{"id":916906,"date":"2026-10-01T18:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916906\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:58:20","slug":"halloween-havoc-canelo-alvarez-vs-christian-mbilli-rebooked-for-oct-31-in-riyadh-mexico-vs-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916906\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween havoc! Canelo Alvarez vs Christian Mbilli rebooked for Oct. 31 in Riyadh | Mexico vs. The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Saul Alvarez was supposed to fight Christian Mbilli for the WBC Super Middleweight title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/444821\/canelo-alvarez-vs-christian-mbilli-wbc-super-middleweight-title-fight-set-for-sept-12-in-riyadh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">back on Sept. 12<\/a>, but family matters prevented \u201cCanelo\u201d from making that date. The bout will now take place on Sat., Oct. 31, 2026 at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh. The event is billed as \u201cMexico vs. The World,\u201d presumably for pitting several prominent Mexican boxers against top international competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Watch Canelo and Mbilli face off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/445771\/face-off-canelo-alvarez-vs-christian-mbilli-staredown-video-from-kickoff-press-conference-in-egypt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHe\u2019s old now, but he\u2019s still very dangerous,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/news\/mbilli-remains-wary-of-old-but-very-dangerous-canelo-3ZbhDuTew7UJyQavFJaGZP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mbilli said<\/a>. \u201cHe has very good power and a very good counter punch. I think it\u2019s the best timing for me to have this fight. His power is going down a little bit, but he\u2019s still dangerous. Five years ago, he was at a different level. But now he\u2019s a little bit down, I think. But he\u2019s still very, very dangerous. I\u2019m hungrier than him. I think that\u2019s the difference between us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Something tells me that\u2019s not the only difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThey say I\u2019m old and this and that, but they\u2019re going to see,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AVY3-w6V3hM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canelo said<\/a>. \u201cI have nothing to prove to anybody. I just love the sport of boxing. I know I have more to accomplish. Every time I step in the arena I break some record. That keeps myself motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saul Alvarez was supposed to fight Christian Mbilli for the WBC Super Middleweight title back on Sept. 12,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,36109,49,48,33601,82],"class_list":["post-916906","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\/916906","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=916906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}