More awards for world champion trainer Eddy Reynoso
Top trainer Eddy Reynoso continues to achieve stellar success, as the famous boxing coach will be recognized with the National Sports Award in Mexico.
On Monday the vote was held and Reynoso, who trains Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez, was confirmed as one of the winners.
Through a statement, the National Commission for Physical Culture and Sports announced the winners according to what was achieved in the period from October 2022 to October 2023.
“The boxing specialist trainer, Edison Omar Reynoso Sandoval, has positioned himself as one of the best on the international scene, in which he has achieved outstanding results.”
Eddy is known for being the man who has been in Canelo’s corner since the undisputed champion began his sporting career, in addition to having trained other great champions such as Oscar Valdéz, Andy Ruíz Jr., Luis Nery, Ryan Garcia and Oscar “Chololo” Larios.
Eddy is best known for his work as the current trainer and manager of four-division world champion Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez and was Ring Magazine's Trainer of the Year in 2019 and again in 2021. Also in 2019, Reynoso was named by the Association of Boxing Writers of the United States as Trainer of the Year together with Canelo as Fighter of the Year. It was the first time a fighter and trainer associated with each other had won the award since 1929. He won his first Trainer of the Year award by the WBC in 2018 and was named it once again in 2021.
At the age of 22, Reynoso was certified by CONADE (Certification System of the Sports Coach) to become a professional boxing coach.
During the last 22 years, Reynoso has trained and managed 35 world champions which includes the following: Canelo, Oscar "Chololo" Larios, Jose "Tecuala" Argumedo, Oswaldo "Gallito" Novoa, Rigoberto "Espanol" Alvarez, Julio Cesar "Rey" Martínez, Luis "Panterita" Nery, "Negrito" Silvestre, Nobuhiro Ishida, Zulina "La Loba" Munoz, Yazmin "Rusita" Rivas, Esmeralda Moreno, Nancy "Chatita" Franco, Janeth "La Cuisilla" Perez and Alondra Garcia.
Eddy, alongside his father Jose Chepo Reynoso, have trained Canelo Alvarez since he turned professional at the age of 15. Going through the ranks, Canelo won his first world title at super-welterweight, when he defeated Briton Matthew Hatton – brother of British boxing legend Ricky Hatton – in 2011 via unanimous decision.
Canelo made six successful defences of his WBC title, including a victory over Shane Mosley, before coming up against Floyd Mayweather. Canelo, at the time aged 22, would suffer the first defeat of his professional career to unbeaten 'Pretty Boy' Mayweather via majority decision.
Canelo rebuilt his career with wins over Erislandy Lara, James Kirkland, Miguel Cotto and Amir Khan before colliding in two fights against Gennadiy Golovkin.
The first bout between them in 2017 was scored as a split draw although it generated outrage from the boxing community with many believing Golovkin had won by a landslide. The rematch – one year later in September – saw Canelo win via majority decision to unify the middleweight division.
In 2018, Canelo signed a $365million, 11-fight deal with DAZN – the most lucrative deal in sports history for an athlete. He started with a routine win over Rocky Fielding in the same year before unifying the middleweight division against Daniel Jacobs and stopping Sergey Kovalev at light heavyweight in 2019.
Between 2020 to 2021, Canelo not only became a four-division world champion but also became undisputed champion at super middleweight – the first time it had happened at 168lbs in boxing history.
Eddy Reynoso is also known for his work with bright prospect Ryan Garcia although they split in 2022. World champion Julio Cesar Martinez and Oscar Valdez are also part of Reynoso's fighting stable. Former heavyweight ruler Andy Ruiz Jr. has also previously worked with Reynoso.
Eddy and his father also ha help from assistant trainers Amilcar Bruza, Jesus Rivero and Julian Magdaleno.
Eddy is married to Maria Fabiola Torres Escoto, who is the daughter of former world champion Efren 'Alacran' Torres. Together they have two daughters, Lia and Lina Ginet.
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