On Saturday, May 4, World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (50-1-2, 34 KO’s), will defend his belts against Daniel “Miracle Man” Jacobs (35-2, 29 KO’s), who holds the IBF's world title, in a high stakes unification.
The showdown takes place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, during the “Cinco de Mayo” weekend festivities.
Jacobs from Brooklyn, New York is preparing like never before. At 31 years old and despite having been out of the sport for 19 months due to suffering a form of bone cancer that he bravely defeated, Jacobs has been offering up wins and dishing out impressive performances.
Jacobs is very pleased with his ongoing fight, which is only a few short weeks away.
“This is the opportunity I’ve been waiting for. The opportunity to achieve greatness within the ring. It’s been an excellent training camp, I’m sure I can beat Canelo to establish myself as the best middleweight in the world, ” stressed Jacobs.
The unification will be broadcast live and exclusively by the streaming service DAZN
Canelo is the better favorite and coming two impressive wins, a majority decision of Gennady Golovkin and a three round destruction of Rocky Fielding at the super middleweight limit of 168.
Eddie Hearn, who promotes Jacobs, feeling confident that his boxer will pull off the big upset.
"I believe so. Canelo has got the power of the sport behind him if you like. You know, but Daniel Jacobs, now this is his moment and he really believes he's going to win; we believe he's going to win," Hearn told Sporting News.
"I think it’s going to be a brilliant fight. Yeah, unification fight in the middleweight division. I think there is a lot of support for Daniel Jacobs, obviously Canelo has a huge fan base as well, but we really believe that Daniel Jacobs can win the fight on May 4."
