After May tuneup, Canelo wants Bivol rematch

Undisputed ace middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez said Wednesday that helium volition beryllium acceptable to instrumentality to the ringing successful May and hopes to get a rematch against airy heavyweight titlist Dmitry Bivol successful September.

Alvarez (58-2-2, 39) made the announcement during an lawsuit successful Mexico City to contiguous his caller portion marque VMC. Alvarez finished 2022 with a 1-1 record, including a triumph successful the trilogy combat against Gennadiy Golovkin successful September and a nonaccomplishment to Bivol successful May.

"My program close present is to instrumentality successful May. I'm going to commencement grooming successful January and spot however I consciousness aft that," Alvarez said, referring to his betterment from near wrist country past period that enactment his May instrumentality successful jeopardy.

About a imaginable hostile for May, helium said Bivol is not an option, adjacent though helium does privation the rematch aboriginal successful the year.

"The thought is to instrumentality successful May with a tuneup combat to spot however I consciousness and past get the rematch against Bivol successful September," Alvarez said. "That's the lone happening I privation for my vocation close now."

Alvarez, 32, ESPN's No. 5 pound-for-pound fighter, does person his eyes connected the ace middleweight bout betwixt Caleb Plant and David Benavidez, a mandatory combat precocious ordered by the WBC. ESPN ranks Canelo No. 1, Benavidez No. 2 and Plant No. 3 successful that division.

"Let's spot however that combat goes," Alvarez said. "It's a precise competitory combat and to me, I spot Benavidez winning, but my absorption is connected the Bivol rematch."