{"id":774143,"date":"2026-09-18T00:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774143\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:20:10","slug":"hamzah-sheeraz-sums-up-mbillis-chances-of-handing-canelo-a-fourth-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774143\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamzah Sheeraz sums up Mbilli&#8217;s chances of handing Canelo a fourth defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamzah Sheeraz is hoping to secure a lucrative unification showdown with Canelo Alvarez in 2027, but the Mexican superstar must first overcome reigning WBC super-middleweight world champion, Christian Mbilli.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/live\/cg421lplnr4t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alvarez lost the undisputed super-middleweight crown to Terence Crawford last year<\/a>, but the American\u2019s subsequent retirement saw the titles become fragmented and now reassigned or captured.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Mbilli was one of those beneficiaries and Canelo has made the French-Cameroonian \u2013 and his WBC strap \u2013 his target ahead of his comeback following a career-long 13-month inactive spell due to an elbow injury.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/news\/61RfZx13PLXKhuUEfjpYYI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ring Magazine<\/a>, Sheeraz, who claimed the vacant WBO world title back in May, denied suggestions that 36-year-old Alvarez is on the decline and forecasted a first win inside of the distance since 2021 when he collides with Mbilli next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see it being the end of Canelo, and I\u2019ll tell you why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis last two performances have been against, I wouldn\u2019t say negative but slick fighters. William Scull, very negative. He\u2019d make anyone look bad. Stylistically, it wasn\u2019t ideal for Canelo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrawford is Crawford. He\u2019s a special fighter. You could put anyone in with him, and he\u2019s dealing with him. It\u2019s as simple as that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI truly believe Mbilli is tailor-made for Canelo. He doesn\u2019t move his feet. He comes forward. He\u2019s there to be hit, and I believe Canelo will get him out of there late.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if he doesn\u2019t get him out of there late, he\u2019ll have a very comfortable unanimous decision victory, but in an active fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canelo-Mbilli takes place on October 31 in Riyadh, with <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/canelo-stablemate-added-to-mbilli-card\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at least two additional world title bouts set to feature on the \u2018Mexico vs. The World\u2019 themed bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamzah Sheeraz is hoping to secure a lucrative unification showdown with Canelo Alvarez in 2027, but the Mexican&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774143","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\/774143","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=774143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}