{"id":44451,"date":"2021-01-21T13:03:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T19:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/canelo-enfrentara-a-yildirim-en-miami\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T20:00:00","slug":"canelo-vs-yildirim-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/canelo-vs-yildirim-in-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Vs Yildirim in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Canelo Vs Yildirim in Miami<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Saul \u201cCanelo\u201d Alvarez, will defend his title against the Turkish Avni Yildirim on February 27 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the official announcement of this fight was made, and although it was originally hoped it could be held in Mexico, due to the pandemic it will be Miami.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first defense of the 168-pound title that \u201cCanelo\u201d won by defeating British Callum Smith last December.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Avni Yildirim is a good fighter and I know we will have an exciting fight. I am very happy to be able to bring this event to Miami, just a short distance from where my hero, Muhammad Ali trained. February 27 will be a great night for the sport. , \u201dSaul commented.<\/p>\n<p>Avni Yildirim, the mandatory world title challenger, will return to activity after losing a close technical decision against former champion Anthony Dirrell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an honor for me to be able to fight again for the Green \u00a0and Gold Belt, thanks to all who are involved. I always give my all and everyone must be ready for a war. I come to make my country proud, I am representing all of Turkey, \u201dAvni commented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Canelo&#8221; has commented on several occasions that if everything goes well in this fight, he has a goal of fighting at least three times this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canelo Vs Yildirim in Miami World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Saul \u201cCanelo\u201d Alvarez, will defend his title against the Turkish Avni Yildirim on February 27<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":44447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}