Canelo Alvarez determines to unify the middleweight division this year

Canelo Alvarez vs Danny Jacobs

CANELO ALVAREZ and Danny Jacobs completed a three-city media tour in Los Angeles on Monday.

The IBF title, held by Jacobs, and Caneloโ€™s WBC and WBA middleweight championships will be on the line when they fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Alvarez has set out a clear goal for the rest of 2019, good news if youโ€™re Demetrius Andrade, not such good news if youโ€™re Gennady Golovkin.

Canelo wants to beat Jacobs of course and then go on to unify the middleweight division.

Andrade holds the WBO title and shares a broadcast platform with Alvarez in DAZN. Golovkin, Caneloโ€™s great rival, might long for a third fight with Alvarez but he might have to go through Andrade to get there.

Alvarezโ€™s trainer Eddy Reynoso declared, โ€œOur objective this year is to win all the belts. Become the first Mexican world champion to unify [become undisputed] in history and Jacobs is there right now as the IBF champion.โ€

Alvarez said, โ€œ Iโ€™ve always wanted to write history. To be the best youโ€™ve got to beat the best. This is no exception. I love challenges. I want the people to know when they come to see my fights theyโ€™re going to get the best fights. I may win, I may lose, I may draw. But Iโ€™ll tell you what, my heart is a winning heart. And May 4 will not be an exception. Iโ€™m coming to win for you.

“I know heโ€™s a tough opponent, I know heโ€™s complicated but heโ€™s a world champion.โ€

Jacobs himself attracted some ire from Caneloโ€™s supporters when he insisted that Golovkin deserved to win his two fights with Alvarez.

โ€œBut it is my job to go in there and make a decisive win come May 4,โ€ Danny said. โ€œWeโ€™re going to give you guys exactly what youโ€™re looking for.

โ€œI believe Iโ€™m bigger, stronger. Iโ€™m a fast guy and I believe that I have the will and the desire to go inside that ring and be victorious. Iโ€™ve always stressed that I could knock Canelo Alvarez out and be the first to do so.โ€

canelo alvarez vs danny jacobs

Promoter Oscar De La Hoya was enthusiastic about the Canelo-Jacobs unification. โ€œYou have two gladiators who donโ€™t have quit in their game. [Jacobs] having to survive cancer, having to come back and win two world titles. Do you think anythingโ€™s going to stop him? You think that when he sees Canelo in the middle of the ring heโ€™s going to be scared? Have fear? No. Then you have Canelo. When he was born there was no fear in him,โ€ De La Hoya said. โ€œCanelo faces everybody, he faces anybody.

โ€œI guarantee you this is going to be the fight of the year.โ€

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