{"id":651598,"date":"2026-06-22T04:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651598\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T04:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:19:07","slug":"canelo-targeted-by-undefeated-top-contender-ahead-of-comeback-i-beat-him-for-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651598\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo targeted by undefeated top contender ahead of comeback: “I beat him for sure”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canelo Alvarez<\/a> no longer holds a super-middleweight world title, but that hasn\u2019t stopped a host of his 168lb rivals from targeting a fight with him.<\/p>\n

Alvarez lost as a super-middleweight for the first time when he was outpointed by Terence Crawford last year<\/a>, but the 35-year-old will have the opportunity to reclaim the WBC belt upon his return in September when he fights new champion Christian Mbilli.<\/p>\n

Victory will see Canelo continue into the next era of the super-middleweight division as a man with a target on his back, as a number of fresh-faced operators each jostle to land a lucrative scrap with the four-division world champion.<\/p>\n

One of those men is California\u2019s Diego Pacheco, who had been positioned for a shot at the WBO super-middleweight world title against Hamzah Sheeraz until he withdrew from purse bids and allowed Sheeraz to fight Alem Begic<\/a> \u2013 who was halted inside two rounds by the Brit.<\/p>\n

In an interview with ESNEWS<\/a>, Pacheco named his three-man hitlist, which included both Canelo and Sheeraz, as well as WBA super-middleweight titleholder Jaime Munguia.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Jaime] Munguia, [Hamzah] Sheeraz and Canelo, [that is who I want]. I think that me and Munguia go the distance, I stop Hamzah Sheeraz and me and Canelo go the distance, as well, but I win all three, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pacheco recently extended his contract with Matchroom Boxing and he will hope to maintain his 25-fight undefeated record when he appears on home soil against Immanuwel Aleem, on the Cruz-Bell undercard on Saturday, July 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez no longer holds a super-middleweight world title, but that hasn\u2019t stopped a host of his 168lb…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651598","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\/651598","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=651598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}