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Canelo Alvarez to Fight John Ryder in Title Bout, per Report

Canelo Alvarez and John Ryder will reportedly compete in a super middleweight championship fight on May 6, according to ESPN’s sources.

Alvarez will fight to defend his super middleweight title won in September over Gennadiy Golovkin. Alvarez hasn’t competed since due to left wrist surgery undergone in October.

The fight is expected to take place in Jalisco, Mexico. He hasn’t fought in his home country since 2011 and the fighter is from Guadalajara, Jalisco’s capital.

Alvarez enters the fight with a 58-2-2 record and 39 knockouts. Ryder holds a 32–5 record with 18 KOs.

This will be the second time English fighter Ryder will compete in his second world-title competition. He lost his other bout, which came in 2019 when Callum Smith took him down in the 168-pound title fight.

If Alvarez wins the bout against Ryder, he will meet Dmitry Bivol in a rematch of sorts in September. Bivol beat Alvarez in May in a light heavyweight title fight, but their potential future meeting would be a super middleweight fight.

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