{"id":30058,"date":"2021-02-23T07:01:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T07:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=30058"},"modified":"2021-02-23T07:01:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T07:01:48","slug":"canelo-and-yildirim-hit-miami-for-saturday-night-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=30058","title":{"rendered":"Canelo and Yildirim hit Miami for Saturday night fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Photo by Cliff Hawkins\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Canelo Alvarez will be back in the ring in just five days.<\/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 Feb. 27. Sign up and catch all the action live next Saturday!\",\"label\":\"Sign up for DAZN now!\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/blhdazn\"}'><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Canelo Alvarez and Avni Yildirim are in Miami and gearing up for Saturday night\u2019s fight, which will stream live on <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/blhdazn\">DAZN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The two did a photo session at Hard Rock Stadium, where the bout will take place, and got personalized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thephinsider.com\/\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> jerseys. No confirmation as to whether or not the jersey numbers represent their rankings in the super middleweight division.<\/p>\n<p>Yildirim (21-2, 12 KO) is the WBC mandatory challenger, and Alvarez (54-1-2, 36 KO) will be defending both his WBC and WBA super middleweight titles in the fight, which comes just two months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2020\/12\/20\/22191108\/canelo-vs-smith-results-highlights-alvarez-dominates-title-fourth-division-dazn-boxing-news-2020\">Canelo\u2019s win over Callum Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"p-entry-hr\">\n<h2>How to Watch Canelo vs Yildirim<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Date: <\/strong>Saturday, Feb. 27 |<strong> Start Time: <\/strong>7:00 pm ET<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>Hard Rock Stadium &#8211; Miami Gardens, FL<br \/><strong>Streaming: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/blhdazn\">DAZN<\/a><br \/><strong>Online Coverage: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/badlefthook.com\/\">BadLeftHook.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"p-entry-hr\">\n<p>The 30-year-old Alvarez has said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2021\/2\/10\/22276953\/canelo-alvarez-next-fight-hoping-four-fights-this-year-boxing-news-2021\">wants to fight four times this year<\/a>, and already has a <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\">tentative May 8 date lined up to unify against WBO titleholder Billy Joe Saunders<\/a>. From there, should he beat Yildirim and Saunders, he\u2019s expected to target the IBF belt, currently held by Caleb Plant, as the Mexican superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2021\/1\/31\/22258832\/canelo-alvarez-path-undisputed-super-middleweight-saunders-plant-wild-cards-boxing-news-2021\">looks to go undisputed at 168<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019re shaping up for a really eventful in-ring year for Canelo this year, if all goes according to his plan. That\u2019s nice, because he only got to fight the once in 2020, losing most of the year not just to COVID but to his legal battles against Golden Boy Promotions in particular.<\/p>\n<h4><em>Bad Left Hook will have full live coverage, including round-by-round updates, of Canelo vs Yildirim on Saturday, Feb. 27, starting at 7 pm ET.<\/em><\/h4>\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>Photo by Cliff Hawkins\/Getty Images Canelo Alvarez will be back in the ring in just five days. Canelo Alvarez and Avni Yildirim are in Miami and gearing up for Saturday night\u2019s fight, which will stream live on DAZN. The two did a photo session at Hard Rock Stadium, where the bout will take place, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30059,"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\/30058"}],"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=30058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}