{"id":587457,"date":"2026-04-05T17:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587457\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:24:16","slug":"canelos-immediate-world-title-shot-comeback-fight-receives-major-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587457\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo’s immediate world title shot comeback fight receives major boost"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new development means Canelo Alvarez<\/a> is even more likely to challenge for a world title in his next outing.<\/p>\n

Canelo was last in action in September when he lost his undisputed super-middleweight crown to Terence Crawford at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

The Mexican superstar had hoped to secure a rematch with Crawford, but instead \u2018Bud\u2019 announced his retirement<\/a>, resulting in the world title belts becoming vacant.<\/p>\n

One of those titles is now in the possession of Christian Mbilli, who became WBC super-middleweight champion after he was elevated from interim status, and the 30-year-old has since made his intentions of sharing the ring with Canelo perfectly clear.<\/p>\n

Mbilli\u2019s trainer Marc Ramsay had told Boxing News this week<\/a> that they were waiting on a decision from the WBC on whether they may need to face newly-crowned interim champion Lester Martinez before a potential Canelo bout, but a verdict has now been reached.<\/p>\n

In their new divisional updates<\/a>, the WBC revealed that Martinez will have to face two opponents in order to keep his belt and eventually earn a shot at the full title, paving the way for Canelo to head straight into a clash with Mbilli.<\/p>\n

\u201cLester Martinez defeated Immanuwel Aleem on March 21 in San Bernardino, California, to capture the Interim Title. Martinez is now obligated to fulfill two mandatory defenses.<\/p>\n

\u201cLuka Plantic to fight an elimination bout. Jacob Bank vs. Paulinus Ndjolomino \u2013 eliminator \u2013 April 25 in Denmark.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canelo\u2019s return is planned for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in September, so all signs now point towards his next bout being a fight with Mbilli for the WBC super-middleweight title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new development means Canelo Alvarez is even more likely to challenge for a world title in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-587457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587457","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=587457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}