{"id":756882,"date":"2026-09-01T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/756882\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:50:09","slug":"shawn-porter-predicts-canelos-comeback-fight-against-mbilli-hes-explosive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/756882\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Porter predicts Canelo&#8217;s comeback fight against Mbilli: &#8220;He&#8217;s explosive&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canelo Alvarez is hoping to regain one of his former super-middleweight titles at the first time of asking when he makes his comeback this October against WBC champion Christian Mbilli. Two-time welterweight ruler Shawn Porter has revealed his prediction for the fight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46428423\/canelo-alvarez-undergoes-elbow-surgery-least-two-months\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alvarez lost all four of his belts at 168lbs to Terence Crawford last September and has since been sidelined due to an elbow injury<\/a>, as Crawford\u2019s retirement saw the coronation of four new world champions.<\/p>\n<p>One of those beneficiaries was Mbilli, who had been in possession of the WBC Interim crown when <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/terence-crawford-announces-retirement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Bud\u2019 decided to hang up the gloves<\/a>, allowing him to be elevated to full champion and then lined up for a showdown with Canelo.<\/p>\n<p>Canelo\u2019s remaining quality at the age of 36 is an ongoing debate amongst fans and analysts, leading many to predict an intriguing and potentially even fight. Yet, speaking on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8iX_jrJtCY4?si=2lEkJXEpbC-GuQ5x\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The PorterWay Podcast<\/a>, \u2018Showtime\u2019 said that Alvarez will look like an \u2018A++ fighter\u2019 come fight night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanelo truly does have that fast twitch; he is explosive, but he is explosive with speed and quickness and that fast twitch is going to get Canelo to that mark a little bit quicker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I think [he can still do it] at 36. If you think about it, even though Canelo is not that \u2018A++\u2019 fighter that he used to be, he is still a solid \u2018A\u2019 and that solid \u2018A\u2019 will beat a solid \u2018B\u2019 [in Mbilli].\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat solid \u2018B\u2019 will make a solid \u2018A\u2019 look like an \u2018A++\u2019, so I think that he is going to look \u2018A++\u2019.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Canelo-Mbilli takes place on Saturday, October 31, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The super-middleweight duo will top a \u2018Mexico vs. The World\u2019 themed bill, which could feature a bantamweight title unification between WBA champion and pound-for-pound sensation Jesse \u2018Bam\u2019 Rodriguez and WBO titleholder Christian Medina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez is hoping to regain one of his former super-middleweight titles at the first time of asking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-756882","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\/756882","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=756882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}