Sep 17, 2022; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Canelo Alvarez (purple trunks) and Gennadiy Golovkin (white trunks) field throughout a brilliant middleweight championship bout at T-Cell Area. Obligatory Credit score: Joe Camporeale-Imagn Pictures A protracted-rumored battle between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford will happen Sept. 13 in Las Vegas and be broadcast by Netflix, it was confirmed Tuesday.
Monetary phrases weren’t launched, nor was the venue.
The promoters of the battle are of equal title worth.
Teaming up shall be Riyadh Season, the Saudi Arabian promotion that signed Alvarez to a four-fight contract earlier this yr, and UFC head Dana White, who shaped TKO Boxing in March. A pairing of Turki Alalshikh of Riyadh Season and White additionally had lengthy been rumored. Promoter Sela is a part of the partnership, too.
“Turki needs to make the largest fights the followers wish to see in boxing and that is proper up my alley,” White stated in a press release. “Are you kidding me that the primary boxing battle I’ll get to advertise is Canelo vs. Crawford? It is actually a as soon as in a lifetime battle.”
Alalshikh is the chairman of the Basic Leisure Authority of Saudi Arabia.
“Turki needs to make the largest fights that the followers wish to see in boxing and that is proper up my alley,” White stated. “Are you kidding me that the primary boxing battle I’ll get to advertise is Canelo vs. Crawford? It is actually a as soon as in a lifetime battle.”
The battle is for the undisputed tremendous middleweight championship.
Alvarez (63-2-2, 39 KOs) gained his most up-to-date battle final month, defeating William Scull in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Since 2013, he has misplaced simply as soon as however not at this weight class, dropping a lightweight heavyweight battle towards Dmitry Bivol in 2022.
Alvarez, from Mexico, turns 35 subsequent month.
Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs), a 37-year-old Nebraskan, is the unified welterweight champion and WBA junior middleweight champion.
The left-hander’s most up-to-date bout got here on Aug. 3, 2024, when he defeated Israil Madrimov for the WBA junior middleweight title.
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