Canelo Alvarez Yes Avni Yildirim faces Saturday at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida, United States, looking for the WBA and WBC super-middleweight title. There, the star boxer will seek to break the record of being the first unified Mexican world champion at 168 pounds, being a clear candidate to win the fight.
This Thursday it was known that one of the fights on the lower card of the big series will be canceled: Julio César Martínez will not be able to appear in the ring against McWilliams Arroyo for the main match co-feature after suffering a injury to the right hand.
Revealing that “I’m very bad emotionally”, “Rey” shared his problem on social networks and apologized to all fans del Box because he could not defend the World Boxing Council’s flyweight title against the Puerto Rican fighter.
The champion uploaded images with how are your hands for dimension the size of the lesion on the right and rejects all sorts of rumors about weight issues. As notified, he now has to wait a month for the confrontation.
Other fights canceled by Rey Martínez
On August 15, 2020, Julio César Martínez had to face the same rival in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. But it had to be canceled, although this time due to a stomach problem.
At the end of last year, ‘Rey’ could not defend his title against the Aztec Francisco Rodríguez, scheduled at Canelo Álvarez vs. Callum Smith, because he reported being ill.