{"id":577387,"date":"2026-05-11T03:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577387\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T03:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:02:06","slug":"devin-haney-predicts-canelo-alvarez-vs-christian-mbilli-he-will-be-right-there-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577387\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Haney predicts Canelo Alvarez vs Christian Mbilli: \u201cHe will be right there for him&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After losing his undisputed super-middleweight crown, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/canelo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canelo Alvarez<\/a> is set to jump back into an immediate title challenge against newly crowned WBC ruler Christian Mbilli, and Devin Haney has shared his thoughts on how he thinks the bout will play out.<\/p>\n<p>Canelo became a two-time undisputed 168lb champion last May, but then <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/terence-crawford-defines-career-with-remarkable-canelo-alvarez-victory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost all of his titles to Terence Crawford four months later<\/a>, in the standout fight of the 2025 boxing calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez suffered an injury in that contest and has been sidelined ever since, with Cameroon-born Christian Mbilli the opponent upon his return, after \u2018Solide\u2019 was elevated to WBC world champion earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@daznboxing\/video\/7636520943841545485?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Inside The Ring<\/a>, Haney explained why he believes Mbilli is \u2018tailor-made\u2019 for the Mexican superstar and will prove to be \u2018no test\u2019 for Mexico\u2019s four-division world champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that he is a guy who is going to come forward and he is going to be right there for Canelo to let off and do his typical things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it will be easy, he is tailor made for Canelo. He [Mbilli] stands right there in front of you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if Canelo has slipped a bit, I don\u2019t think that Mbilli would be the one to exploit that. I think that it is a tailor made fight for Canelo to go in there and look good and look like he is back and he\u2019s reincarnated. I don\u2019t think Mbilli will test him at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/48640380\/canelo-alvarez-face-christian-mbilli-wbc-belt-sept\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alvarez vs. Mbilli is scheduled to take place on Saturday, September 12 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing his undisputed super-middleweight crown, Canelo Alvarez is set to jump back into an immediate title challenge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-577387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577387","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=577387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}