{"id":414459,"date":"2026-01-17T03:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/414459\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T03:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:09:10","slug":"canelo-return-date-announced-for-boxing-card-in-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/414459\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo return date announced for boxing card in Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former super middleweight champion Saul \u201cCanelo\u201d Alvarez will make his return to the \u201csweet science\u201d for a \u201cbig fight\u201d against an opponent to be named atop the \u201cMexico Against the World\u201d event on Sept. 12 in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe 12th of September, a big, big, big fight,\u201d said Turki Alalshikh, chairman of Saudi Arabia\u2019s General Entertainment Authority and owner of The Ring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAnd this will be the first card for Canelo Promotions,\u201d Alalshikh added. \u201cIt will be named \u2018Mexico Against the World.\u2019 All the fighters from the team of Canelo against the world. And [Alvarez] in the main event [for] a world title, and it will be a surprise in Saudi Arabia, in sha Allah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Crawford <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/410364\/terence-crawford-announces-shocking-retirement-from-boxing-at-age-38\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently retired from boxing<\/a>, leaving the WBC, IBF, and WBO super middleweight titles vacant and nullifying Canelo\u2019s contractual rematch clause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former super middleweight champion Saul \u201cCanelo\u201d Alvarez will make his return to the \u201csweet science\u201d for a \u201cbig&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,36109,49,48,33601,82],"class_list":["post-414459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414459","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=414459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}