Canelo Alvarez next fight: Mexican superstar looks at champion Caleb Plant to be undisputed

After the defeat Billy Joe Saunders led by TKO on Saturday night In Arlington, Texas, Canelo Alvarez now has three of the four recognized world championships in the super middleweight division. This seems to leave only one chance for Alvarez’s next fight: to join the Caleb Plant IBF champion.

After the victory, Canelo was asked if Plant was really the next man.

“That’s the plan,” Alvarez said in the ring. “That’s the plan, to go look for the belt. They’re coming, man. I’m looking for the belt. I hope to make that fight easy and give that fight to the fans.”

This reflects what Alvarez told CBS Sports before the fight.

“My personal goal is to put the titles together at 168 pounds,” Alvarez said. “Caleb Plant is another champion and hopefully we can carry out that fight. We don’t know [next] the goal right now. Then we don’t know what will happen. I want to make history and that’s what we’re doing right now. “

The plant has won 21-0 and has been a huge star in recent years, while it’s impressive for achieving strong TV ratings, even if it doesn’t have to face top-level competition. Andy Ruiz beat Chris Arreola on the pay-per-view show, with Plant stating that he was hopeful the fight with Alvarez would come in the fall.

“The plan is for September,” Plant said. “So you know, hopefully we can work it all out, and we’ll give fans the undisputed first middleweight super champion of all time, and you know, everyone can see those belts around me.”

Demetrius Andrade attended wearing a shirt that said “Canelo and Billy are afraid to fight Joe Boo Boo”. Alvarez sparked the idea of ​​confronting Andrade in a media call this week for past fights.

“He’s not really fighting anyone, he’s not fighting anyone and he’s also boring, very boring,” Alvarez said. “He may be a good fighter, but he’s a boring fighter, and at the end of the day, when there’s a boring fight, people will blame me. I like the fights in action so people can enjoy a good show. That’s very important to me. suppose one, because he has not fought against anyone. “

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Alvarez a fighter has WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo, who showed interest in the fight, says FightHub the fight that was going to happen in February was Charlo or Plant, “” Fortunately, why not? You have to fight with one of them [Charlo and Plant]. We don’t know. The only thing I can say is that my goal is to win 168-pound belts and then let’s see what comes next. ”

Eventually, a return to the lightweight division could be Alvarez’s future, though not likely in his next fight. After jumping to the level and winning the WBO title with Sergey Kovalev’s wonderful knockout, it looked like Alvarez had left a light weight behind. However, in recent months, it has been suggested that a fight with WBC and IBF lightweight champion Artur Beterbiev could have taken place on the road.

In March, Beterbiev expressed his interest in the fight, “Canelo is a nice boxer, I like him. He won’t be an obstacle if he has an offer to the ring with him. I would gladly fight him.”