Good action potential, good matchup, winner fights WBO titlist Stephen Fulton Jr in further unification in September. The action will take place at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, but unlike the events we've seen in the United Kingdom, 15,000 fans are expected to be in attendance. After successive weeks of dramatic boxing action, in which we've seen a shock defeat for Josh Warrington, while Josh Kelly lost his unbeaten record to David Avanesyan, the action continues this weekend. Just two months after his scintillating unanimous decision win over Britain's Callum Smith, Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez returns to the ring this weekend to take on WBC mandatory challenger Avni Yildrim. Yildrim was put down in the opening round, before being emphatically stopped in the third. The match-up was prevented in 2020 due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, before Saunders turned down a date last September, insisting he could adequately train for the bout.
As the rounds wore on, Canelo was unable to break down his opponent and found himself in a real fight by the middle rounds. Joshua will be to the forefront, as he was in 2017. AJ will look to add New Zealander Joseph Parker’s WBO belt to his WBA, IBF and IBO titles in an eminently winnable unification fight late this April or early in May. If so, Saunders will look for another route to the big time. A fight between Billy Joe Saunders and Canelo Alvarez is one boxing fans have been touting for a number of years. Billy Joe Saunders is hoping to leap onto that bandwagon following the brilliant out-classing of the big punching David Lemieux in Canada to keep his world middleweight title, therby signing off 2017 for British boxing in style. By then, assuming David Haye’s creaking body holds up, he and Tony Bellew will have returned to the 02 on May 5 for a rematch to determine which of them gets into the mega-bucks mix. However, should Canelo come through the challenge of Yildrim as expected, it appears as if the Brit will be next.
Arroyo originally was scheduled to challenge WBC flyweight champion Julio Cesar Martinez but Martinez withdrew from the bout Thursday because of a hand injury. His trainer Eddy Reynoso requested the WBC to sanction a fight between him and the WBC world champion at Cruiserweight Ilunga Makabu. The 29-year-old, who has been mandatory challenger for the WBC super middleweight title for two years, is now working under the world-class trainer Joel Diaz, who insists his fighter can be victorious. As we ring the first bell of the New Year there is no place for a British fighter in the first two major rankings of the top ten pound-for-pound boxers in the world. The fighter is Floyd Mayweather Jr., the son of two-time world heavyweight champion Gennady Golovkin. No, not even for three-belt world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, whose epic victory over the legendary Wladimir Klitschko packed Wembley to its 90,000 capacity and electrified the world.
No, you never do that, especially against Canelo Alvarez, and that’s crazy. Golovkin (41-1-1, 36 KOs) will first meet Ryota Murata in a rescheduled 160-pound title unification in the spring in Tokyo, and, like Alvarez, will have to emerge victorious to keep the third fight intact. Canelo Alvarez, right, and Gennady Golovkin trade punches during a middleweight title boxing match, Saturday, Sept. As will Fury, DeGale, Brook and Amir Khan, who is vowing to turn his back on reality shows and celebrity appearances to focus on three fights this year culminating in a shot at his third world title. All together, we will live this joy and this triumph. There were plenty of other boxers who shined brightly as well, claiming titles and putting on epic performances that will be rewatched for years to come. The Mexican, who reportedly already has a subsequent bout with Billy Joe Saunders penned in for May, will put his WBA, WBC and Ring super middleweight titles on the line. TalkSPORT's boxing editor Michael Benson has since tweeted: 'Eddie Hearn has stated Canelo vs Billy Joe Saunders could be officially announced with both face-to-face in the ring immediately after Canelo vs Avni Yildirim next weekend, so long as he wins and comes through unscathed.