The top pound-for-pound fighter in the world returns to the ring on Saturday night in Miami when Saul "Canelo" Alvarez defends his WBC and WBA super middleweight world titles against mandatory challenger Avni Yildirim. The fight is the first of Alvarez's 2021 schedule and stands in the way of more compelling matchups later in the calendar year.
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Alvarez is riding a 13-fight unbeaten streak since his lone career defeat, a 2013 decision loss to Floyd Mayweather. In his career, he has won championships at junior middleweight, middleweight, super middleweight, and light heavyweight. Looking ahead, Alvarez already plans to fight WBO champion Billy Joe Saunders in May before fighting twice more in the year, with hopes of facing IBF champion Caleb Plant to unify all four 168-pound world titles.
Yildirim is a title contender only through the complicated maneuverings of boxing politics. He has not fought in two years and is coming off a technical decision loss in his most recent outing. Still, he was named mandatory challenger for the WBC title and took money to step aside and allow Alvarez to face Callum Smith in his most recent outing,