Promoter Eddie Hearn believes a rematch between Canelo Alvarez and Dmitry Bivol is feasible if WBA mild heavyweight champion Bivol wins his struggle towards IBF/WBC/WBO champ Artur Beterbiev on October twelfth.

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Hearn says “win or lose” the Beterbiev struggle, Bivol may face Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs) at 175 or 168. Apparently, Mike Coppinger of ESPN spoke with Canelo this week, and he stated he needs the Bivol (23-0, 12 KOs) rematch subsequent Might if he’s victorious towards Beterbiev. Canelo didn’t point out being inquisitive about preventing Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs), and it’s fairly apparent why.

Canelo misplaced a 12-round unanimous resolution to Dmitry Bivol in Might 2022, and it has bothered him ever since. Coppinger stated that Canelo blamed his defeat on having a hand damage, and never being bodily proper for the struggle.

Beterbiev may spoil the plans by knocking out Bivol and leaving Canelo with a much less interesting possibility of probably rematching Caleb Plant if he’s victorious tonight towards Trevor McCumby.

Canelo is defending his WBA, WBC, and WBO tremendous middleweight titles tonight towards Edgar Berlanga on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas.

“Canelo doesn’t have an enormous output anymore, and when he hurts somebody, he’s not frantically attempting to get them out of there,” stated Eddie Hearn to Chris Mannix’s podcast, speaking about Canelo Alvarez having slowed lately as a consequence of age.

“I believe bodily, he don’t wish to take the possibility. He’s fairly glad to coast it out as a result of he’s pondering, ‘No accidents. I’ll go once more. Thanks very a lot, all people. Goodbye.’

“In case you pay him the cash, he’ll struggle Benavidez,” Hearn continued about Canelo. “Pay attention, let’s see what occurs with Bivol towards Beterbiev. I don’t suppose that’s a struggle that Eddy Reynoso might be screaming for.

“If Bivol wins or loses, that’s an possibility. If Bivol had been to lose [to Beterbiev], Bivol would come all the way down to 168 to rematch him [Canelo]. If Bivol had been to win, you might have the undisputed struggle at 175. That’s an enormous struggle,” stated Hearn.

A win for Bivol over Beterbiev on October twelfth would make him the undisputed champion at 175 and would arrange an enormous struggle between him and Canelo.