{"id":875113,"date":"2026-08-28T23:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875113\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:20:09","slug":"canelo-alvarez-targeted-by-undefeated-ko-artist-the-world-will-see-what-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875113\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez targeted by undefeated KO artist: “The world will see what happens”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canelo Alvarez<\/a> has been called out by a top super-middleweight contender ahead of his world title shot against Christian Mbilli.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old has not fought since last September, back when he lost his undisputed crown via a unanimous decision verdict against Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While favoured by many to emerge victorious, given his natural size advantage, Canelo was ultimately outclassed, at times, by his more dynamic and skilful opponent.<\/p>\n

But instead of calling time on his decorated career, the Mexican is now bidding to reclaim a quarter of his 168lb undisputed championship against France\u2019s unbeaten Mbilli.<\/p>\n

Featuring on the Canelo-Crawford card, Mbilli boxed to a 10-round draw against Lester Martinez<\/a> and was subsequently elevated from \u2018interim\u2019 to full WBC champion.<\/p>\n

Like Alvarez, the 31-year-old has not fought since that night in Las Vegas, but will nonetheless make a first defence of his title in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on October 31.<\/p>\n

Martinez, meanwhile, is gearing up to defend his WBC interim title against fellow unbeaten contender Luka Plantic, headlining a ProBox TV show in Los Angeles this weekend.<\/p>\n

If he emerges triumphant, the 30-year-old has told Fight Hub TV<\/a> that he would gladly face Canelo or Mbilli, just so long as he secures a shot at the full WBC belt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want both fights, to be honest. Everyone saw the original fight [with Mbilli] and they obviously want the rematch.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the Canelo fight \u2013 he\u2019s a [big] name, and the people will watch it. We [would] be in the opposite corner, so the world will eventually see what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Martinez retains his status as the WBC\u2019s mandatory challenger, then the winner of Mbilli-Canelo could soon be ordered to face him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez has been called out by a top super-middleweight contender ahead of his world title shot against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-875113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875113","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=875113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}