Excluding Canelo, has any male boxer successfully unified four or more times? Only including major sanctioning bodies, not Ring championships. I get that all-time this isn't the greatest question for a variety of reasons, but for the four belt era, I think it could be an interesting statistic eventually, and in fact is even starting to become one. Canelo has four, Inoue, Usyk and Crawford all have 3. Considering that these four are near universally regarded as being within the top 5 best boxers in the world today pound for pound, it seems like # of unifications won has a very strong correlation with who is considered the best in the world in the modern day, at least for >=3 unifications. Canelo's apparent record also will likely be challenged, at least in terms of a tie, in the near future. Crawford is scheduled to attempt to make his fourth, Inoue is ordered to fight Tapales in a unification after Fulton if he beats Fulton and Usyk of course is trying to make the unification with Fury. Historically, Bernard Hopkins, Evander Holyfield and Floyd Mayweather won 3 unifications. I should note that I checked every 4+ division champion, so all of those guys are off the table.
In terms of real boxing value, more than the numbers of belts unified, the question is: "He unified ALL the titles available at that time?", regardless if there were 2,3 or 4 Anyway, in sheer numbers, well, yep: Canelo holds the current record. And that's it. Canelo is still a "so and so" champion in a mediocre alphabet era, padding his resume with exhibition fights against shot competition. Thus, he gets little respect, even in Mexico. As correctly pointed, Canelo's record will be reached by other fighters sooner than later. Furthermore, I suspect somebody will come with the idea of creating a 5th, 6th alphabet box body. Thus, Canelo's record will eventually be surpassed.
Canelo gets mad props. When he faced Kovalev, Kovalev was winning the fight handily until he got caught with a clean few shots. At that point his punch resistance was completely gone, it makes no sense to imply kovi took a "dive" or it was "a sparring match." Have some respect for the krusher, he was winning the fight while Canelo was fighting his seek and destroy style, same way as he still performed and lost against bivol. And shame on Canelo haters, he closed the show in Sergei kovalev-s the same way he always won his fights: by constant pressure and a nice stoppage to close the show. So I guess a concussion for Kovalev was the "premise." For a few million,
