{"id":869803,"date":"2026-10-03T21:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869803\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T21:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:44:19","slug":"canelo-alvarez-blindly-trusts-mexico-the-million-dollar-bet-vs-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869803\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo \u00c1lvarez blindly trusts Mexico; the million-dollar bet vs the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">Sa\u00fal &#8220;Canelo&#8221; \u00c1lvarez has shown his support for the Mexican National Team on several occasions; in fact, he backed the national side at the 2026 World Cup. Now, the boxer appears for the Concacaf Cl\u00e1sico at the start of the Rafael M\u00e1rquez era.<\/p>\n<p>The exorbitant bet by Canelo \u00c1lvarez for the Concacaf Cl\u00e1sico between the United States and Mexico<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Through his social media, Canelo showed off his confidence in the Tri and revealed a hefty bet placed in favor of the team led by Rafa M\u00e1rquez.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Canelo bet the exorbitant amount of 7,182.72 dollars (since the platform is foreign), which is equivalent to 130,449 Mexican pesos.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">While the day of his fight against Frenchman Christian Mbilli arrives, on Saturday, October 31, 2026, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sa\u00fal \u00c1lvarez decided to add some spice to Mexico&#8217;s match by betting \u2018a few pesos\u2019 on the national team&#8217;s victory.<\/p>\n<p>United States vs Mexico, the first Concacaf Cl\u00e1sico in the Rafa M\u00e1rquez era<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">United States and Mexico face off this Saturday, October 3, in a new edition of the Concacaf Clasico, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, in a warm-up match that marks the 80th historic meeting between the two national teams. The match will begin at 8:00 p.m. Central Time in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Mexico comes in after drawing 1-1 against Peru, a result that left M\u00e1rquez&#8217;s team with two draws in their first two matches of this new era.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">United States, for its part, is also going through a rebuilding phase under the orders of Mauricio Pochettino. The U.S. team arrives with a mix of experienced and young players, after a 28-player call-up for this FIFA international window. The Argentine coach is still looking to consolidate his project ahead of the next official commitments.<\/p>\n<p>The third match at the start of Rafa M\u00e1rquez&#8217;s stint as head coach of the Mexican National TeamUnited States vs Mexico<br \/>Saturday, October 3, 2026<br \/>State Farm Stadium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sa\u00fal &#8220;Canelo&#8221; \u00c1lvarez has shown his support for the Mexican National Team on several occasions; in fact, he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-869803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}