{"id":805654,"date":"2026-10-17T14:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805654\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T14:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:48:15","slug":"oscar-de-la-hoya-urges-canelo-to-cancel-comeback-against-christian-mbilli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805654\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya urges Canelo to cancel comeback against Christian Mbilli"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar De La Hoya has called for the immediate cancellation, or relocation, of Canelo Alvarez\u2019s October 31 WBC super-middleweight title challenge against Christian Mbilli, citing severe safety concerns over staging the event in Riyadh.<\/p>\n

Despite recent unrest in the region, organisers insisted that Alvarez intends to proceed with his comeback clash against the champion.<\/a><\/p>\n

Posting on social media, De La Hoya challenged the decision to press on.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Turki Alalshikh] says Canelo has no fear. Well, Canelo might not have any fear because he\u2019s flying into a private airport, but what about everyone else associated with the event? They\u2019re scared s***less\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Golden Boy promoter pointed to the postponement of other sporting fixtures in the Saudi capital<\/a> to argue that the boxing schedule should follow suit.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, Riyadh already moved the tennis event that was scheduled for next week,\u201d De La Hoya said. \u201cSo, do the right thing and move this event\u201d.<\/p>\n

De La Hoya expressed disbelief that the card remains intact, admitting he would outright refuse to make the trip under the current circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow is this event not cancelled? It\u2019s a fing enormous safety concern,\u201d De La Hoya added. \u201cLook, as a fighter, I\u2019ll be honest with you \u2013 there is no way in hell I\u2019d be going over there with this st going on. How is this event not cancelled? It\u2019s a f*king enormous safety concern.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of writing, the event remains scheduled, however, after the latest attacks on Riyadh\u2019s King Khalid airport by Yemen\u2019s Houthi forces, calls are growing for it to be moved or postponed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya has called for the immediate cancellation, or relocation, of Canelo Alvarez\u2019s October 31 WBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-805654","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\/805654","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=805654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}