{"id":674865,"date":"2026-07-05T10:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674865\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:27:09","slug":"bob-arum-backs-powerful-champion-to-become-the-first-man-to-ko-canelo-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674865\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Arum backs ‘powerful’ champion to become the first man to KO Canelo Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Promoter Bob Arum backs one of his Top Rank champions to hand Canelo Alvarez<\/a> the first stoppage defeat of his illustrious career.<\/p>\n

In over 100 fights between the professional and amateur codes, Canelo has never even been dropped, let alone defeated in the manner that Arum is seemingly anticipating.<\/p>\n

As it happens, the Mexican has only ever suffered three losses in the paid ranks, coming against Floyd Mayweather, Dmitry Bivol and Terence Crawford.<\/p>\n

On none of those occasions did Alvarez seem close to hitting the canvas, or getting seriously hurt, as he was instead given a comprehensive boxing lesson by each masterful technician.<\/p>\n

Even against Gennady Golovkin, with whom he shared 36 rounds, Canelo never appeared in any critical danger while facing the hard-hitting Kazakh.<\/p>\n

Yet somehow, veteran promoter Arum believes WBC super-middleweight champion Christian Mbilli is the man to finally stop the 35-year-old in his tracks.<\/p>\n

The pair are set to collide in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this coming October<\/a>, with Canelo looking to reclaim a quarter of the undisputed crown he lost to Crawford last September.<\/p>\n

Arum, however, has told FightHype<\/a> that he envisions Mbilli winning by knockout and perhaps ending Alvarez\u2019s Hall of Fame-worthy career.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe co-promote Mbilli with a Canadian company [Eye of the Tiger], and I [favour] Mbilli to not only beat Canelo but to knock him out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know [Canelo has never been stopped], but Mbilli has the punching power to stop him.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the undefeated Mbilli boasts an impressive knockout-to-win ratio, he was unable to put a dent in Lester Martinez when they boxed to a 10-round draw<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Promoter Bob Arum backs one of his Top Rank champions to hand Canelo Alvarez the first stoppage defeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674865","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\/674865","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=674865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}