The 4 Best Opponents for Canelo Alvarez After Win vs. Jermell Charlo

Welcome back, everyone, to Canelo World.

Boxing’s longest-running pay-per-view stalwart reascended his throne Saturday night in Las Vegas, toppling ambitious challenger Jermell Charlo by a near shutout at T-Mobile Arena.

Two judges gave him 10 of 12 rounds and the third judge had it 11-1.

It was a third straight victory and a third straight successful defense of a quartet of belts for the undisputed champion at 168 pounds, who’s now 9-0 in the weight class and 60-2-2 since turning professional as a 15-year-old in 2005.

“Nobody can beat this Canelo,” Alvarez said. “Nobody can beat me.”

For Charlo, it was a losing conclusion to an ambitious experiment that saw him climb from his own undisputed status at 154 pounds after his twin brother, Jermall, a title claimant at 160 who’d been offered the fight with Alvarez, declined the opportunity.

The next chance to share a marquee with Alvarez is now up for grabs, with fighters residing anywhere from 147 to 175 pounds being talked about as a potential encore. The B/R combat team marked the occasion by taking a look at available options and compiling a list of who we think makes the most sense for the next time around.

Take a look at what we came up with and drop a thought of your own in the comments.

So…you’re saying there’s a chance?

Though he’d long dismissed the idea of engaging social media agitator Jake Paul in a boxing ring, Alvarez nudged the door open in the days leading into the Charlo fight.

“Why not? I think it’s good because other people who never watch boxing, they don’t know anything about boxing. They wanna watch Jake Paul because he brings fans from other worlds, not boxing fans,” he told the Full Send Podcast. “That’s good, because everybody enjoy it. What they do, I think they do for business and you need to respect that.”

As a fight, it’d be a mismatch. As an event, it’d be a can’t-miss.

And don’t suggest for a second you’d not watch, because we don’t believe you.

Paul, for his sake, has long suggested he’d be up to the task.

“He’s a killer at 168 pounds, but people forget that I naturally walk around at about 205, so there’s a big weight difference. There’s a big height advantage,” he told Maxim’s Tom Taylor in 2021. “Canelo hasn’t fought someone who has really challenged him in the last couple of fights. They’ve all been easy guys who just sort of fall on their ass.”

Let’s be clear: If we’re Canelo’s managers, this fight never happens.

Based on 36 minutes of evidence from their initial get-together in May of 2022, it’s