{"id":946913,"date":"2026-10-30T23:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946913\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T23:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:12:13","slug":"canelo-names-the-rematch-he-wants-more-between-terence-crawford-and-dmitry-bivol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946913\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo names the rematch he wants more between Terence Crawford and Dmitry Bivol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/canelo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canelo Alvarez<\/a> has suffered two career defeats within the last four-and-a-half years, losing to both <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/dmitry-bivol\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dmitry Bivol<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/terence-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Alvarez has revealed which man he would prefer to rematch before hanging up the gloves.<\/p>\n<p>Canelo first suffered defeat at the hands of Floyd Mayweather Jr back in 2013, but the Mexican superstar would recover from that loss and go on to become a four-division world champion and the pound-for-pound king of the sport in the years followed.<\/p>\n<p>It was not until 2022 that Canelo was trumped for a second time, when a move up to the light-heavyweight division backfired and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/dmitry-bivol-how-i-beat-canelo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he was outpointed by Dmitry Bivol<\/a>, who went on to emerge as a pound-for-pound star himself.<\/p>\n<p>Then, after becoming a two-time undisputed super-middleweight world champion, Canelo lost all four of his 168lb belts to Crawford last September, with that legacy-defining win seeing Crawford retire during the aftermath \u2013 shunning a lucrative second encounter with Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@daznboxing\/video\/7702083278689307918?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DAZN Boxing<\/a>, Canelo revealed that he would prefer the opportunity to rematch Crawford than Bivol, believing that the defeat hurts him more because it was his most recent shortcoming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that Crawford, right now, is the fight that I want right now because it [the loss] was recent, so that is why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canelo makes his ring return on Saturday in a first outing since defeat to Crawford, ending a career-longest 13-month spell of inactivity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/50228163\/canelo-interview-crawford-loss-christian-mbilli-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">as he challenges for Christian Mbilli\u2019s WBC super-middleweight title<\/a> in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez has suffered two career defeats within the last four-and-a-half years, losing to both Dmitry Bivol and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-946913","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\/946913","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=946913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}