Canelo Alvarez is a champion again. On Saturday night in Riyadh, the Mexican star regained the WBC super-middleweight championship with a unanimous decision over the previously unbeaten Christian Mbilli — the judges scoring it 115-112, 116-111 and 117-110 — in his first fight since losing the undisputed title to Terence Crawford in September 2025 and undergoing elbow surgery. "THE CHAMP IS BACK," Alvarez posted afterward, holding the green belt he first won a decade ago.
Mbilli did not lose quietly, and he did not help himself either: the Cameroon-born Frenchman was docked a point in the eighth round for a punch to the back of the head, and the deduction widened a gap he was already chasing. He falls to 29-1-1, his unbeaten record gone in his first world-title fight. Alvarez improves to 64-3-2 — and, at 36, has answered the question that hung over the whole comeback: whether the surgically repaired elbow and the Crawford defeat had taken the last of the prime years.
The fight headlined the "Mexico vs. The World" card in the Saudi capital, the latest of the Riyadh mega-shows that have moved boxing's biggest nights to the Gulf — and for the sport's enormous American and Mexican-American audience, it delivered the ending they came for. Alvarez remains, even now, the biggest draw in boxing: the rare fighter whose comeback fight, after a loss and an operation, is still the night's main event on two continents.
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