{"id":671335,"date":"2026-11-01T01:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T01:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671335\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T01:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T01:24:17","slug":"canelo-alvarez-returns-to-beat-christian-mbilli-and-reclaim-wbc-super-middleweight-world-championship-in-riyadh-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671335\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez returns to beat Christian Mbilli and reclaim WBC super-middleweight world championship in Riyadh | Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canelo Alvarez marshalled Christian Mbilli as he reclaimed the WBC super-middleweight world championship he used to hold. <\/p>\n

The Mexican superstar won the title beating Mbilli by unanimous decision in Riyadh.<\/p>\n

Canelo was returning to boxing a year after his stunning loss to Terence Crawford and went straight in with a strong, previously undefeated world champion.<\/p>\n

Mbilli did press Alvarez in the first half of the fight. He threw in busy bursts and moved Canelo into the ropes.<\/p>\n

But Canelo began to exert increasing control of the action from the sixth round onwards.<\/p>\n

With brilliant skill he used a right uppercut to open a path for a hard right cross. He grew more comfortable on the ropes, working with counter-punches, and his vicious uppercut made Mbilli wary.<\/p>\n

In the eighth round Canelo finished a four-punch combination with a right to the head. Mbilli drove forward and all of a sudden the referee took a point off the champion for hitting round the back of the head.<\/p>\n

\"Christian<\/p>\n

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\n Christian Mbilli ultimately could not get to grips with Canelo. (AP Photo\/David Becker)<\/p>\n

Mbilli urgently needed to shift momentum. Instead Canelo turned the screw. Alvarez came off the ropes to work from the centre of the ring, drilling Mbilli with his right hook.<\/p>\n

In the final round Mbilli struck in a good shot but backed off. Canelo even waved him in again, but Mbilli wouldn’t respond.<\/p>\n

Canelo pressed forward, and Mbilli smacked him with a hard right. Canelo wanted to finish fighting and blasted home an excellent right.<\/p>\n

He made sure of a unanimous decision, taking the win 115-112, 116-111 and 117-110 on the cards.<\/p>\n

Alvarez is a vastly experienced veteran, who’s won it all many times over in his 68-bout professional career. Yet he was delighted, almost relieved to be a world champion again.<\/p>\n

“It’s so difficult to explain. It’s something unbelievable,” Canelo said. “Now after 21 years as a professional, 16 years ago I won my first title, now I won the title again\u2026 I want to thank everybody back home.<\/p>\n

“I knew he was a strong fighter. He didn’t throw a lot of punches because it’s difficult to throw punches with me… I did perfectly,” he added.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to keep learning, I’m going to keep working hard. I’m going to take a couple of weeks off and then come back.”<\/p>\n

\"Canelo<\/p>\n

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\n Canelo Alvarez was coming back after a stunning loss to Terence Crawford.<\/p>\n

Jaime Munguia had to weather an almighty scare to carve out a unanimous decision win over Nikita Zon and defend his WBA super-middleweight title.<\/p>\n

Zon, genuinely an awkward southpaw, found a home for heavy backhand lefts in the opening rounds. He drove Munguia to the ropes and into corners.<\/p>\n

He was on the verge of knocking out Munguia in the sixth round. He led with a long left uppercut, badly hurting the Mexican. Munguia retreated but Zon swarmed all over him. He hammered Munguia but the champion refused to fall.<\/p>\n

When Zon tired, Munguia hit back and he took clear control in the late rounds to win 16-112 and 117-111 twice on the scorecards.<\/p>\n

Towering featherweight Rafael Espinoza easily dismissed replacement opponent Ricardo Blandon to retain the WBO world title.<\/p>\n

He banged a flush cross into the top of the Nicaraguan’s head which opened up a nasty cut along Blandon’s eyelid. The ringside doctor pulled him out in the third round immediately after inspecting it.<\/p>\n

Watch Chris Billam-Smith fight Cheavon Clarke on the stacked Zuffa Boxing 12 card live on Sky Sports on November 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez marshalled Christian Mbilli as he reclaimed the WBC super-middleweight world championship he used to hold. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-671335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}