LIVE: Boxing ace backflips on Messi fight threat

Mexican boxing ace Canelo Alvarez has backed distant from his sensational menace to Lionel Messi implicit the Argentina megastar's arguable determination successful his side's dressing room.

After Argentina scored a 2-0 triumph against Mexico successful the World Cup, footage emerged of Messi kicking a Mexico jersey.

"Did you guys spot Messi cleaning the level with our jersey and flag," Alvarez tweeted.

"He amended commune to God that I don't find him.

"Just similar I respect Argentina, helium has to respect Mexico! I'm not talking astir the state arsenic a whole, conscionable astir the bullshit that Messi did."

But Alvarez, a champion boxer with 58 wins from 62 fights, has since issued an apology to Messi.

"These past fewer days I got carried distant by the passionateness and emotion I consciousness for my state and made comments that were retired of spot for which I privation to apologise to Messi and the radical of Argentina," Alvarez tweeted.

"Every time we larn thing caller and this clip it was my turn.

"I privation some teams overmuch occurrence successful their matches contiguous and present we volition proceed supporting Mexico until the end."

Argentina volition adjacent look Australia successful the circular of 16 from 6am connected Sunday (AEDT).

Messi is hoping to triumph his archetypal World Cup rubric successful what's apt his past World Cup campaign.