Canelo Alvarez -- 'Goal' is Dmitry Bivol rematch in September - ESPN

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Canelo Alvarez will be defending his undisputed super middleweight championship Saturday night vs. John Ryder before 50,000-plus fans at Akron Stadium — his first fight in Mexico in nearly 12 years — but already, boxing's top star is plotting his next bout.

Alvarez (58-2-2, 39 KOs) plans to fight again on Sept. 16 (he routinely headlines on Cinco De Mayo Weekend and Mexican Independence Day Weekend) and there's only one matchup he has in mind: a rematch with light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol.

When they met last May, Russia's Bivol (21-0, 11 KOs) scored the upset to hand Canelo his second career defeat in a rout. That was Alvarez's second fight at 175 pounds, and afterward, he returned to defend his four 168-pound titles with a victory over rival Gennadiy Golovkin to close out their trilogy.

Canelo said on Thursday that he's only interested in the rematch taking place at 175 pounds, while Bivol told ESPN that he will only accept the return bout for Alvarez's undisputed championship at 168 pounds.

«I want the same terms, the same everything as the last fight,» Canelo, 32, told ESPN. «But right now, I'm focused 100% on John Rider because he's boxing, and you never know. But the goal is to have the rematch with Bivol in the same terms. ...

»I think I'm better than him — that's it. If you see the first five rounds, six rounds, I dominate the fight. But then I get tired, of course, because I don't train at my 100%."

Alvarez said he dealt with a nagging left wrist injury while training for his November 2021 fight with Caleb Plant, an 11th-round KO victory to become undisputed champion. That ailment lingered throughout his fights vs. Bivol and GGG last year to the point, Alvarez said, where it pained