Canelo Accepts Mbilli War His Body Cannot Sustain

Canelo Alvarez insisting that he will not run from Christian Mbilli sounds like a textbook case of whistling past the graveyard. He is promising to meet a younger, relentless pressure fighter in the trenches despite no longer possessing the stamina or punch output required to survive that kind of pace for 12 rounds.

Canelo and Mbilli will meet on October 31 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with Mbilli’s WBC super middleweight title at stake. The Riyadh Season event will be shown on DAZN PPV, although a specific venue has not yet been announced. The fight was moved from its original September 12 date.

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