Canelo Álvarez to Face WBC Champion Christian Mbilli in Riyadh on September 12

Canelo Álvarez will face WBC super-middleweight champion Christian Mbilli on September 12 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as announced by Turki Alalshikh in London on Saturday. The fight comes one year after Álvarez lost his undisputed super-middleweight crown to Terence Crawford in Las Vegas, an event that drew over 41 million Netflix viewers. Mbilli, a French-Cameroonian fighter based in Montreal, holds the WBC title after winning the interim belt with a victory over Maciej Sulecki.