{"id":268355,"date":"2025-07-17T04:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268355\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T04:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T04:08:09","slug":"canelo-wants-to-move-away-from-super-middleweight-division-to-face-one-man-after-terence-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268355\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Wants To Move Away From Super Middleweight Division To Face One Man After Terence Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez is gearing up for a monumental showdown with fellow pound-for-pound star Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old from Guadalajara, Mexico is set to make the first defence of his undisputed super-middleweight championship against \u2018Bud\u2019 Crawford on Saturday September 13 at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n

Canelo<\/a> began his second reign as undisputed champion at 168lbs on May 3 after he defeated former IBF super-middleweight champion William Scull in Riyadh. The Mexican great faced-off with Crawford for the first time moments after he was declared the winner against Scull.<\/p>\n

As he prepares for what could be one of the biggest fights of his career<\/a>, Canelo has set his sights on facing one man in particular after his showdown with \u2018Bud\u2019 in two months.<\/p>\n

When asked by The Ring Magazine<\/a> who there is left for him to face, Canelo admitted that he wants a rematch against Dmitry Bivol, after the Russian superstar handed him just 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 successfully defended his WBA world light-heavyweight title against Canelo in May 2022<\/a>, defeating the Mexican icon via unanimous decision at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

The Russian would go on to become the undisputed champion at 175lbs earlier this year as he outpointed rival Artur Beterbiev in their entertaining rematch on February 22. A trilogy bout between the duo is expected to take place during the early stages of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez is gearing up for a monumental showdown with fellow pound-for-pound star Terence Crawford. The 34-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-268355","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\/114866612029383050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268355","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=268355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}