{"id":15632,"date":"2025-06-10T17:21:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/saul-canelo-alvarez-v-terence-crawford-las-vegas-super-fight-confirmed-for-13-september\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T17:21:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:21:44","slug":"saul-canelo-alvarez-v-terence-crawford-las-vegas-super-fight-confirmed-for-13-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/saul-canelo-alvarez-v-terence-crawford-las-vegas-super-fight-confirmed-for-13-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Saul &#8216;Canelo&#8217; Alvarez v Terence Crawford: Las Vegas super-fight confirmed for 13 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Saul &#8216;Canelo&#8217; Alvarez&#8217;s super-fight against Terence Crawford will take place in Las Vegas on Saturday, 13 September.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mexican pound-for-pound great Alvarez will meet undefeated American Crawford for the undisputed super-middleweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The blockbuster will be streamed globally on Netflix and has been billed the &#8220;fight of the century&#8221; by Turki Alalshikh, chairman of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s general entertainment authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be the first fight to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c5y071gl3xzo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">promoted by Alalshikh in collaboration with UFC president Dana White.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Turki wants to make the biggest fights that the fans want to see in boxing and this is right up my alley,&#8221; said White.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Are you kidding me that the first boxing fight I&#8217;m going to get to promote is Canelo versus Crawford? It&#8217;s literally a once-in-a-lifetime fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alvarez holds all four recognised world titles in the super-middleweight division after the 34-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c0r5l2n11weo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">beat William Scull last month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That resulted in him regaining the IBF belt and the undisputed super-middleweight title, and after the fight Crawford was confirmed as his next opponent, with the pair posing for a face-off in the ring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m ready to show once again that I am the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world,&#8221; the Mexican said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cgj8qwyzy0do\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saul &#8216;Canelo&#8217; Alvarez&#8217;s super-fight against Terence Crawford will take place in Las Vegas on Saturday, 13 September. Mexican pound-for-pound great Alvarez will meet undefeated American Crawford for the undisputed super-middleweight title. The blockbuster will be streamed globally on Netflix and has been billed the &#8220;fight of the century&#8221; by Turki Alalshikh, chairman of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15634,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632\/revisions\/15634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}