Let’s explore how Christian Mbilli’s relentless pressure and high work rate pose a unique stylistic threat to Canelo Alvarez at this stage of his career.
Alvarez sometimes can not have a high punch volume in there and sometimes he starts not very fast also.
Those are things he does not need to be doing against a guy like Mbilli that he fights soon enough.
Some notes on the above;
- Mbilli is an undefeated super middleweight known for come-forward pressure
- He fights out of Montreal and is one of the division’s most relentless volume punchers
- His war with Lester Martinez was hailed as one of the year’s best fights
- His endless gas tank allows him to maintain output across all 12 rounds
- He throws combinations in bunches and refuses to take backward steps
- Canelo’s punch output has declined in his 30s
- Mbilli’s aggressive entries could exploit Canelo’s slow starts
- His pressure would test whether Canelo still has the legs to pivot
- Mbilli has called this the most important fight of his career
- If Canelo cannot hurt him early, the fight favors the younger fighter
Former champion Canelo looked like he had been plodding a bit in the heavy defeat to Bud last year in Las Vegas.
His feet and legs proved not to be that fast anymore.
They had displayed signs of decay and that is concerning, given all that layoff and ring rust he has accumalted since.
The Bud defeat is still in his mind and happened back in September of last year at this point.
That’s a bit for any professional boxer to be out of action, he did not get knocked out, he should have come back a bit sooner.
Styles make fights and if Mbilli can have a fast start and land stuff on him in round one and keep that pace up from bell to bell, and if former boxing champion Canelo is not motivated, things are going to get tough for him.
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