Matchroom and Canelo Promotions have announced that the WBC super middleweight title will be on the line when Canelo Alvarez and Callum Smith clash at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday December 19, live on DAZN. The WBA title will also be at stake. The winner on December 19 will be ordered to face WBC #2 ranked Avni Yildrim within 90 days.
“The WBC is extremely proud to have such tremendous fight for the vacant WBC super middleweight title,” said WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman. “Canelo and Callum will give the world a superb closing of a difficult year and will make fans from around the world celebrate with much entertainment and enjoyment. I would like to personally praise Avni Yildirim for his exemplary collaboration to make this a reality.”
Can we all agree that the WBC is a freaking JOKE!
We can all agree that Arturo is the #1 Canelo Alvarez HATER… LMAO
Sorry , I don’t have any opinion either way re Arturo or Canelo but agree with Arturo’s comms re the WBC. I’m not sure if he’s a Canelo hater but he doesn’t even mention either fighter in his thread.
Re the WBC , we have seen how they’ve been with the HWs and then adding different titles which is then starting to devalue regular titles.
Here they have made this fight with the proviso that the winner fights Yildrim within 90 days. Now everyone knows that Canelo will only fight once every 6 months and if Smith were to win , unless it’s early he aint going to be fighting within 90 days.
They were praising Yildrim for stepping aside but let’s be real here. He probably earnt more money for not fighting here than he did for any of his previous fights and the main reason was because the TV people weren’t interested in Canelo/Yildrim.
This is a worthy fight for the title but the rest is BS.
His comment is not about Canelo. It was about the WBC
I’m a Canelo fan but yes this is an absolute joke. WBC and WBA have both became jokes. They have between the 2, 6 world champions in each weight class. It’s stupid. Somehow they found a way to get Canelo another strap. Crazy!
As are all of these “organizations.”
WBO and IBF only have one world title. IbF turning into the best by how their rankings and the fact they have one title.
Arturo I agree with you is joke every time canelo go to fight give another freeking Belt.
agreed
Arturo, I agree. Canelo ought to be embarrassed…
Seem like a pretty tough and worthy opponent winning the 168lb super series.
One of the biggest fights that can happen and turn into a real money maker is a fight with Beterbiev. Would I love to see that.
If Callum defeats Canelo I could see him fighting Beterbiev, but if Canelo does he wouldn’t go anywhere near the chechnyan.
The WBC is getting ridiculous with too many belts within a division there should get back to only having 1 champion per division to eliminate confusion to the public and legitimacy to the fighter and bring that important significance of being a champion they need to do right for the sport…
But the reality is that those sanction fees are easy money to make for the WBC.
Now as for Canelo, he is full of it too he should at least deny or not accept any of those vacant titles or created titles made available for his events but, Canelo is not stupid either the more titles he can get the better his champion resume shines and its a business move also for him at this stage in his career.
In an ideal world for me I would love to see one day a fighter win a championship title or titles and say – I thank everbody who helped me get to this point in my career but I also see how nowadays its easier to be some kind of champion and I also feel that there are unified champion fighters that are holding those belts hostage and I for one will not accept the belt/belts and will declare them vacant now lets see what happens, now that for me would be awesome
MROB: you make an excellent point.
To be quite honest, i don’t think Canelo wld hold that title belt as anything more than a trophy. Afterall, isn’t he still the WBC franchise champion? But i agree, it wld make my day that IF he wins, he wld vacate the title right there on the spot. That wld give the WBC the rude awakening they deserve
I predict a very tough fight that goes the distance. You have to knock out the red headed slut to be given a draw so yea Canelo W12 Smith.
Very rare to see two guys fighting for one belt, all of a sudden fight for another. I can only recall when the WBC allowed IBF champ Pernell Whitaker to fight Jose Luis Ramirez to fight for their vacant title but that was because they had robbed Sweet P in the first match. There may be others but I can’t recall. Maybe you guys can help me out.
Joshua vs Klitschko was for 2 vacant belts [WBA and IBO] when Joshua was already the IBF Champion.
I predict the CNN virus kayos this fight.
no this biggest joke has recently been the WBO for ranking fighters out of nowhere followed by the IBF for having absolutely nobody ranked 1 or 2 in several divisions
Alvarez will get beat in this fight