Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez Established To Problem Ilunga Makabu For WBC Cruiserweight Title In Bid To Conquer A Fifth Division

Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez will challenge WBC cruiserweight champion Ilunga Makabu in a beautiful endeavor to develop into a five-division titleholder.

The WBC authorized his request to go up two divisions into a new weight classification for a shot at the title in Might or June at their once-a-year conference on Tuesday night time.

“The WBC has accepted unanimously Canelo to struggle for the WBC cruiserweight championship of the world,” president Mauricio Sulaiman explained.

“This is a shock to me but I’m guaranteed he will proceed to make history.”

Canelo has enjoyed a extraordinary calendar year, dethroning a few unbeaten tremendous-middleweight champions (Callum Smith, Billy Joe Saunders and Caleb Plant) to become undisputed.

The Mexican is feted as the world’s pound-for-pound No 1 fighter on the back again of that accomplishment.

He won his first entire world title at super-welterweight, then turned set up at middleweight following two classic fights with Gennadiy Golovkin.

He boldly moved up to mild-heavyweight (the best he has been so much) and knocked out the fearsome Sergey Kovalev to assert his WBO title.

But now he will venture even even further, into the cruiserweight division, the remaining class before heavyweight.

The reigning WBC winner, Makabu, was knocked out by Tony Bellew at Goodison Park in 2016 as the Liverpool community became a planet champion for the very first time.

But Makabu has since impressively rebuilt by beating Dmitry Kudryashov and Alexei Papin on absent turf in Russia.

Makabu’s WBC gold is also getting focused by Richard Riakporhe, who fights for the ‘silver’ belt versus Olanrewaju Durodola on Saturday, stay on Sky Athletics.

“Absolutely,” Sulaiman instructed Sky Sports about Riakporhe’s hopes ahead of hearing Canelo’s ask for.

“When you grow to be a silver winner it gets you proper there in the line.”

Sky Sports Boxing routine

November 20 – BOXXER in London
Richard Riakporhe vs Olanrewaju Durodola
Florian Marku vs Jorick Luisetto
Hosea Burton vs Dan Azeez – British mild-heavyweight title
Mikael Lawal

November 20 – Top Rank in Las Vegas
Terence Crawford vs Shawn Porter – WBO welterweight title

December 11 – BOXXER in Cardiff
Chris Eubank Jr vs Liam Williams
Claressa Shields vs Ema Kozin

December 11 – Major Rank in New York
Vasiliy Lomachenko vs Richard Commey
Jared Anderson vs Oleksandr Teslenko
Nico Ali Walsh
Xander Zayas

December 17 – Major Rank in Montreal
Artur Beterbiev vs Marcus Browne – IBF and WBC light-weight-heavyweight titles

February 26 – Best Rank in Glasgow
Josh Taylor vs Jack Catterall – undisputed super-light-weight title