Despite coming up short in his light-heavyweight return earlier this year, Canelo Alvarez is not ruling out a cruiserweight fight with Oleksandr Usyk.
Alvarez, 32, suffered his first loss in almost nine years when he was outpointed by 175lb world titleholder Dmitry Bivol in May. It marked his second fight at the weight class, having previously captured the WBA title against Sergey Kovalev in 2019. Alvarez is returning back to 168lb for his next fight to defend his undisputed title against bitter rival Gennady Golovkin on September 17.
The Mexican has previously stated he would face unified heavyweight champion Usyk - who was once an undisputed champion at cruiserweight - if both men weighed 201lb for the fight. Alvarez is still open to the idea, as he told Fight Hype : "It's difficult, but I don't care. I like that type of challenge, I don't care. It's going to be difficult I know, but I love boxing. I love being in that type of situation.
