It seems Canelo Alvarez could fight Billy Joe Saunders on May 2 after all. As fans know, both Saunders, the reigning WBO super-middleweight champion, and Callum Smith, the current WBA ruler at 168 pounds, last week turned down offers to fight Canelo.
Oscar De La Hoya has given Matchroom Sport and their super middleweight champions Billy Joe Saunders and Callum Smith a deadline of Monday to agree to the deal offered to them for a May 2 fight against Canelo Alvarez or else he’s moving on.
Oscar De La Hoya says Callum Smith turned down Golden Boy Promotions’ offer made to him to face Saul Canelo Alvarez on May 2 in his next fight on DAZN.
Not so fast. Though reports cane out of Japan last week saying a deal had been reached for superstar Canelo Alvarez to fight Ryoto Murata in Murata’s home country of Japan, on May 23, this is not the case.
Fight fans have been reading, or hearing, for some time now how Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez might face Japanese warrior Ryota Murata next (and not Billy Joe Saunders or Callum Smith, these being the other two fighters being seriously considered by Canelo and his team).
Ryota Murata has replaced Billy Joe Saunders as the likely opponent for Saul Canelo Alvarez to fight next on May 2 on DAZN in Japan.
Billy Joe Saunders is seemingly out of the running for the May 2 fight against WBA ‘regular’ super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez fight.
WBO super middleweight Billy Joe Saunders is in the dark about where the rumors about him fighting Canelo Alvarez next originated from.
Oscar De La Hoya is excited at what he saw from Jaime Munguia (35-0, 28 KOs) with his 11th round technical knockout win over war-horse Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan (30-4, 21 KOs) last Saturday night in his debut.
Superstar Canelo Alvarez will fight on May 2, over the big Cinco de Mayo celebratory weekend, but we don’t yet know who Canelo’s opponent will be, nor do we know the venue of the fight.