Canelo Alvarez He plans to fight in 2021 everything he couldn’t do in 2020, where at least he had the pleasure of ending the year with a championship win against Callum Smith on December 19 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, where he was crowned WBA and WBC super middleweight world champion.
Álvarez has already warned that the less he wants to make three fights and the first of them the mandatory defense of the World Boxing Council title against Avni Yildirim, between February and March and in Mexican countries. But he’s also already negotiating a fight for the traditional May 5 weekend, arguably the date he missed most last year.
Used to be Eddie Hearnpromoter of MatchRoom Boxing, the person responsible for promoting what there are already conversations about Billy Joe Saunders, which stems from successfully defending his super middleweight belt from the World Boxing Organization by defeating Martin Murray in a unanimous decision that would announce his retirement days later.
“Now we are in talks with Eddy Reynoso and his team to take on the fight with Yildirim, which is mandatory immediately, and then the fight with Billy Joe Saunders in May.”, the promoter acknowledged in dialogue with AK and Barak Show.
This fight would kick off the Guadalajara’s plan to become a 168-pound linear champion, which would require him to take on the win Caleb Plant, owner of the IBF title, in the last months of the year.