Canelo Alvarez He plans to fight in 2021 everything he could not do in 2020, where he at least had the pleasure of closing the year with a championship victory against Callum Smith on Dec. 19 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, which crowned him WBA World Champion and WBC Super Middleweight World.
Álvarez has already warned that he wants to fight three times, and the first of them could be the mandatory defense of the World Boxing Council title against Avni Yildirim, between February and March and in Mexican countries. But he is already negotiating a fight for the traditional weekend of May 5, perhaps the date that hurt him the most to miss last year.
Was Eddie Hearnpromoter al MatchRoom box, the one in charge of advancing that there are already discussions with Billy Joe Saunders, which comes from the successful defense of the super-middle belt of the World Boxing Organization by defeating Martin Murray in a unanimous decision, which days later announced his retirement.
“We are now in talks with Eddy Reynoso and his team to fight Yildirim, which is immediately mandatory, and then to fight Billy Joe Saunders in May.”, acknowledged the promoter in dialogue with AK and Barak Show.
This fight will start Guadalajara’s plan to become the 168-pound linear champion, for which to get the victory you would have to face him Caleb plant, owner of the IBF title, in the last months of the year.