The venue of the fight will be the hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida although at the time the idea was that it was in Mexico
The four-time world champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (54-1-2, 36 Ko s) made official his return to the ring for next February 27 to make the obligatory defense of the World Boxing Council Supermediate Championship against the obligatory scorer Avni Yildirim (21-2, 12 Ko s), a 28-year-old Turk who came very close to tightening- was this same crown precisely in his most recent fight, when he fell controversially before Anthony Dirrell.
The headquarters of the fight, despite the intentions of ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and his manager and coach, Eddy Reynoso, to do so in Mexican territory, will finally be in a building on American soil. It was thought to be Dallas, San Antonio or Houston in Texas, but Hard Rock Stadium appeared in Miami, Florida, as the confirmed venue.
It will be the first of three or four battles planned by ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and his team for this 2021, having become free agents in the last quarter of 2020. For the weekend of May 5 is planned, as long as and there are no setbacks against Yildirim, a new battle for Saul, tentatively against Billy Joe Saunders.
‘Canelo’, who was recognized as a boxer of the year 2020 by the World Boxing Association and the World Boxing Council, has just defeated with authority on December 19 the British Callum Smith, who was defeated by unanimous decision in front of 11,500 fans at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
This will be the eighteenth championship fight for the Mexican wrestler, who became in 2019 the fourth tricolor boxer to have won world titles in four different categories, in the band of characters like Erik ‘Terrible’ Morales, Juan Manuel ‘Dynamite’ Márquez and Jorge ‘Travieso’ Arce. He later joined the select list of Leo ‘The Famous Earthquake’ Santa Cruz.
Yildirim will hold his second championship fight after falling controversially to Anthony Dirrell in February 2019 over the vacant CMB Supermediate weight belt. The Turk has not climbed into the ring since then waiting for the opportunity. In another high-caliber battle for the Turk, against Chris Eubank for the International Boxing Organization Championship, he was knocked out in three rounds.