{"id":817751,"date":"2026-07-23T01:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817751\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T01:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:43:08","slug":"canelo-vs-mbilli-gets-new-official-date-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817751\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo vs Mbilli gets new official date in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The bout had originally been scheduled for September 12 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-news\/116936\/canelo-alvarez-vs-christian-mbilli-postponed-boxing-news-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">postponement was announced<\/a> about three weeks ago, with no direct reason given.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Canelo now says that \u201csome problems in (his) family\u201d came up, and that he wasn\u2019t ready to go into training camp because he needed to deal with that first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Canelo (63-3-2, 39 KO) will be challenging for the WBC super middleweight title held by Mbilli (29-0-1, 24 KO), who was promoted from interim champion status following the retirement of Terence \u201cBud\u201d Crawford, after Crawford beat Canelo to become undisputed champion at 168 lbs in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Canelo hasn\u2019t fought since then, and Mbilli will have been inactive the same amount of time, as his last fight came on the undercard of Canelo vs Crawford, where he fought Lester Martinez \u2014 now the WBC interim champion \u2014 to a draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The fight will still take place in Riyadh and air on DAZN pay-per-view or their \u201cUltimate\u201d tier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bout had originally been scheduled for September 12 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but a postponement was announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-817751","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\/817751","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=817751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}