“But we’ll just have to wait and see what’s gonna happen.”ĭespite his uncertainty of when and who will next face, Alvarez said he does want to face Bivol again.
“We’ll see what happens in the future,” he said. Gently pressed for a more clear answer about when and who he would next fight, Alvarez declined to be specific as he had been in the ring. “We’re gonna go to see what’s next, to talk about it and we’ll let you know,” Alvarez, wearing dark glasses to hide his facial bruising, said at the news conference. Alvarez is 1-0-1 against GGG in a pair of middleweight title fights that both ended in a storm of controversy over the scoring.īut, with Alvarez losing to heavy underdog Bivol, who he will face next - and if he will even fight on Sept. 17 - Mexican Independence Day weekend - in a third meeting with rival Gennadiy Golovkin, the unified middleweight titlist, who would move up to challenge Alvarez for his undisputed super middleweight title. Had Mexico’s Alvarez won, his next fight was scheduled to be on Sept. But, later in during the question and answer session he declined to commit to facing Bivol again in his next fight. Immediately after Dmitry Bivol was declared the 115-113 winner on all three scorecards to retain his light heavyweight world title against Canelo Alvarez on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena, the now-deposed pound-for-pound king said he planned to invoke his contractual right to an immediate rematch.Ī short time later Alvarez, who had moved up to light heavyweight for the second time seeking a second title in the division, reiterated that stance in the early part of his post-fight news conference.
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