Canelo-Bivol Light Heavyweight Title Fight To Land At T-Mobile Arena
SAN DIEGO - Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez will go back to Las Vegas on Cinco de Mayo weekend for the primary time in 3 years.
The 4-division champion and pound-for-pound king has settled on T-Mobile Arena as the house for his next fight as opposed to WBA mild heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol (19-zero, 11KOs). The bout will take vicinity live on DAZN Pay-Per-View, the sports streaming provider’s first occasion solely on that platform.
Alvarez (fifty seven-1-2, 39KOs) will appear at T-Mobile Arena for the 6th time in his career, having headlined the first actual boxing event at the venue in May 2016. His closing appearance on website online came in May 2019, when Alvarez outpointed Daniel Jacobs of their WBA/WBC/IBF middleweight name unification bout. Alvarez turned into still with Golden Boy Promotions at the time, whilst Jacobs became represented through Matchroom Boxing who takes the lead for the May 7 occasion.
“This is my first time selling Canelo in Las Vegas,” Eddie Hearn, Matchroom Sport chairman instructed BoxingScene.Com. “I’ve been on the alternative aspect (with Jacobs, and also having promoted Rocky Fielding who Alvarez beat through 1/3-round knockout in December 2018 at Madison Square Garden). Cinco de Mayo weekend, it’s going to be a big, large turnout.”
For Alvarez, it’s a second straight fight in Las Vegas. The Mexican icon from Guadalajara made records in his previous go to, becoming the game’s first-ever undisputed top notch middleweight champion following an 11th-round knockout of Caleb Plant closing November at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
The upcoming assignment for Bivol’s light heavyweight identify marks Alvarez’s 15th profession fight in Las Vegas, wherein he holds three of the 5 maximum-grossing events in boxing history.
Included many of the lot are his pair of middleweight championship fights with Gennadiy Golovkin (41-1-1, 36KOs), who is on the again-end of the 2-combat deal Alvarez signed with Matchroom and DAZN. Each in their fights passed off at T-Mobile, with their September 2017 meeting finishing in a surprisingly questionable twelve-spherical draw and with Alvarez claiming a majority choice and the WBA/WBC middleweight titles in the rematch.
Wins by means of Alvarez on May 7 and Golovkin in an April nine IBF/WBA middleweight name unification healthy with Ryota Murata (sixteen-2, 13KOs) in Saitama, Japan will installation the trilogy bout eyed for September 17. A place has now not yet been decided on for that fight; BoxingScene.Com has discovered that the deal lo land Canelo-Bivol at T-Mobile Arena changed into reached overdue Tuesday evening.
Bivol will fight in Las Vegas for just the second time in his career, although his tenth inside the United States. The 31-yr-antique Kyrgyzstan-born boxer—who has lived in St. Petersburg, Russia when you consider that age eleven but who trains in California—last fought in Las Vegas in June 2017, straight away previous his modern WBA light heavyweight title reign. The second came in a fourth-round knockout of Cedric Agnew, taking place to knock out Trent Broadhurst in the first-round in their November 2017 identify combat in Monte Carlo.
Seven identify defenses have observed for Bivol, consisting of a twelve-round choice win over Umar Salamov last December in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
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