{"id":416544,"date":"2026-01-16T09:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416544\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:06:07","slug":"canelo-alvarez-next-fight-september-2026-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416544\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez next fight: September 2026 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Canelo Alvarez will be back in the ring this year, but it won\u2019t be until September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Turki Alalshikh announced, with Canelo at his side, that the Mexican superstar will headline a \u201cMexico Against the World\u201d event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which is obviously the best possible location for such an event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The event will also be the debut show for \u201cCanelo Promotions,\u201d which may wind up being a real company, but time will tell. Canelo has worked in promotion a bit already.<\/p>\n<p>Who will Canelo fight in 2026?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Alalshikh said it will be a \u201cbig, big, big fight\u201d for Canelo, and that it will be a world title fight. That could mean Canelo fighting at super middleweight, light heavyweight, or even potentially cruiserweight, an idea Canelo has floated in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ll have to wait and see what \u201cbig, big, big fight\u201d Canelo will actually wind up taking, because pretty much every fight Canelo has had for the last 13 years has been deemed a \u201cbig, big, big fight,\u201d even William Scull and Avni Yildirim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez will be back in the ring this year, but it won\u2019t be until September. Turki Alalshikh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-416544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}