Live results: Canelo Alvarez challenges Christian Mbilli for WBC title

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez returns to the ring to challenge Christian Mbilli for the WBC super middleweight title tonight (Saturday, October 31) at The Venue in Riyadh.

• Mexico’s 36-year-old Canelo (62-3-2, 39 KOs) competes for the first time since last September, when he lost his undisputed 168-pound title to Terence Crawford.
• Cameroonian-French champion Mbilli (29-0-1, 24 KOs), who currently holds the division’s WBC title, comes off a split draw with Lester Martinez at the same event in Las Vegas.
• Mbilli, 31, who initially won the interim title, was elevated to full champion following Crawford’s retirement.
• A day before the fight, Canelo and Mbilli both made weight, showing 167.6 lbs and 167.8 lbs, respectively.

How to watch: Live on DAZN PPV, starting at 10:00 a.m. ET in the U.S. and 2:00 p.m. GMT in the UK. Canelo and Mbilli are expected to make their ring walks at approximately 4:30 p.m. ET and 8:30 p.m. GMT.

The undercard includes:

• Mexico’s Jaime Munguia (46-2, 35 KOs) makes the first defense of his WBA super middleweight title against Nikita Zon (12-0-1, 10 KOs).
• Mexico’s Rafael Espinoza (28-0, 24 KOs) makes the fifth defense of his WBO featherweight title against Nicaragua’s Ricardo Blandon (21-6, 14 KOs).
• Japan’s Reito Tsutsumi (5-0, 4 KOs) and Mexico’s Raymundo Rojas Garcia (16-2, 11 KOs) square off at super featherweight.
• Mexico’s David Picasso (33-1-1, 18 KOs) defends his WBC Silver featherweight title against Carl Jammes Martin (28-0, 21 KOs) of the Philippines.

Canelo vs Mbilli results

(10:00 a.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. GMT)

• Canelo Alvarez vs. Christian Mbilli
• Jaime Munguia vs. Nikita Zon
• Rafael Espinoza vs. Ricardo Blandon
• Reito Tsutsumi vs. Raymundo Rojas Garcia
• David Picasso vs. Carl Jammes Martin
• Sultan Almohammed vs. Erick Jahir Urvina Villegas
• Bek Nurmaganbet vs. Marcos Vazquez Rodriguez
• Carlos Emilio Rojo Vazquez vs. Flavius Biea
• Brayan Leon Salgado vs. Hector Octavio Aguirre Martinez