Mike Coppinger
Canelo Alvarez plans to meet Jack Paul in Las Vegas on May 3, a deal was reached and officially announced. But in an amazing development, Alvarez changed the course and instead completed four trades with Riyadh season.
Saudi Arabia General Entertainment Director Turki Alalshikh announced a deal with boxing team top star Alvarez on Thursday night, effectively killing Paul’s novelty Fighting, expected to land on Netflix. Now, Canelo will fight for the first time in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
Alvarez Answered Alalshikh’s announcement On social media: “Let’s go brothers.”
Sources said Alalshikh told Alvarez that he would be lucrative if he had a planned battle with Paul, who had previously agreed to a two-thirds deal with Riyadh season. Sources said Alvarez said he did not want to fight YouTuber, but he needed to fight in May.
Alvarez and Alalshikh quickly ended the deal and added a fourth fight, shocking the boxing world.
“Canelo only fights real warriors,” Alalshikh told ESPN.
Paul’s company is the most valuable promotion, criticizing Alvarez’s decision in a statement Friday.
The promotion said: “On the Cinco de Mayo weekend in Las Vegas, the MVP was deeply involved in the sensational battle between Jack Paul and Canelo Alvarez during negotiations…disappointing It is, to see how this situation develops. “The MVP operates with integrity, transparency and respect for the sport, its athletes and fans. Unfortunately, not everyone in the boxing world has these values. ”
Sources say the first battle of the deal will be held on Sunday morning, May 4, to accommodate the best broadcast for Alvarez on Saturday night, May 3, and Saturday night, May 3 at Cinco de Mayo Weekend. Sources said that the two opponents considered were Jermall Charlo and Bruno Surace.
Charlotte’s twin brother Jermell was knocked out in a decision to stand out for Alvarez in September 2023. Surace won the seventh round KO of former champion Jaime Munguia in December in ESPN’s annual frustration.
The May round will serve as a mediation with Terence Crawford at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on September 13. ESPN has previously reported that Alvarez’s 168-pound title battle against Crawford, an unbeaten American who will lift two weight classes from 154 pounds .
Crawford, 37, is an ESPN 2-pound boxer.
Crawford posted on X “I was in Canelo in September and shocked the world in Riyadh season” in response to Alalshikh’s announcement of Alvarez’s deal.
Crawford (41-0, 31 KO) is the former undisputed middleweight champion, with Errol Spence Jr. in his career best performance in July 2023 The ninth round of TKO. He fought only one fight with 154 pounds, the champion of the victory over Islamic Medrimov in the Riyadh season in Los Angeles in August.
Alvarez, 34, is ESPN’s fifth-pound boxer and currently has WBA, WBC and IBF super middleweight champions. He is a four-pointer champion, beating Munguia and Edgar Berlanga in 2024.
With Alvarez’s 2025 schedule set, his 2026 campaign is also planned.
The third battle of his deal is scheduled for February 2026 in Riyadh, with a choice on the table: Sources say: A rematch with Dmitry Bivol avenged two career failures One (the other is one of the 2023 matches against Floyd Mayweather); Hamzah Sheeraz, who challenged Carlos Adames for the WBC middleweight title on February 22; Chris Jr. Chris Eubank Jr. is the middleweight contender for the son of a British star boxer.
Sources said the fourth battle for the deal is scheduled to be held in Riyadh in October 2026. Alvarez (62-2-2, 39 KO) never competed outside North America.
It seems he will fight again in Las Vegas as he met Paul with an 11-1 boxer who became a social media-style boxer. Paul, 28, is a boxing sport and one of the best attractions in boxing. His battle with Mike Tyson, 58, Paul won the victory through eight rounds of decisions, hitting 64 million concurrent peaks on Netflix.
Netflix plans to play the second big event involving Paul, this time not only against legal boxers at his peak, but also at the highest level in the sport. The battle for Alvarez-Paul is scheduled to be played at 200 pounds and will be held at T-Mobile Arena.
Earlier in the day, Eddie Hearn, a former salesman for Alvarez, said Canelo reached a deal with Paul. Paul implicitly posted on X that he was “The A side of every battle I’ve ever participated, which didn’t change that fight” suggests a fight with Alvarez on the boxing surface.
Alvarez is the 168-pound unified champion and the 175-pound champion. He has exceeded 1 million pay-per-view purchases, including twice in the legendary trilogy with Gennadiy Golovkin.
