He emerged victorious in a firefight with Dmitry Kudryashov before claiming his world title against Michal Cieslak. Besides, Eddie Hearn‘s Matchroom Promotions have put on Dmitry Bivol (175 lbs champion) and Gennady Golovkin trilogy as a two-fight deal for the Mexican P4Pstar. Canelo Alvarez has bulked up in new training camp photos as he prepares to take on Dmitry Bivol on Saturday night. The Canelo vs. Bivol main card will air on DAZN, which will show the fight via a special pay-per-view format. Bivol also insists he wants to run it back! I've absolutely adored Silva's run in boxing this year. Buatsi is 15-0, with 13 wins inside the distance and he is on a run of 10 consecutive KOs heading into what could be the most significant test of his career to date. Pound-for-pound superstar Canelo is already the undisputed champion at super-middleweight, and has already claimed earlier career titles in middleweight and super-welterweight. The superstar has become one of the biggest names on the planet. This fight was one of the biggest boxing clashes of modern times, and the winner was set to create history by becoming the first man to hold all the 168-pound titles.
Canelo did notable work to the body in this fight, which may have been the biggest difference maker, apart from the fact that Plant just didn’t seem able to hurt or even really deter Alvarez much at all. Haney’s no big talker, but it may be interesting to see if Kambosos pushes his buttons. Canelo completed unifying the major titles at super-middleweight in 2021. He defeated Britain’s Callum Smith in December 2020 to claim the WBC and WBA titles, then stopped another Briton Billy Joe Saunders in May 2021 to add the WBO title. Despite struggling to find his range against the crafty Billy Joe Saunders, the Guadalajara native eventually caught up with the WBO Champion. In May, Canelo Alvarez challenged Brit star, Billy Joe Saunders for his WBO super-middleweight belt. Meanwhile, Billy Joe Saunders could dominate Alvarez for a brief period in the in-ring battle. His southpaw stance proved problematic for Alvarez until the Mexican star offered his best show.
The Ukrainian southpaw left the 200lb division as undisputed champion and moved up to heavyweight, unifying the division in just his third fight. After defending his title with a TKO4 against Kalvin Henderson, WBA super middleweight champion David Morrell declared his intention to face the best at 168-pounds. “It’s David Benavidez, it’s Caleb Plant, it’s Anthony Dirrell, it’s whoever wants to get in the ring with me,” said Morrell. Both fighters are now in the ring! All the other fighters on this list would likely be respectful opponents grateful for the opportunity. Both fighters seem eager to meet each other in the ring to settle the score. Following the win, Alvarez became the WBC, WBA, WBO, and Ring super middleweight belts. MORE: Canelo Alvarez taking potential trilogy fight vs. It was just the beginning of his success line, which touched new heights in 2021. That said, his latest fight against Caleb Plant was just a portion of the glory Alvarez relished throughout the year. That said, WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury was also a part of the storyline in which he backed Saunders to maul Alvarez. Before he could make a second defense of his title, Benavidez was suspended four months and stripped of his belt after testing positive for cocaine in 2018. While he admits he made a mistake, Benavidez also points to inconsistent responses by the WBC.
Having claimed the WBA and WBC titles the previous year in a contest against Callum Smith, Canelo entered 2021 with one goal in mind - to win the other two belts. His only reverse in eight outings since was a disputed points defeat to Callum Smith in the latter’s final bout before facing Canelo. Canelo appears very comfortable campaigning at two weights simultaneously right now and, if he wants to return to light-heavyweight after facing Golovkin again, then there are some intriguing match-ups to be made from Britain’s 175-pound division. If I didn’t believe I could win, you wouldn’t have these cameras in front of my face right now,” Plant said. However, after a hard-fought battle, Plant claimed a win, thus making $150,000 for this fight. However, the unified light heavyweight king is hittable. His lone light heavyweight fight was an 11th-round KO of Sergey Kovalev in a November 2019 title bout.