Canelo Alvarez might’ve found his next opponent.
The World Boxing Council Board of Governors voted 36-1 Tuesday to order a match between Alvarez and No. 1-ranked Avni Yildirim for the vacant WBC super middleweight title, the WBC tweeted.
No other details were provided. No date, no site, no information on whether the camps and the streaming platform DAZN like the idea.
“More details will be available in days to come,” was all the WBC said.
Alvarez, desperately seeking a viable opponent, might’ve caught a break when then-WBC titleholder David Benavidez lost his belt on the scale going into his fight with Roamer Alexis Angulo last Saturday.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
.@Canelo Alvarez 🆚 Avni Yildirim
For the WBC vacant SuperMiddleweight championship 🔰🥊 pic.twitter.com/SshDDo4x8t
— World Boxing Council (@WBCBoxing) August 18, 2020
That created a title vacancy. And Alvarez was among those who expressed interest in filling it.
An Alvarez-Yildirim fight isn’t as sexy as other possible matchups but it’s solid. Yildirim (21-2, 12 KOs) was set to fight the winner of the Benavidez-Angulo fight for the title before Benavidez failed to make weight.
The Turk’s only losses came against Chris Eubank Jr. in 2017 (KO 3) and Anthony Dirrell in February of last year (TD 10).
Alvarez (53-1-2, 36 KOs) is coming off an 11th-round knockout of Sergey Kovalev to win the WBO light heavyweight title this past November.