almost 20 years in a profession love his sports and his career just as much and have just as much hunger as when he started almost 20 years ago is really inspiring. To see and to see how he keeps his family close, his team very close, and he doesn't have a lot of distractions. You know, he likes to train in an isolated location where there's not a lot of distractions. He likes to live in a location where he's not distracted, but just to have the most important things in his life at all times.

So I think it's really cool that at this age, this season of life, he is continually showing up, training harder than ever to be the best he can be. And he has no fear. He's not afraid to lose. He's not afraid to get hurt. He understands that comes with part of his career and what he's up to, but it doesn't hold him back from being determined to succeed and do something beautiful and great with his life.

And you know what he said at the end, which I thought was really cool, you know, what's it gonna feel like when you win that last fight and you decide it's time to retire? Where he was reflecting on how that would look after 2025 years plus of a career to then feel all the emotions rushing in on that last fight. So had a beautiful time. Amazing inspiration with the greatest of all time, Canelo. I hope today's episode inspired you on your journey towards greatness.

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Boxing Legend Canelo Álvarez: How Meditation CHANGED My Life & Helps Me WIN!

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