canelo Álvarez has plans to fight in this 2021 everything he could not do in 2020, where at least he was given the pleasure of closing the year with a championship win ahead Callum Smith last December 19 at the Alamodome in Sant Antoni, which crowned him world super middleweight champion of the AMB and the CMB.
Alvarez has already warned that at least he wants to do three fights 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 lands. But he is also already negotiating a fight for the traditional weekend of May 5, perhaps the date that has hurt him the most last year.
was Eddie Hearnpromoter of MatchRoom box, The one in charge of advancing that talks already exist with Billy Joe Saunders, Who has just successfully defended his World Boxing Organization super middleweight belt by unanimously defeating Martin Murray, who days later would announce his retirement.
“We are now in talks with Eddy Reynoso and his team to do the fight with Yildirim, which is the immediate mandatory, and then the fight with Billy Joe Saunders in May.”, Acknowledged the promoter in dialogue with AK and Barak Show.
This fight would give beginning to the plan of the tapestry of becoming linear champion of the 168 pounds, reason why to secure the victory it would be later to face Caleb plant, Owner of the FIB title, in the final months of the year.