4 Best Opponents for Canelo Alvarez's Next Fight | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors
Andrew Mccoy Welcome back to Canelo Land.
The pay-per-view stalwart and incumbent super middleweight champion was back on his Cinco de Mayo stage Saturday night in Las Vegas and performed as usual, scoring a knockdown and pounding out a wide decision over previously unbeaten Jaime Munguia.
It was a fourth straight victory since his most recent loss, which had come nearly two years to the day in the same T-Mobile Arena venue when he climbed to 175 pounds to fight Dmitry Bivol. He'd finished a trilogy with Gennady Golovkin and handled pretenders John Ryder and Jermell Charlo in the meantime, and Saturday's win bumped him to 61-2-2 as a pro.
And afterward, though fan and media flags were mostly blowing in one direction when it came to naming a next foe, Alvarez took a defiant tack with interviewer Jim Gray,
"At this point, everybody's asking for everything," he said. "When I fought with Lara, Trout, Miguel Cotto, Mayweather, Billy Joe Saunders. Everybody said I'm not gonna fight them and I fought all of them. So right now I can ask whatever I want and I can do whatever I want."
In today's environment, he's not wrong.
This makes it a unique challenge to forecast who actually will be next come the next time he appears, but it's a challenge the B/R combat staff happily accepted while divvying the possibilities into who could be and probably will be next, who we wish would be next, and which choice would break the internet.
Take a look at what we came up with and drop a thought of your own in the comments.