{"id":60868,"date":"2025-08-12T05:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/60868\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:14:10","slug":"three-fights-added-to-canelo-crawford-undercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/60868\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Fights Added To Canelo-Crawford Undercard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS YEAR\u2019S biggest boxing event now has new undercard additions.<\/p>\n<p>On September 13 at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Canelo Alvarez will defend his undisputed super-middleweight championship against two-weight undisputed king Terence Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>The generational super-fight is now less than five weeks away, and today Turki Alalshikh took to social media platform X to confirm three more bouts for the card.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"890\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"callum walsh 2\" class=\"wp-image-55749\" title=\"Three Fights Added To Canelo-Crawford Undercard 1\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/callum-walsh-2.webp.webp\"\/>Callum Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>In the super-welterweight division, Irish contender Callum Walsh 14-0 (11 KOs) will meet Fernando Vargas Jr 17-0 (15 KOs). Walsh, from Cork, has been making his name on UFC Fight Pass but will now step onto the global stage on Netflix. Vargas Jr \u2013 the son of former super-welterweight champion Fernando Vargas Sr \u2013 is also taking a step up in class.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"890\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"christian mbilli 3 1\" class=\"wp-image-55750\" title=\"Three Fights Added To Canelo-Crawford Undercard 2\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/christian-mbilli-3-1.webp.webp\"\/>Christian Mbilli<\/p>\n<p>At super-middleweight, leading contender Christian Mbilli 29-0 (24 KOs) will defend his WBC Interim title against Lester Martinez 19-0 (16 KOs), with the winner potentially positioning themselves for a shot at the main event victor.<\/p>\n<p>The third addition sees lightweight prospect Mohammed Alakel 4-0 appear in his sixth high-profile card, this time against John Ornelas 5-2-1 (2 KOs). Before that, Alakel will be in action this Saturday in Riyadh on the Moses Itauma\u2013Dillian Whyte undercard, taking on Yumanm Santosh Singh 3-6-1 (1 KO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THIS YEAR\u2019S biggest boxing event now has new undercard additions. On September 13 at the Allegiant Stadium in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-60868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60868","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=60868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}