{"id":255861,"date":"2025-11-11T00:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255861\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T00:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:32:10","slug":"christian-mbilli-jaime-munguia-in-talks-for-fight-in-early-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255861\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Mbilli, Jaime Munguia in talks for fight in early 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/christian-mbilli-1400\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Mbilli<\/a> and <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/jaime-munguia-329\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie Munguia<\/a> are in talks for a super middleweight clash in the first quarter of 2026, sources tell The Ring. <br \/>Mbilli, The Ring\u2019s No. 3 boxer at 168 pounds, is coming off a <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/christian-mbilli-vs-lester-martinez-result-netflix-canelo-crawford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thrilling draw with Lester Martinez<\/a> in September on the Canelo Alvarez-Terence Crawford undercard. Mbilli (29-0-1, 24 KOs) is a 30-year-old come-forward bruiser who fights out of Montreal, Canada. <br \/>Munguia (45-2, 35 KOs) is a former titleholder at 154 pounds. The Mexican avenged his shocking KO loss to Bruno Surace in May in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with a <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/jaime-munguia-bruno-surace-result-canelo-scull-undercard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">comfortable decision victory<\/a>. <br \/><a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/jaime-munguia-denies-doping-after-vada-positive-test\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Munguia later delivered an adverse finding<\/a>, flagged by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA), for exogenous origin of testosterone. The British Boxing Board of Control ultimately <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/jaime-munguia-cleared-by-british-boxing-board-control-placed-on-probation-wbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cleared the fighter of any wrongdoing.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Munguia, 29, is trained by Eddy Reynoso, the renowned coach who guides Canelo Alvarez\u2019s career. <\/p>\n<p>Follow Mike Coppinger on <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeCoppinger\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>\/<a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/manoukakopyan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>: @MikeCoppinger. He co-hosts Inside the Ring  every Monday with Max Kellerman. <br \/><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Mbilli and Jamie Munguia are in talks for a super middleweight clash in the first quarter of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":{"0":"post-255861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-schedule","18":"tag-boxing-videos","19":"tag-boxing-results","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-unitedkingdom","37":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}