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Canelo Álvarez tiene nueva fecha y rival para volver al ring

Ni la revancha con Dmitry Bivol ni David Benavidez. El próximo rival de Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez será Christian Mbilli, el invicto francés (nacido en Camerún) que tiene en su poder el cetro supermediano del Consejo Mundial de Boxeo. La pelea será el 31 de octubre.

Canelo llegará como retador, a más de un año de su último combate, cuando perdió todos sus títulos ante Terence Crawford en septiembre del año pasado. Crawford aparecía como un posible contrincante en una revancha, pero el estadounidense se retiró invicto tras derrotar al mexicano.

Mbilli también llegará sin derrotas: tiene 29 triunfos y un empate en sus 30 peleas, aunque de todas ellas la única que fue catalogada como “grande” fue la última, ante Lester Martínez, durante el mismo evento en que el mexicano perdió sus cinturones por decisión dividida. Precisamente ante Martínez se dio el único combate sin triunfo de Mbilli, con empate.

El francés retuvo la corona supermediana de manera interina en aquella noche de Las Vegas, pero el cetro se volvió absoluto en enero, luego de que Crawford confirmara su retiro de los cuadriláteros.

Con la confirmación de la pelea, Álvarez desecha definitivamente los rumores de retiro, que habían aumentado tras una pobre actuación ante Crawford, donde se lo vio muy lento y disminuido ante un gran boxeador. El mexicano ya tenía firmado un contrato con una empresa de Arabia Saudita para dos combates más, pero este ante Mbilli se demoró más de la cuenta.

En primer lugar, Canelo debió someterse a una operación en el codo tras perder ante Crawford, y en segundo lugar, “asuntos familiares” motivaron la suspensión del duelo ante Mbilli, originalmente pautado para septiembre.

En diálogo con Uncrowned, el mexicano sostuvo que “siempre he sido disciplinado con mi entrenamiento y no estaba listo para incorporarme al campamento de preparación. Pospuse la pelea porque primero debía atender asuntos familiares. Ya todo está bien, estoy listo para entrenar y vamos a pelear el 31 de octubre”.

Canelo Álvarez reconoció que está en el epílogo de su carrera y que solo le quedan “tres o cuatro” peleas más por enfrentar, por lo que el retiro podría llegar en 2028, o incluso antes si el físico le dice otra cosa.

Eso sí, el dinero, según el mexicano, no es el principal motor: “No lo hago por el dinero.
Lo hago porque sigo disfrutando y amando el boxeo. Ya no tengo nada que demostrar porque he logrado prácticamente todo en este deporte. Quizás me queden tres o cuatro peleas más porque tengo otros objetivos fuera del boxeo”.

El 31 de octubre, en Arabia Saudita, Saúl Álvarez volverá a subirse al ring para intentar recuperar un poco de la gloria perdida y postergar aunque sea un tiempo más el último capítulo de su carrera en el boxeo.

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Does Trump even care if Russia helps Iran target US troops?

(CNN) — When President Donald Trump launched the Iran war, one of his chief goals was to stop Tehran from funding proxy groups in the Middle East. Those proxy groups, he noted, were responsible for wounding and killing scores of US troops.When it comes to whether Russia is helping Iran target those Americans, though, Trump seems remarkably incurious.And that’s become a pretty familiar posture for him.The most recent example stems from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s testimony before a Senate committee last week.When asked whether China and Russia were helping Iran, Hegseth cited “ways in which both of those countries” have been “enabling some of the things Iran is doing, yes.”Two days later, Secretary of State Marco Rubio ignored a question about the subject while seated across from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.Then Trump issued a social media post contradicting Hegseth. He said China and Russia were “in my opinion, not participating” in the Iran war because their leaders had assured him they weren’t selling weapons to Tehran.“I think, you know, I trust them,” Trump said later in the day, adding: “There could be some things they do. But, thus far, at least, it has not been major. I don’t think they’d want to have me disappointed.”But Russia isn’t just accused of potentially arming Iran; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Moscow has given Iran satellite imagery of US bases.When asked about this Monday, Trump again downplayed how much it mattered — saying it would have been “unimpactful” — but added, “We’ll find out if that’s true. I’ll ask (Russian President Vladimir) Putin about it.”But it’s not like this is a new story for him to suddenly broach with Putin. CNN’s first story on this dates back nearly five months, to early March, when it first reported that Russia was providing intel on US military targets to Iran, according to multiple sources familiar with US intelligence.(The New York Times has reported since then that US and European officials also believed Moscow was providing drones and drone parts to Iran, which the Kremlin denied.)The president greeted CNN’s March reporting much like the news today. He said he had “had no indication of that whatsoever” but that the results in the war’s early days suggested it didn’t matter much.“Whether or not this happened, frankly, it does not really matter,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt added, “because President Trump and the United States military are absolutely decimating the rogue Iranian terrorist regime.”One of Trump’s negotiators to end the Russia-Ukraine war, Steve Witkoff, said he had “strongly” told Russia not to give Iran targeting information and other aid. But Trump never came out and said it so firmly.And even after additional US deaths at the hands of Iran this month, the subject apparently still doesn’t concern him too much.All of it sounds a lot like Trump’s first term, when there was also intelligence linking Russia to the targeting of US troops. Back then, it was Russia possibly placing bounties on those troops in Afghanistan.As of mid-2020, Trump denied he had been orally briefed on it. But CNN and others reported it had been in his daily briefing in February 2020 (which he is not known to fully read) and that the White House had received intelligence about the possibility as far back as early 2019.Trump knocked the story as possibly a “hoax” and “fake news” and, weeks after it was reported, said he had declined to bring it up during a call with Putin.“I have never discussed it with Putin,” Trump told Axios at the time. “I would, I have no problem with it.”The Trump administration emphasized that the intelligence wasn’t conclusive, and the Biden administration said by 2021 that the CIA had only “low to moderate confidence” in it. But that still leaves open the possibility. And given it involves the lives of US troops, it would seem to be something a president might be pretty interested in.Trump, though, has done what he often does — draw an apparent moral equivalency to what the US does. During his first term, he likened the possibility of Russia placing bounties on US troops to the United States aiding anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s. And back in March, he said that Russia would “say we do it against them, wouldn’t they?”The problem with this posture is not just that it places the United States on similar moral ground to Russia; it’s that it sends a message to Russia that helping Iran target US troops — if that indeed is happening — isn’t a red line for Trump.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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