{"id":767370,"date":"2026-09-11T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767370\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:10:09","slug":"canelo-alvarez-delivers-honest-verdict-on-christian-mbillis-ability-ahead-of-world-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767370\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez delivers honest verdict on Christian Mbilli’s ability ahead of world title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canelo Alvarez<\/a> has assessed Christian Mbilli\u2019s overall skillset, beyond his remarkable ability to throw and absorb copious amounts of punches, ahead of their super-middleweight showdown.<\/p>\n

The pair will collide in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on October 31, with Mbilli making a first defence of his WBC world title.<\/p>\n

Initially, it was planned that they would meet this weekend<\/a>, only for Canelo to delay their encounter on account of \u201cfamily reasons\u201d.<\/p>\n

As a result, both fighters will have incurred over a year of inactivity when they finally lock horns, with Alvarez also coming off a unanimous decision defeat to Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Mexican hardly disgraced himself in their Las Vegas contest but, even so, he was handily beaten and dethroned by a naturally smaller man.<\/p>\n

Canelo will therefore have a point to prove as he attempts to reclaim a quarter of his undisputed crown, with Mbilli having been elevated from \u2018interim\u2019 to full WBC champion following Crawford\u2019s retirement.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman had defended his interim title on the same night that Alvarez lost to \u2018Bud\u2019, boxing to a thrilling 10-round draw against Lester Martinez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While speaking with DAZN<\/a>, though, Canelo insisted that neither man impressed him with their performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo [I was not impressed with Mbilli or Martinez]. They take and throw punches like crazy \u2013 and they are strong, of course \u2013 but that\u2019s not boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n

While believing that Mbilli is not the most cultured of boxers, Canelo can at least respect the 31-year-old\u2019s physical attributes which, at this stage in his career, could cause the 36-year-old serious problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez has assessed Christian Mbilli\u2019s overall skillset, beyond his remarkable ability to throw and absorb copious amounts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767370","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\/767370","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=767370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}