Canelo Alvarez vs. Jake Paul is the struggle no one anticipated. It’s additionally the struggle no one requested for.
In response to a report from Mike Coppinger of ESPN, Alvarez and ‘The Downside Baby’ are finalizing a deal for a cruiserweight struggle anticipated to go down on Might 3 at T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas. The struggle will reportedly air stay on Netflix, the identical streaming service that introduced us Paul’s lackluster conflict with former heavyweight king ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson in November.
Paul defeated Tyson through unanimous resolution after eight rounds of glorified sparring.
Emanating from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Paul vs. Tyson introduced in $18.1 million on the gate and was watched by as many as 64 million concurrent streams on Netflix. It’s no shock that the streaming large desires to remain within the Jake Paul enterprise and there’s no greater opponent on the market for the YouTube star than the multi-time world champion out of Mexico.
Canelo Alvarez nonetheless rumored for a Mexican Independence Day conflict with Terence Crawford
This isn’t the one big-money struggle on the docket for Canelo Alvarez in 2025. Just some quick days in the past, information broke {that a} long-awaited conflict between ‘Canelito’ and Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford was within the works for this September at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
It stays to be seen if his struggle with Paul has any influence on his plans to struggle Crawford on Mexican Independence Day in a Riyadh Season occasion.
“Once I’m carried out with boxing [at the top level)], why not?” Alvarez informed The Full Ship Podcast in November when requested about the potential of preventing Paul. “Sure, perhaps. I believe it’s good as a result of it attracts followers who don’t usually watch boxing. They know Jake Paul, however they don’t know something about boxing.”
In September, Alvarez retained the unified tremendous middleweight world title through a dominant unanimous resolution victory over Edgar Berlanga. Total, Alvarez is 62-2-2 with 39 of his wins coming by the use of KO/TKO.
Paul is 11-1 together with his lone loss coming through a cut up resolution in opposition to Tommy Fury in February 2023.
