Due to the health emergency caused by Covid-19, the possibility has fallen that Canelo will soon get into an argument on Mexican soil.
The possibility that Canelo Alvarez will appear in her native Jalisco in February, which has been turned off by the pandemic, sources say ESPN KNOCKOUT.
The announcement of the international boxer’s future is expected in the coming days as progress is strong for both February and May., but they would be destined for American soil, where conditions, under certain measures, have allowed for more boxing events with the public.
Canelo Álvarez has not fought in Mexico since 2011, the year he did it twice and as the World Boxing Council Superwelter champion, first defeating British Ryan Rhodes in his first defense at the VFG Arena in Jalisco in June and then with his third defense against Puerto Rican Kermit Cintrón for November at the Monumental Plaza de Bulls Mexico in the capital. With the Mexican Álvarez’s high salaries, his return home has become increasingly complicated, but since he became a free agent a few months ago, he has been willing to make sacrifices in the economic part to make the dream of returning to the territory come true. to make. tricolor; However, now the circumstances of the pandemic have not allowed it and will not hold on to anything that will turn out to be counterproductive.
Avni Yildirim, 29, with 21 wins, including 12 by knockout, in exchange for only two defeats, is the mandatory challenger for the World Boxing Council. In order for Canelo to challenge Callum Smith for the vacant 168-pound scepter, they had to compensate Yildirim and accept that he must expose him within a period of no more than 90 days and that he would therefore be his rival for February .
With that in mind and if all goes well, next year’s fight will come in May, again on US soil, and Billy Joe Saunders continues to lead the way in a list that also includes Caleb Plant and Gennadiy Golovkin, all high caliber rivals. for the future of the Mexican, considered by many to be the best pound-for-pound hunter in the world.