{"id":818253,"date":"2026-10-30T03:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818253\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T03:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:40:13","slug":"david-benavidez-sums-up-christian-mbillis-chances-of-beating-canelo-in-wbc-world-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818253\/","title":{"rendered":"David Benavidez sums up Christian Mbilli’s chances of beating Canelo in WBC world title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Benavidez has offered his prediction for Canelo Alvarez vs Christian Mbilli<\/a>, suggesting the type of shot that could put an end to their encounter.<\/p>\n

The two super-middleweights will collide in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this Saturday, with Mbilli making a first defence of his WBC world title.<\/p>\n

He was elevated from \u2018interim\u2019 to full champion last December, not long after boxing to an enthralling 10-round draw with Lester Martinez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This was because Terence Crawford<\/a>, who dethroned Canelo that same September night<\/a>, decided to announce his retirement and relinquish his four world titles a few months later.<\/p>\n

As a result, Alvarez is now looking to reclaim a quarter of his undisputed crown at 168lbs, having not fought since suffering that unanimous decision defeat to \u2018Bud\u2019.<\/p>\n

Even before that, many suspected the Mexican was approaching the end of his career, given the lack of foot speed he showed against William Scull in May 2025.<\/p>\n

From a skill perspective, though, unified cruiserweight champion Benavidez has told FightHype<\/a> that Mbilli\u2019s high-volume style is unlikely to triumph over his 36-year-old opponent.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not at the level of Canelo. I think it\u2019s going to be a hard fight, because Mbilli\u2019s going to come and put everything on the line.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if his gameplan is to just throw, throw, throw \u2026 you have to have a better gameplan than that. I\u2019ve seen how he fights. Lester Martinez gave him a hell of a fight, so I think it\u2019ll be a great fight [with Canelo].<\/p>\n

\u201cI think [Canelo] stops him with a body shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite there being a measure of bitterness that Canelo never gave him a shot at his super-middleweight titles, Benavidez still respects the former four-division world champion as a modern great<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez has offered his prediction for Canelo Alvarez vs Christian Mbilli, suggesting the type of shot that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-818253","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\/818253","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=818253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}