The pound-for-pound king returns this Saturday on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas, Nevada, as undisputed tremendous middleweight champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (57-1-2, 39 KOs) returns to mild heavyweight to tackle undefeated WBA Champion Dmitry Bivol (19-0, 11 KOs) for his mild heavyweight title.
Canelo and Bivol Collide in Star-Studded Battle of Champions
Dmitry Bivol is the longest reigning champion within the 175 lbs. division, having gained the WBA strap in 2017. Since then, Bivol has been promoted to WBA tremendous champion in October 2019.
Bivol had a profitable 12 months in 2021, beating Craig Richards in Could by unanimous determination and adopted it up with a unanimous determination win towards Umar Salamov in December.
Bivol is commonly thought to be probably the most technically gifted boxer within the 175 lbs. division, as many followers previous to the Canelo struggle being signed, have been awaiting the potential showdown between Bivol and fellow undefeated Russian champion, WBC and IBF unified champion Artur Beterbiev.
With a powerful jab second solely behind probably Gennady Golovkin’s, elite ring generalship, respectable energy, and within the prime of his profession, Bivol isn’t any straightforward activity for any fighter come struggle evening.
Nevertheless, Bivol has by no means got here throughout an opponent like Canelo Alvarez. The Mexican champion is at the moment using an eight struggle win streak that began in his rematch towards Golovkin again in 2018, and has not tasted defeat since 2013 towards Floyd Mayweather.
Throughout that point, Canelo has amassed an all time document, defeating massive names similar to Miguel Cotto, Gennady Golovkin, Amir Khan, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, Daniel Jacobs, Sergey Kovalev, Callum Smith, Billy Joe Saunders, and Caleb Plant.
All in a span of 4 divisions, amassing a number of titles in all 4 divisions, and even turning into the primary to grow to be undisputed tremendous middleweight champion, in addition to the primary ever Mexican born undisputed champion, and is just one of six boxers to ever unify within the present 4 belt period.
Canelo’s lone look at mild heavyweight towards Sergey Kovalev resulted in an eleventh spherical vicious knockout that gained him the WBO title now held by Joe Smith Jr. Many felt Canelo was risking an excessive amount of leaping to 175 lbs. after campaigning at 154, 160, and 168 lbs., as he was visibly the smaller man, however the energy carried over to the load and proved no consolation zone challenge was in query for the champion.
Now, along with his second look at 175 lbs., Canelo will look handy the primary loss to the fourth straight undefeated opponent Alvarez has confronted, as he and Bivol look to placed on a present this Saturday.
The PPV occasion will likely be aired solely on DAZN with coverage beginning at 8PM ET/ 5PM PT.
Essential Picture:Embed from Getty Images
