{"id":438972,"date":"2023-07-01T05:27:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T09:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438972"},"modified":"2023-07-01T05:27:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T09:27:46","slug":"canelo-alvarez-to-fight-charlo-in-las-vegas-in-a-blockbuster-event","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canelo-alvarez-to-fight-charlo-in-las-vegas-in-a-blockbuster-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez to fight Charlo in Las Vegas in a blockbuster event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saul &#8216;Canelo&#8217; Alvarez will take on undisputed light middleweight champion Jermell Charlo in Las Vegas on Sept. 30, he announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez currently holds all four belts in his division and decided to announce the news, posting a photo of the pair on Twitter with the headline &#8216;Undisputed vs Undisputed&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican is considered my many for the leading pound-for-pound fighter in the world and last fought on May 6, when he outpointed English fighter John Ryder to record his 59th victory in 63 professional fights.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">UNDISPUTED vs UNDISPUTED<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f Sept. 30<br \/>\n\ud83d\udccdLas Vegas <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pAlSN5VszU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pAlSN5VszU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canelo Alvarez (@Canelo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canelo\/status\/1674888423650492417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The announcement means Charlo&#8217;s anticipated clash with Australian Tim Tszyu will not happen ahead of a deadline imposed on the American by the World Boxing Organisation, leaving the American at risk of being stripped of that belt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saul &#8216;Canelo&#8217; Alvarez will take on undisputed light middleweight champion Jermell Charlo in Las Vegas on Sept. 30, he announced on Friday. Alvarez [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":438973,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18848,20214],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[18849,20215],"acf":{"announce":"The fight will be in September and was announced with a photo, captioned 'Undisputed vs Undisputed'","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438972"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438972"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}