Yesterday Saül Canelo Álvarez confirmed that the next February 27 will return to the ring to face Avni Yildirim, Compulsory combat of the World Boxing Council. However, after the announcement, the Mexican explained what will come in the 2021 for him and why he doesn’t want to face Mexicans.
The last fight he had on Tapatío against a compatriot happened the May 7, 2017 when it collided Julio César Chávez, To whom he beat the T-Mobil Arena in Las Vegas, United States. After this fight, the Guadalajara-born only faced one Kazakh, one American, two British and one Russian.
However, lately, Jaume Munguía i Gilberto Ramírez were names that danced to face canelo Álvarez. Anyway, at the time, it was Eddy Reynoso who said they do not want to face Mexicans, while Tapatío explained the reasons to TV Azteca.
“I represent Mexico and I don’t like fighting with Mexicans, I don’t see any sense in it. I see Jaume Munguía’s potential, but he still has some fights to reach these levels. I’m not closing to anything, but for now I wouldn’t like it. “, Expressed yesterday the current world champion of the 168 pounds.
And he added: “The goal of Eddy and me is to win all the titles and Eddy said ‘if we want all the titles we have to face it because if we don’t, they take the title from us so that someone else can look for it.’ it went well, we would do the fight in February and if all goes well, we are on our way to unification in the 168 pounds “. In turn he commented that all indicate that the May 8 will face Billy Joe Saunders, Owner of the OMB Supermediate World Title.