Matchroom Boxing has actually revealed that Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will protect his indisputable very middleweight champion against John Ryder in Jalisco, Mexico on May sixth, continuing the custom of boxing’s greatest super stars battling on Cinco De Mayo weekend. After a difficult 2022, where Alvarez’s effort to return to light heavyweight for a 2nd world title win at 175 pounds lost, the Mexican fighter went back to very middleweight for his next bout, a trilogy bout with competitor Gennady Golovkin, handling the consentaneous choice win. Ryder, on the other hand, is making his 2nd quote for a world title after losing a choice to then-WBA very middleweight champ Callum Smith in November 2019. Alvarez has actually not battled in Mexico considering that 2011 and has actually exposed that a rematch with Dmitry Bivol stays among his main targets for completion of the 2023 calendar.
