The coronation of the U.K.’s King Charles III is set for Saturday, May 6.

Closer to home, another “monarch” will expect to be crowned in Guadalajara on this day.

“The king is back home and we are very happy to receive him here,” Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro said at a press conference announcing details of boxer Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s fight against John Ryder at Guadalajara’s Akron Stadium.

May 6, Alvarez will put his four super middleweight world title belts on the line when he faces the British boxer in his first fight in his hometown for 12 years.

The press conference held Tuesday at the Akron Stadium was attended by both boxers, the promoters of the contest, state officials and dozens of sports journalists from around the world.

Alfaro said the fight will be one of the key events in this year’s celebrations marking Jalisco’s 200 years as a free and sovereign state.

“Canelo raises up the name of our state in Mexico and in the world.” Alfaro said of the 31-year-old fighter born to a humble family in the Guadalajara suburb of Juanacatlan. “Through boxing he defends the values that give us our identity as a state.”

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