By Jeff Powell For Mailonline
Published: 01:00 BST, 7 May 2019 | Updated: 01:00 BST, 7 May 2019
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The Cinnamon Kid, having given the Miracle Man a Sweet Science tutorial, would like to administer a boxing lesson to our very own Mundo.
If not Callum Smith for both tiers of the WBA super-middleweight title, Canelo Alvarez hankers after becoming Mexico's first undisputed four-belt world champion.
That would require adding the WBO middleweight title currently held by Demetrius Andrade to the IBF crown of which he relieved miraculous cancer survivor Daniel Jacobs on Saturday night, as well as the WBC and WBA versions which were already in his possession.
Canelo Alvarez celebrates his win over Daniel Jacobs last weekend in Las Vegas
Alternatively Canelo - Spanish for cinnamon - fancies he can defy size and gravity by ascending all the way to the pantheon of four-division world champions by crushing the Krusher himself, light-heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev.
There are impediments, however, to all those ambitions. Which means we might get the fight we all really want to see.
Namely: Canelo's third encounter of the controversial kind with Gennady Golovkin, to decide which of them truly is the greatest middleweight on the planet.
The problem with Smith, holder of the WBA super-middleweight title proper, is that the big attraction for Canelo would be to fight him at Wembley Stadium. Since the Mexican idol's next performance will be in Las Vegas on his country's Independence Weekend this September, an open-air visit to London could not happen until the middle of next year.
The difficulty with Andrade is that he makes a routine defence of his belt at the end of June, which
