{"id":37791,"date":"2025-09-22T05:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/eubank-jr-targets-canelo-in-2026-mega-fight-on-the-horizon\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T05:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:40:22","slug":"eubank-jr-targets-canelo-in-2026-mega-fight-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/eubank-jr-targets-canelo-in-2026-mega-fight-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Eubank Jr. targets Canelo in 2026: Mega-fight on the horizon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Chris Eubank Jr. Aims High: Canelo \u00c1lvarez in Sight<\/h2>\n\nFollowing his anticipated match against Conor Benn on November 15th, Chris Eubank Jr. has his sights set on an epic-proportioned fight against Canelo \u00c1lvarez in early 2026. This was revealed by promoter Ben Shalom.\n\nEubank will face Benn for the second time at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, after having won their first encounter by unanimous decision in April. This second fight is part of the contractual obligations between both boxers.\n\nThe fight will be contested at middleweight (160 pounds), with a 10-pound rehydration clause, as happened in the first fight.\n\nIn the event of victory, Eubank Jr. will seek a mega-fight against \u00c1lvarez or even against Terence Crawford in the first part of 2026.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;2026 is going to be a great year [for Eubank]&#8221;, Shalom stated.<\/p><cite>Ben Shalom<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nShalom added that, if Eubank wins, they will seek the best opponents. &#8220;Canelo, Crawford, those are the two names he would like to fight and we hope to make that happen early next year.&#8221;\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0427%2Fr1484534_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Eubank Jr. faces Conor Benn a second time in November.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Chris Eubank Jr. faces Conor Benn a second time in November.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nAfter Crawford&#8217;s victory over \u00c1lvarez, Eubank Jr. posted on social media: &#8220;Eubank x Crawford 2026&#8221;.\n\nHowever, Shalom believes a showdown with \u00c1lvarez is more likely.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I think [Canelo] is the fight,&#8221; Shalom said.<\/p><cite>Ben Shalom<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n&#8220;Canelo has never fought in the UK, the biggest star in boxing, and you have the UK&#8217;s biggest boxing star [Eubank], the only one who could really make sense for Canelo. I think Wembley would sell out. I think it&#8217;s one of the biggest fights that could possibly be made in world boxing. Chris is focused on November 15th, then we can look at that fight.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Eubank Jr. Aims High: Canelo \u00c1lvarez in Sight Following his anticipated match against Conor Benn on November 15th, Chris Eubank Jr. has his sights set on an epic-proportioned fight against Canelo \u00c1lvarez in early 2026. This was revealed by promoter Ben Shalom. Eubank will face Benn for the second time at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,895,240,3420],"class_list":{"0":"post-37791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-boxing","7":"tag-boxing","8":"tag-canelo","9":"tag-chris-eubank-jr","10":"tag-rematch"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}