{"id":71574,"date":"2018-12-16T02:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/16\/canelo-alvarez-v-rocky-fielding-wba-super-middleweight-championship-live\/"},"modified":"2018-12-16T02:00:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T01:00:25","slug":"canelo-alvarez-v-rocky-fielding-wba-super-middleweight-championship-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=71574","title":{"rendered":"Canelo \u00c1lvarez v Rocky Fielding: WBA super middleweight championship \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican moves up to 168lbs to face Liverpool longshot in NYCFielding: \u2018To fight at Madison Square Garden is unbelievable\u2019Tweet Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email him 10.15pm GMT Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime here\u2019s his lookahead to tonight\u2019s main event.On paper it is an opportunity for \u00c1lvarez, the sport\u2019s biggest star, to move up to super middleweight and earn a title in a third weight class while fighting for the first time in the media capital of the world. In reality it is a showcase with Fielding as the presumptive soft touch, handpicked to make DAZN\u2019s newly minted poster boy look good, lending the entire affair the feel of a promotional appearance and brand-building exercise more than a legitimate world title contest.That is more a testament to the Mexican\u2019s rare vintage than a slight to Fielding, the amiable scouser who has rebuilt admirably with six wins in a row from the wreckage of a first-round knockout loss to Callum Smith (the WBA\u2019s true champion at 168lbs). Fielding earned his seat at Saturday\u2019s table with a fifth-round upset of Germany\u2019s Tyron Zeuge on five weeks\u2019 notice for the organization\u2019s so-called regular title in July. Related: Canelo \u00c1lvarez awaits in Rocky Fielding&#8217;s unlikely shot at glory Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2018\/dec\/15\/canelo-rocky-fight-live-dazn-super-middleweight-title\" target=\"_blank\">Canelo \u00c1lvarez v Rocky Fielding: WBA super middleweight championship \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican moves up to 168lbs to face Liverpool longshot in NYCFielding: \u2018To fight at Madison Square Garden is unbelievable\u2019Tweet Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email him 10.15pm GMT Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime here\u2019s his lookahead to tonight\u2019s main event.On paper it is an opportunity for \u00c1lvarez, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}