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Steel City Interactive's eSports Boxing Club has already received a lot of buzz amongst sports video game fans, and the new game might go a lot more than after the programmer'due south latest annunciation. Steel Urban center has already locked up the rights to several superstar boxers from the past, including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Joe Louis, and Roy Jones Jr. On May 24, the British-based programmer unveiled the latest boxer to exist added to the game: Canelo Alvarez.

Mexican super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez is the latest boxer to be confirmed for eSports Boxing Club. Alvarez (55-1-2, 38 KOs) has been 1 of the sport's biggest and best names over the past few years, and at present thanks to this announcement, boxing fans tin expect the middleweight sensation to come to the virtual ring.

This announcement is significant, Alvarez is arguably the best active boxer to exist added to the game's roster upwardly to this bespeak. As mentioned earlier, Steel Urban center has locked up the rights to many big-fourth dimension boxers from the past. Calculation an active boxer of this magnitude should get more eyeballs interested in the game and wash abroad at least some of the worries that individuals might have had about this title. There are, however, nonetheless some questions that linger for eSports Battle Club.

There is still no set release date for the game, nor its early admission version. Steel City has been adamant that it does not want to rush out the game, but the developer did land back in April that it was making good progress towards its initial goal of releasing the early access version one-time in the summer of 2022. The complete edition, as of this writing, is still slated to launch later this year.