The Absolute World Warm Boxing Champion (up to 76.2 kg) Mexican Saul Alvarez accused the Argentine football player Lionel Messi of insulting Mexico. Alvarez wrote about this on Twitter.
On Saturday, November 26, the Argentine defender Nicholas Otameni published a video from the locker room of the national team during the celebration of the victory over Mexico (2: 0) in the group round of the World Cup 2022 in Qatar. In the video, Messi, sitting on a bench, laid his foot on the Mexican T -shirt thrown onto the floor. This caused discontent among the Mexicans, including Saul Alvarez, foreign media reported.
“Have you seen Messi wipes the floor with a Mexican T -shirt? Let Messi pray to God so that I do not encounter him somewhere,” he wrote, adding: “A t -shirt lying on the floor is an insult to Mexico. I want to ensure that Mexico was respected as I respect Argentina. I am not talking about all Argentina, we are talking only about Messi. “
Alvarez spent 58 fights, suffered two defeats and ended two fights. The Mexican Mexican is the first absolute medium -weight champion in history, repeatedly headed the rating of the best boxers of the world, regardless of the weight category according to The Ring.