By the end they only kept me and Ronald Ellis. "At the beginning five of us started the camp. I've got to give it my all, we have to push him, we are there to make him work. "Sometimes media and cameras would be there, sometimes it would be just my coach, the Reynosos and Canelo's family watching. When he gets to the gym, before he gets changed, he walks around the whole gym and says hi to everyone. "It is intimidating but also welcoming," Ben Alvarez said of the training base in San Diego, California, which is also due to become the new home for Andy Ruiz Jr. But after one training session, essentially a trial, he was kept on for the duration of Canelo's preparation to eventually defeat WBO light-heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev last year.Ĭanelo is described as "humble and respectful" and "a good guy inside and outside of the ring" but contact was kept to a bare minimum.
His coach knew Chepo and Eddy Reynoso, Canelo's father-and-son duo of trainers, who were initially sceptical about Ben Alvarez's suitability as a sparring partner because he was still an amateur boxer. He is based in Canada but born in Chile as such he speaks Spanish, which ticks a major box for Canelo's team who can transmit their instructions to him quicker and easier.
"It is welcoming but there is a business atmosphere."īen Alvarez is a 24-year-old light-heavyweight who won his pro debut earlier this year. I was there for one reason, for one purpose. "I was there to prove myself, show what I can do. I would go to the gym to spar, that's it," Ben Alvarez explains. Was there no closeness at all, even after several weeks? Quigley: Canelo fight is 'high possibility'.Pacquiao then opened up personally and together they enjoyed Thai dinners and did shots at the bar during the world champion's 30th birthday party. Manny Pacquiao prepared for four world title fights by sparring Dean Byrne who told Sky Sports that he earned respect by keeping pace on marathon runs around Hollywood. The life of a hired sparring partner for a high-profile boxer can be an unusual one but, for the select few who prove able to last the arduous distance without having to withdrew early with a crushed spirit, it is invaluable. #boxing #boxinglife #canelo #caneloteam #canelocamp #camplife #boxingtraining #teamalvarez #canelokovalev #canelovskovalevnov2 #ultrainstinct #yeg #yegfitness #trainhard #hardwork #dedication #focus #believeinyourvision #nevergiveup #cali #sandiego #mexico #chile #canada #box #sparring #alpha #teamalphaĪ post shared by Benjamin Alvarez???????? on at 6:15pm PDT In Hungarian (and other languages), subtitled.More rounds with the champ, always a pleasure to help.
But while it might seem foolish (or worse) to look for a happy ending to such a story, Nemes’ conclusion may leave you wondering why you watched, or why we have stories at all. It’s a smart move: as Saul is focused on the boy, so we are focused on Saul, when we might otherwise be overwhelmed by what surrounds him. Nemes mostly keeps the camera close on Saul’s head throughout his noble, impossible quest, letting the camp’s horror play out at the edges or offscreen. His position as sonderkommando (or “secret bearer”) gives him a certain amount of freedom to move within the camp, and while his fellows use that freedom to plot sabotage and escape, Saul has something else in mind: the proper burial of a boy he believes to be his son, with a rabbi present to say the prayer for the dead. There is no need.) Jewish prisoner Saul Ausländer’s (Géza Röhrig, whose face seems built to hold shadows) entire life is built around the orderly disposal of people: stripping them, gassing them, sorting through their belongings, cleaning up the scene of their demise, hauling them to the ovens, and ultimately, shoveling their ashes into the river. (Not that it’s ever stated so prosaically, or stated at all. Right up until the end, director and co-writer László Nemes’ tale of Auschwitz’s prisoner-janitors is a riveting, fascinating account of one man’s struggle, in the face of terrible suffering, to salvage human dignity through a single act of religious piety.