{"id":29915,"date":"2021-02-16T07:01:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=29915"},"modified":"2021-02-16T07:01:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T07:01:05","slug":"canelo-plans-to-fight-six-or-seven-more-years-focused-on-unification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=29915","title":{"rendered":"Canelo plans to fight \u201csix or seven\u201d more years, focused on unification"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Handout Photo-USA TODAY Sports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alvarez has been fighting professionally for 15 years<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div data-anthem-component=\"actionbox\" data-anthem-component-data='{\"title\":\"&lt;a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/blhdazn\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Don\u2019t miss Canelo\u2019s return on February 27! Sign up for DAZN today!&lt;\/a&gt;\",\"description\":\"Canelo Alvarez is back on Saturday, Feb. 27 against Avni Yildirim. Sign up and catch all the action live, plus much more boxing from DAZN!\",\"label\":\"Sign up for DAZN now!\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/blhdazn\"}'><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>With less than two weeks to go until his scheduled clash with WBC mandatory super middleweight challenger Avni Yildirim, Canelo Alvarez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tudn.com\/boxeo\/futuro-175-para-canelo-alvarez-me-dijo-eddy-reynoso-no-damos-ventajas\">sat down with TUDN<\/a> to discuss his current and future plans.<\/p>\n<p>First off, despite a brief sojourn to light heavyweight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2019\/11\/3\/20945974\/canelo-vs-kovalev-results-knockout-11th-round-wbo-title-dazn-boxing-news\">to maul Sergey Kovalev in 2019<\/a>, Alvarez (54-1-2, 36 KO) has no intention of returning to 175 pounds in 2021 and \u201cpossibly\u201d not even in 2022, as trainer Eddy Reynoso believes that he \u201cgives up lots of advantages\u201d at the weight. For now, he and his team are \u201cfocused\u201d on winning titles at super middleweight; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2021\/2\/2\/22263043\/canelo-alvarez-vs-billy-joe-saunders-reportedly-set-may-8-taylor-ramirez-conflict-boxing-news\">he has a tentative date with Billy Joe Saunders on May 8th<\/a> and IBF champion Caleb Plant surely can\u2019t be far behind.<\/p>\n<p>As far as his longevity in the ring, the 30-year-old intends to fight for \u201csix or seven\u201d more years. Alvarez debuted professionally in 2005 at the age of 15, so a 21-22 year career sounds more than feasible.<\/p>\n<p>For now, though, there\u2019s an unheralded Turk and an unpleasant Englishman to deal with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handout Photo-USA TODAY Sports Alvarez has been fighting professionally for 15 years With less than two weeks to go until his scheduled clash with WBC mandatory super middleweight challenger Avni Yildirim, Canelo Alvarez sat down with TUDN to discuss his current and future plans. First off, despite a brief sojourn to light heavyweight to maul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}