There has been a good deal of speculation around Canelo’s next choice of. Note: This will be updated constantly with changes and additions. Álvarez, Boxing’s Undisputed King, Is a Target for Fighters and Promoters Would-be foes and matchmakers see the 168-pound champion as a path to a career payday. Canelo Alvarez will reportedly attempt to win a world title in a fifth weight class in his next fight in May 2022. He now looks to face a former top pound-for-pound fighter to further cement his place as one of the new members of boxing's elite talents.īelow is a running list of boxing main events for 2023. to claim undisputed status at 135 pounds and again dominated Kambosos in the rematch. Taylor will still head to Dublin on May 20, however, with confirmation that she would defend her undisputed super lightweight championship against Chantelle Cameron.Īnother undisputed champion will be in action on May 20, with lightweight king Devin Haney defending his title against former unified champion Vasiliy Lomachenko. Their first meeting was a Fight of the Year effort in front of a wild crowd in Madison Square Garden, making it the biggest - and arguably most important - fight in the history of women's boxing. The schedule also took a hit with the announcement that the planned rematch between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano on May 20 in Dublin had been postponed due to a Serrano injury. Subscribe to Morning Kombat with Luke Thomas and Brian Campbell for the best analysis and in-depth news.
That fight will now take place on July 25 in Japan.Ĭan't get enough boxing and MMA? Get the latest in the world of combat sports from two of the best in the business. Unfortunately, Inoue suffered an injury and the fight has been postponed. Ryder takes place in Guadalajara, Mexico, marking Alvarez's first fight in his home country since 2011.Ī major pound-for-pound showdown was set for May 7, with former undisputed bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue moving up to super bantamweight to challenge WBC and WBO super bantamweight champion Stephen Fulton. Alvarez is coming off a September win over Gennady Golovkin, which was his first title defense since becoming undisputed champion.Īlvarez vs.
That put him in line as Alvarez's mandatory challenger, with the WBO currently having priority in the rotation of other mandatories from other sanctioning bodies. But now it looks like he will be able to. Following a dominant points win over Gennadiy Golovkin in September, the Mexican revealed that he needed to tend to the above injury and was unsure about when he would be back in the ring. In his most recent outing, he stopped Zach Parker to win the WBO interim super middleweight title. Canelo Alvarez is looking to return next May once he has successfully recovered from surgery on his right wrist. Ryder is currently riding a four-fight winning streak. The next major fight of the year goes down on May 6 when undisputed super middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez returns to action against mandatory challenger John Ryder.
After a thrilling start to 2023 featuring multiple high-level entries into the Fight of the Year discussion, but without many of the biggest names of the sport in action, the boxing schedule really picked up when Gervonta Davis knocked out Ryan Garcia in an April 22 megafight.
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