{"id":815715,"date":"2026-10-27T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815715\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:34:08","slug":"shawn-porter-delivers-ko-prediction-for-canelo-vs-christian-mbilli-title-fight-hell-stop-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815715\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Porter delivers KO prediction for Canelo vs Christian Mbilli title fight: &#8220;He&#8217;ll stop him&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/canelo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canelo Alvarez<\/a> attempts to reclaim the WBC super-middleweight title as he challenges Christian Mbilli on Saturday, and ahead of the action, two-time welterweight world champion Shawn Porter has predicted that the fight will not go the full distance.<\/p>\n<p>Canelo has gone the full 12 rounds in his last eight bouts, having not registered a stoppage since <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/with-an-utterly-ruthless-finish-canelo-alvarez-knocks-out-caleb-plant-to-assume-super-middleweight-supremacy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he halted Caleb Plant in 2021 to become the first undisputed super-middleweight world champion in boxing history<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 24 of Mbilli\u2019s 29 career victories have not required the judges and the French-Cameroonian has scored first-round knockouts in two of his last four contests, quickly disposing of both Mark Heffron and Maciej Sulecki.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DAZNBoxing\/status\/2111625813770596619?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">DAZN<\/a>, Porter advised Mbilli to target the body of Canelo, in what will be the champion\u2019s first ever world title bout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has a similar style to me, I could do a lot of what Mbilli does. I would tell Mbilli, \u2018While you are pushing Canelo back, make sure you are digging to the body and then also make sure that you are stepping around him\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the most important part for Mbilli is making sure that he stays off the line because he is going to be right in line for a right-hand all night because we know he is straight, he is right there in front of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet, despite offering \u2018Solide\u2019 some words of wisdom, Porter went on to predict that Canelo will end his ongoing decision streak and score a statement stoppage win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got him [Canelo] stopping Mbilli. Uppercut or left-hook.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/50226781\/saul-canelo-alvarez-christian-mbilli-boxing-how-watch-uk-ring-walk-date-tv-channel-undercard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Canelo-Mbilli takes place on Saturday, October 31<\/a> at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, with world champions Rafael Espinoza and Jaime Munguia also set to appear on the undercard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez attempts to reclaim the WBC super-middleweight title as he challenges Christian Mbilli on Saturday, and ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815715","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\/815715","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=815715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}