{"id":277028,"date":"2025-11-11T20:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277028\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:21:07","slug":"canelo-alvarez-offered-new-world-title-shot-to-chase-greatness-who-else-is-there-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277028\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez offered new world title shot ‘to chase greatness’: “Who else is there for him?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite losing to Terence Crawford<\/a> in September, it would seem that Canelo Alvarez<\/a> still has a number of lucrative options for his next outing.<\/p>\n

The former two-time undisputed king entered his last assignment as a sizeable favourite, only to find that Crawford, the considerably smaller man, had far too many tricks up his sleeve.<\/p>\n

As a result, Canelo lost his super-middleweight crown<\/a>, which he had reclaimed with a win over William Scull earlier this year, via a unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

Immediately after suffering his third professional defeat, though, the 35-year-old maintained his desire to not only remain in the sport, but further enhance his already illustrious career.<\/p>\n

And now, it seems, he could soon secure the opportunity to do just that, albeit away from his more familiar territory at 168lbs.<\/p>\n

For years, Canelo\u2019s name has been linked with that of David Benavidez and, even now, fans are still clamouring to see the pair lock horns.<\/p>\n

But while it is a matchup that seems to make perfect sense, Canelo has never quite reciprocated Benavidez\u2019s enthusiasm for the potential showdown.<\/p>\n

The two were first mentioned in the same breath when they were both campaigning at 168lbs but, since then, Benavidez has become the WBC light-heavyweight champion.<\/a><\/p>\n

Since moving up in weight, the 28-year-old has amassed points victories over Oleksandr Gvozdyk and David Morrell, with his next assignment, against Anthony Yarde, headlining a card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on November 22.<\/p>\n

And yet, while remaining focused on the task at hand, Benavidez has invited Canelo to move back up to 175 and challenge him for his belt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t given up complete hope in that fight. I feel like, until he retires, and he\u2019s out of the sport of boxing, there\u2019s always going to be a possibility of that fight being made.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, what other fights are left for Canelo? Now, it seems like I\u2019ve got the cards in my hands: He doesn\u2019t have any belts at 168[lbs].<\/p>\n

I have a belt at 175[lbs], and I\u2019m planning on getting all the belts at 175[lbs].<\/p>\n

[Canelo] says he\u2019s chasing greatness. He did what he did at 168[lbs], so now, why not come up to 175[lbs] and do the same thing?\u201d<\/p>\n

Benavidez\u2019s clash with Yarde takes place next weekend, on a bill that also features Brian Norman Jr defending his WBO welterweight title against Devin Haney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite losing to Terence Crawford in September, it would seem that Canelo Alvarez still has a number of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-277028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}