Just yesterday was the same Saul El Canelo Alvarez which exploded the level of expectation of boxing fans by announcing on their social media that it would soon bring them important news. However, this Wednesday the winner was the specialist journalist Mike Coppinger.
According to him, sources told him Athletic that the tapatío will be returning to the quadrilaterals, and debuting so far in 2021, on February 27 after reaching an agreement with MatchRoom box, The promoter of Eddie Hearn, To face the Turk Avni Yildirim.
The fight, in which he will expose the super middleweight belts of the World Boxing Association and the World Boxing Council, will be brought back to the world through the DAZN chain, except in Mexico, and will take place in Hard Rock Miami Stadium.
According to sources @Athletic Canelo Alvarez has reached an agreement with Matchroom Boxing to defend the Feb. 27 middleweight title against Avni Yildirim at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. The event will be played at DAZN worldwide (except in Mexico)
– Mike Coppinger (@MikeCoppinger)
January 20, 2021
It is then confirmed that there will be no fighting in Guadalajara, a possibility with which Canelo Alvarez had been enthusiastic at the end of the year, transferring this feeling to all his fans tapatíos, as the health conditions are not given for this to happen, when it seeks to enter a limited number of spectators.
Yildirim represents the only mandatory hurdle that Canelo has before he can fully launch the goal he set for this year: to be a unified champion in the 168 pounds, for which he will have to beat Billy Joe Saunders, WBO Champion, i Caleb plant, Owner of the FIB title.