Saul “Canelo” Álvarez steps back into the ring this weekend, although one might forgive the famed Tapatío pugilist if he had second thoughts about the fight.

Not so much because of the loss of his world super middleweight titles to Terence Crawford in September 2025,   but because his October 31 bout against unbeaten Christian Mbilli of Cameroon is set to take place in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, whose airport was recently targeted in a deadly missile attack by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, killing 13 people.

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