{"id":850491,"date":"2026-08-10T17:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850491\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:40:10","slug":"tim-bradley-picks-a-winner-in-canelo-alvarez-vs-christian-mbilli-hes-going-to-piece-him-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850491\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley picks a winner in Canelo Alvarez vs Christian Mbilli: “He’s going to piece him up”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Bradley anticipates a \u201chell of a fight\u201d unfolding between Canelo Alvarez<\/a> and Christian Mbilli, but only sees one man emerging victorious on October 31.<\/p>\n

The pair will collide in a super-middleweight contest in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with Mbilli making a first defence of his WBC world title.<\/p>\n

He was upgraded from \u2018interim\u2019 to full champion following the retirement of Terence Crawford, who became the undisputed 168lb king by dethroning Canelo with a unanimous decision victory<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n

That same night, Mbilli defended his then-interim belt with a 10-round draw against Lester Martinez, producing a performance that aptly reflected his high-volume style.<\/p>\n

But while the Frenchman does, indeed, force a considerable pace in the ring, many doubt that this will be enough to trump the 36-year-old Canelo.<\/p>\n

Despite coming to the end of his decorated career, the Mexican hardly disgraced himself against Crawford and, prior to that, had remained unbeaten since his 2022 defeat to Dmitry Bivol<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but many feel Alvarez is a more technically savvy operator than Mbilli, who throws punches in bunches but typically comes forward in straight lines.<\/p>\n

It is partly because of this that Hall of Famer Bradley, while speaking with FightHype<\/a>, has predicted a dominant victory for Canelo.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe going to piece Mbilli\u2019s ass up. I like Mbilli \u2013 tough guy, comes to bring the pain. It\u2019s going to be a hell of a fight. But Canelo going to catch and shoot on his ass all night long.<\/p>\n

\u201cUppercuts, hooks \u2026 it\u2019s going to be bad. [Canelo\u2019s] going to look like he\u2019s back [to his best].\u201d<\/p>\n

By \u201ccatch and shoot\u201d, Bradley means he is expecting Canelo to punish Mbilli with his counterpunching prowess, even if the 31-year-old keeps springing back with relentless aggression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley anticipates a \u201chell of a fight\u201d unfolding between Canelo Alvarez and Christian Mbilli, but only sees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-850491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850491","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=850491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}