It's official — Saul "Canelo" Alvarez will fight Sergey Kovalev at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, and live on DAZN, Nov. 2.
The face of boxing took to his social media accounts Friday and announced that he'll be moving up from middleweight to light heavyweight in attempt to vie for Kovalev's WBO title and become a four-division world champion to cement his fighting legacy that much further.
Earlier this summer, Canelo and Kovalev were in negotiations to fight during this Mexican Independence Day weekend, but those talks fell through and the latter wound up scoring an 11th-round KO of Anthony Yarde late last month, instead.
Alvarez, having already claimed world titles as a junior middleweight, middleweight and super middleweight, admits that this fight against Kovalev at 175 pounds "will be one of the biggest challenges in my career."
A challenge he's clearly up for. The 29-year-old Alvarez (52-1-2, 35 KOs) is coming off an impressive unanimous decision victory over Daniel Jacobs in May.
After suffering an unexpected seventh-round TKO loss to Eleider Alvarez last year, the 36-year-old Kovalev (34-3-1, 29 KOs) exacted revenge against the Colombian via unanimous decision to take back his WBO title in February, before defeating Yarde last month.
Will Canelo add a significant chapter to his fighting legacy or will the "Krusher" prove that he's too big and heavy-handed for the boxing sensation?
