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Canelo Alvarez target looks to extend unbeaten record and retain titles

Beterbiev is the unified light heavyweight champion and has been linked with a showdown against Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez.

WBC and IBF unified light heavyweight world champion Artur Beterbiev moved to Montreal nearly a decade ago to embark on his professional journey following a pair of Olympic berths for his native Russia.

Sixteen fights into his career, he will return to his adopted hometown for the first time as a world champion.
Beterbiev, boxing's only world champion with a 100 per cent knockout rate, will defend his world titles against WBC No.1 contender and 2012 U.S. Olympian Marcus Browne on Friday December 17 at the Bell Centre in Montreal.

Beterbiev (16-0, 16 KOs) last fought in Canada in December 2016, a first-round stoppage over Isidro Ranoni Prieto.

He won the vacant IBF world title in his next fight, which he defended two times before unifying titles with a devastating-10th round stoppage over longtime WBC king Oleksandr Gvozdyk.

After a nearly 18-month absence, Beterbiev returned in March with a 10th-round TKO over Adam Deines in Moscow.

Should he come through his upcoming bout, Beterbiev could very well be taking on Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez next, according to Bob Arum.

Browne (24-1, 16 KOs), a 30-year-old native of Staten Island, New York, won an interim world title in January 2019 with a unanimous decision win over two-weight world champion Badou Jack.
After dropping a technical decision to Jean Pascal in August 2019, Browne returned to his winning ways on April 20 with a shutout decision over Denis Grachev.
Beterbiev-Browne will headline a loaded world title tripleheader streaming live and exclusively in the United States on ESPN+.
Undefeated light flyweight contender Kim Clavel will challenge for the WBC title, while former IBF junior middleweight world champion Marie-Eve Dicaire will attempt to regain her crown.

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