Promoter Eddie Hearn wants to see WBO super middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders 30-0 (14) in the ring with WBC and WBA champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez 54-1-2 (36).
Mexican superstar Alvarez, 30, dominated Callum Smith 27-1 (19) over 12-rounds to win a wide unanimous decision in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday night.
“Well done now 2021 unification let’s get it on,” the 31-year-old Saunders tweeted to Canelo, Hearn and MTK Global after the fight.
Matchroom Boxing boss Hearn wants to revisit the Alvarez-Saunders matchup after plans for the fight earlier this year were scrapped due to the global coronavirus pandemic.
“We already had a deal in place for Billy Joe to fight Canelo Alvarez in May, and he tweeted tonight that he wants a shot. Canelo walked past me and said, ‘Who’s next?’,” Hearn said.
“We have tried [to beat Canelo] with Rocky Fielding, Daniel Jacobs, and now Callum Smith. We’ve got two more with Billy Joe Saunders and Gennadiy Golovkin.
“Obviously, they’re great fights. He [Canelo] loves the belts, he loves to face the champions. In fact, that’s what he wants to do. He wants to keep setting goals with the belts.”
Alvarez could make a quick return to the ring against WBC mandatory Avni Yildirim 21-2 (12) of Turkey before targeting two more fights in 2021.
“I know they [Canelo] want to fight regularly,” Hearn continued. “There was talk of him fighting in Mexico at the end of February and getting the Yildirim fight out of the way.
“Then boxing in May and September. He said December but he’s obviously quite comfortable at the moment with the adrenalin rush.
“Tomorrow, he [Canelo] might wake up and say, ‘I ain’t fighting in February’. So now my job is to keep him on DAZN and try and map out a schedule for him.
“Obviously, the front two guys of his choice, I believe are Billy Joe and GGG. I know he wants to make money, but I can only tell you what I’ve experienced from him and Eddy Reynoso in the last five or six weeks, which is a desire to create a legacy and create challenges.
“They want a plan, they want something mapped out, and they want to see it and picture what the next moves are.
“The next move sometimes isn’t just one fight. He’s saying to me, ‘How does 2021 look like?’
“If they wanted a plan for that, we could come up with a plan and move forward with that.”
