{"id":690020,"date":"2026-05-23T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/690020\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:20:09","slug":"canelo-mbilli-stare-each-other-down-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/690020\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo, Mbilli Stare Each Other Down In Egypt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mbilli was promoted to undisputed champion after Crawford <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/406929\/terence-crawford-stripped-wbc-title-won-canelo-alvarez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was stripped of the title not long after defeating Canelo.<\/a> Mbilli is undefeated at 29-0-1 and was last seen defeating Maciej Sul\u0119cki via first-round knockout in June 2025. Now, the French-Cameroonian is cashing in on his biggest payday against the man many still considered the face of boxing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The two men took part in the kickoff press conference recently in Cairo, Egypt to promote their fight. While there, both men took in all the festivities with several current boxing stars such as Terence Crawford and Anthony Joshua, who are all in town to take in the WBC Heavyweight title fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Rico Verhoeven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Needles to to say, Canelo\u2019s confidence is sky high going into his next title fight and made it known to the champion that even though he has the belt he has zero chance to beat him come fight night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYou\u2019re no Golovkin\u2026 if I\u2019m 50 years old right now, you couldn\u2019t beat me,\u201d said Canelo during the pre-fight presser. Check out their previous staredown in front of the Pyramids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the latest boxing-related news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mbilli was promoted to undisputed champion after Crawford was stripped of the title not long after defeating Canelo.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,40762,785,85],"class_list":["post-690020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690020","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=690020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}