{"id":187864,"date":"2025-06-16T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187864\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T02:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T02:32:08","slug":"canelo-sets-his-sights-on-one-man-after-terence-crawford-i-must-prove-im-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187864\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Sets His Sights On One Man After Terence Crawford: “I Must Prove I’m The Best”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canelo<\/a> Alvarez is just months away from his monumental showdown with Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old from Guadalajara, Mexico will lock horns with his fellow pound-for-pound star on Saturday September 13 at an undisclosed venue in Las Vegas<\/a>, Nevada.<\/p>\n

Canelo reclaimed the undisputed super-middleweight championship with a points victory over former IBF champion William Scull<\/a> at the beginning of last month, becoming the first fighter in boxing history to accomplish this exceptional feat.<\/p>\n

The Mexican icon initially captured the undisputed championship at 168lbs when he defeated Caleb Plant in 2021 before going on to make a handful of successful defences against the likes of Gennady Golovkin, Jaime Munguia and Jermell Charlo amongst others.<\/p>\n

As he prepares for one of the biggest nights of his professional career, Canelo is already targeting a showdown with another highly rated fighter after he shares the ring with Crawford later this year.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Ring Magazine<\/a>, Canelo expressed an interest in facing former undisputed light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol, who handed the Mexican superstar the second defeat of his career several years ago.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI hope I have the opportunity to have the rematch with Bivol, that\u2019s the only fight at 175 I would really take.<\/p>\n

I want to tell myself \u2018Hey, you learned something from that fight\u2019, what things you don\u2019t need to do again. I have that thing in myself which says \u2018Hey, you need to show that you\u2019re a better fighter than him\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bivol defeated Canelo via unanimous decision to keep a hold of his WBA light-heavyweight title<\/a> when the pair clashed at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas back in May of 2022.<\/p>\n

The Russian star would go on to capture the undisputed light-heavyweight crown earlier this year when he defeated rival Artur Beterbiev in their rematch. A trilogy showdown between the Russian stars is set to take place later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez is just months away from his monumental showdown with Terence Crawford. The 34-year-old from Guadalajara, Mexico…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-187864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114690703014723625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}