{"id":751838,"date":"2026-08-27T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751838\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:10:09","slug":"canelo-called-out-by-returning-former-champion-with-personal-vendetta-to-settle-i-want-that-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751838\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo called out by returning former champion with personal vendetta to settle: “I want that fight”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canelo Alvarez<\/a> challenges for Christian Mbilli\u2019s WBC title in October, but despite that scheduled bout, there is a new potential opponent calling for a shot at the Mexican superstar, with a personal vendetta to settle.<\/p>\n

Canelo\u2019s last appearance was a disappointing defeat to Terence Crawford in Las Vegas on September 13 of last year, meaning it will have been 413 days since he lost his undisputed super-middleweight world title when he takes on Mbilli this Halloween.<\/p>\n

That stretch trumps Alvarez\u2019s previous longest stint away from the ring by just one day; that being the 412 days that separated his November 2019 light-heavyweight knockout of Sergey Kovalev and a unified super-middleweight world title win against Callum Smith in December 2020 \u2013 which kickstarted his legendary undisputed run<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whilst Canelo is keen to prove that he can rule in this new era of the super-middleweight division by dethroning Mbilli, the four-division world champion may have the option to somewhat revisit a rivalry of old, as Jermall Charlo told Fight Hub TV<\/a> of his desire to avenge his brother\u2019s defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I want to fight] Canelo, I want to avenge my [brother].\u201d<\/p>\n

Jermell Charlo was comfortably outboxed by the now 36-year-old when they collided back in September 2023 and the former undisputed super-welterweight world champion is yet to fight since, but is currently being linked to a comeback<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Jermall Charlo has fought only twice since June 2021, but both of those bouts have been up at super-middleweight and the Texan has teased that he could return to action on Saturday, October 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez challenges for Christian Mbilli\u2019s WBC title in October, but despite that scheduled bout, there is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751838","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\/751838","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=751838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}