Jermell Charlo: record, next fight and profile →
Canelo Alvarez will fight at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for the eighth time in the past seven years when he meets Jermell Charlo in another 12-round main event September 30.
Canelo Alvarez beat Callum Smith, Avni Yildirim, Billy Joe Saunders, and Caleb Plant to become the undisputed super middleweight champion in a four-fight stretch from December 2020 to November 2021.
World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman is looking forward to the upcoming fight between undisputed super middleweight champion Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez and challenger Jermell Charlo.
Canelo Alvarez is adamant about reclaiming his crown and throne as boxing’s best fighter. After winning the undisputed super middleweight title in 2021, Alvarez (59-2-2, 39 KOs) has had a three-fight stretch featuring a loss to Dmitry Bivol at light heavyweight and workman-like unanimous decision wins against Gennadiy Golovkin and John Ryder.
Like most insiders and fans of the sport, Brian Mendoza is very interested in the upcoming Canelo Alvarez-Jermell Charlo showdown.
Oscar De La Hoya has offered a word of advice to Jermell Charlo ahead of his big bout with Canelo Alvarez. Take a hard look at the Dmitry Bivol template. Bivol, the WBA light heavyweight titlist, upset oddsmakers last year, when he unanimously outpointed Alvarez, the
Jermell Charlo answered Brian Custer’s discomforting question as honestly as he could. As much as he wants to see his long-inactive twin brother “bounce back,” the undisputed 154-pound champion couldn’t say with any certainty whether that will happen. Jermall Charlo is undefeated and still owns the WBC middleweight title, but the 33-year-old Houston native hasn’t fought since June 2021 and apparently passed on a shot at challenging Canelo
Canelo Alvarez admits it was not easy for him to come to terms with the only defeat he has suffered in the ring in nearly a decade. The current undisputed champion of the 168-pound division saw his momentum stymied in May 2022, when he went up to light heavyweight to challenge one of the division’s titlists in Dmitry Bivol.
Jermell Charlo believes that a potential win against Canelo Alvarez on Sept. 30 will carry more weight on boxing’s pound-for-pound list than Terence Crawford's recent victory over Errol Spence Jr.
Junior middleweight contender Tim Tszyu believes his upcoming fight with Brian Mendoza should have been a unification encounter. Both men are interim-champions, with Tszyu holding the WBO strap and Mendoza having the WBC's version.