{"id":817177,"date":"2026-10-29T03:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817177\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T03:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T03:38:08","slug":"golovkins-former-trainer-abel-sanchez-predicts-canelo-vs-christian-mbilli-hes-very-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817177\/","title":{"rendered":"Golovkin\u2019s former trainer Abel Sanchez predicts Canelo vs Christian Mbilli: &#8220;He&#8217;s very limited&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canelo Alvarez seeks to win back one of his super-middleweight world titles when he collides with Christian Mbilli on Saturday night. Ahead of the fight, longtime trainer of rival Gennadiy Golovkin, Abel Sanchez, has revealed his final prediction.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez represents all three blemishes on the 42-2-1 record of \u2018Triple G\u2019, drawing with and then twice defeating the hard-hitting Kazakh in their <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/canelo-golovkin-lite-a-bitter-rivalry-crawls-to-its-conclusion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iconic trilogy in the middleweight and then super-middleweight division<\/a>, where Canelo successfully defended his undisputed title.<\/p>\n<p>Canelo would go on to lose his four belts to Terence Crawford, but he can recover one this weekend when he bids for Mbilli\u2019s WBC strap.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ahJj7Y4UmUc?si=QgHvmulvBSDaYtyF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Zittel<\/a>, Sanchez \u2013 who trained Golovkin for nine years and two Canelo clashes \u2013 praised the mentality and discipline of the Mexican four-division world champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery coach should look at his [Canelo\u2019s] discipline and his work ethic. He may not have the best technique, he may not have the best [footwork] but he just seems to be a hard, disciplined worker in the gym and, as a coach, you can\u2019t look for any more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When it came to the fight itself, Sanchez described Mbilli as \u2018limited\u2019 and admitted that he is favouring a Canelo win, refusing to read too much into the veteran\u2019s defeat to Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMbilli is very limited as far as what he does. Canelo has a lot more tactics that he uses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that Canelo still beats him. Canelo is still working hard, I haven\u2019t seen him grow old, he tried against Terence [Crawford] and Terence is a great talent, so it is always going to be difficult against Terence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody else, he has dominated from the fifth\/sixth round on, so I see Canelo winning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazn.com\/en-GB\/news\/boxing\/canelo-alvarez-vs-christian-mbilli-how-to-watch-fight-time-ringwalks-prediction-undercard-news-odds\/19uijwuynxykz1wt8mworc2iqq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Canelo-Mbilli takes place on Saturday, October 31, live on DAZN PPV<\/a>, with reigning world champions Jaime Munguia and Rafael Espinoza also set to appear on the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez seeks to win back one of his super-middleweight world titles when he collides with Christian Mbilli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817177","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\/817177","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=817177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}