WBC-ийн аварга Кристиан Мбилли аравдугаар сарын 31-нд Саудын Арабын Рияд хотод Канело Альварестай тулалдахаар товлогджээ.
WBC-ийн супер дунд жингийн аварга, 29-0-1 (24 KO) амжилттай Кристиан Мбилли 64-3-2 (39 KO) амжилттай Канело Альварестай тулалдах гэж байна. Мбилли өрсөлдөгчөө өндөр туршлагатай, аюултай боксчин гэдгийг хүлээн зөвшөөрч байгаа ч өөрийн давуу тал болох эрч хүч, шахалт үзүүлэх чадвараа тулааны гол түлхүүр хэмээн үзэж байна. 36 настай Канело Альваресийн хувьд мэргэжлийн рингэнд 69 тулаан хийж, 500 гаруй раунд өнгөрүүлсэн нь түүний бие бялдрын бэлтгэлд сөргөөр нөлөөлж болзошгүй гэсэн болгоомжлол мэргэжилтнүүдийн дунд байна.
Мбиллигийн түрэмгий, эрчимтэй тулааны хэв маяг нь сүүлийн үеийн тулаанууддаа раундын дунд үеэс ядарч, хамгаалалтад шилждэг Канелод хүндрэл учруулах магадлалтай. Хэрэв Мбилли энэхүү тулаанд ялалт байгуулж, Альваресийн сул талыг ил болгосон тохиолдолд “Riyadh Season”-ыг зохион байгуулагчид дараагийн тулааны сонголтын хувьд хүнд байдалд орох юм.
Канело Альварес өмнө нь ялагдал хүлээсэн тохиолдолд даага нэхэхээс илүүтэйгээр шинэ өрсөлдөгч рүү шилждэг заншилтай тул Мбиллид ялагдвал дахин тулалдах магадлал бага хэмээн шинжээчид дүгнэж байна. Энэ нь зохион байгуулагчдын хувьд Канелогийг өөр боксчинтой, тухайлбал Ширазтай тулалдуулах төлөвлөгөөг хэрэгжүүлэхэд маркетингийн хувьд сөрөг нөлөөтэй байж болзошгүй юм.
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Christian Mbilli looks at Canelo Alvarez and sees an ancient relic from a bygone boxing era, a fighter whose dominance was artificially preserved through years of soft, handpicked opposition before reality caught up to him last year.
WBC super middleweight champion Mbilli (29-0-1, 24 KOs) will defend his belt against Canelo (64-3-2, 39 KOs) on October 31 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The bout tops a DAZN pay-per-view card. Mbilli knows the clock has run out on Canelo’s smoke-and-mirrors run. After the interviewer noted that Mbilli had previously labeled the 36-year-old Canelo old and past his peak, the champion refused to soften his stance.
“Of course. Yes, it’s very good timing for me to take him. He’s still very dangerous. He has big power and good counterpunching. I have to be careful, but I think it’s very good timing for me,” Mbilli said. “I think my pressure and my energy [are advantages]. I put a lot of energy and a lot of pressure.”
Canelo took this fight because Riyadh offered a massive paycheck to headline on October 31, but stylistically and physically, he is playing with fire.
When Gennadiy Golovkin was 36, he was still tracking fighters down, jabbing their heads back into the cheap seats, and maintaining relentless pace round after round. Canelo, 36, turned professional at fifteen years old. He has sixty-nine fights, over five hundred grueling rounds, and two full decades of wear and tear grinding away at his joints. His athletic odometer reads more like forty-two than thirty-six. Canelo has turned into a high-end luxury vehicle running on fumes. In his last stretch of fights, the pattern became undeniable.
He works in short sixty-second bursts, leaning back on the ropes, trying to hide behind a tight guard while taking deep breaths. Once that gas tank hits empty around round six, he does not recover. There is no second wind. Against Terence Crawford, that inability to sustain work resulted in complete technical surrender. He just stood there, unable to mount offense, looking bewildered because his physical vehicle refused to respond to the commands in his brain.
Mbilli is an aggressive pressure fighter; walking straight toward him would deliver easy counterpunching opportunities. That is the old Canelo arrogance talking, the memory of what he used to do to brawlers who lacked defense. The problem for Canelo is that Mbilli is not going to stand politely at mid-range, admiring his reputation or waiting for permission to throw. Mbilli unloads eighty to ninety punches a round. He crowds, headbutts, leans, and hammers away with bad intentions.
If Canelo gasses out after four rounds of trading and parks himself on the ropes looking for rest, Mbilli will not let him breathe. He will drown him under a relentless avalanche of leather. Unless Canelo can catch Mbilli early with a perfect, fight-altering counter hook down the pipe to force total respect, this matchup has all the ingredients of an embarrassing changing-of-the-guard beatdown.
Watching a legendary fighter get battered on his feet simply because his legs and lungs died on him five rounds earlier is one of the ugliest sights in boxing. Canelo may find out the hard way in Riyadh that you cannot overhaul a shot engine inside twelve rounds against a relentless physical wrecking ball.
If Mbilli dominates Canelo and exposes his shot gas tank in October, Riyadh Season finds itself holding a depreciated asset with one contractual commitment left to fulfill.
That puts the Saudi organizers in an awkward matchmaking bind. A rematch with Mbilli makes zero promotional sense. You pointed directly to the blueprint Canelo has followed throughout his entire career. He is not Sugar Ray Robinson traveling to Europe to instantly avenge Randy Turpin. Canelo treats losses as business write-offs.
When Floyd Mayweather schooled him, Canelo walked away. When Dmitry Bivol outclassed him, Canelo made polite noise about a return, then ran straight back to Gennadiy Golovkin and John Ryder, never stepping anywhere near Bivol again. After Terence Crawford outpointed him, Canelo accepted the check and moved on. If Mbilli batters him, Canelo predictably will never mention Mbilli’s name again.
That leaves Riyadh Season with a damaged commodity to burn off in their final contractual bout.If Turki Alalshikh turns around and pairs Sheeraz with Canelo after Mbilli dismantles the Mexican veteran, the optics would be rotten to the core.
You would have Sheeraz, an exposed belt-dropper branded as a runner by hardcore fight fans, standing across from a battered, shot version of Canelo coming off a stoppage or a one-sided drubbing. It would not be an elite championship contest. It would be an artificial, manufactured cash-out designed to prop up a fighter who just sprinted away from his real test.
Promoting that as a marquee event would be grotesque. The storyline cannot be sold as two supreme titans colliding. The hardcore fans would view it as a disgraced runner being rewarded with an elderly, worn-out punching bag who could not keep his legs under him against Mbilli.
If Canelo gets embarrassed on October 31, tossing him into the ring with Sheeraz would not fool anyone. It would just be a cynical liquidation sale where the promoter tries to pass a manufactured torch to an anointed favorite who was terrified of fighting his own mandatory.
