Michael B. Jordan has just announced that professional boxer Canelo Alvarez will be joining the cast of Creed III.

Professional boxer Canelo Alvarez is now set to appear in Creed III, the boxing movie set in the Rocky/Creed franchise and Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut.

The movie’s screenplay will be written by Keenan Coogler and Zach Baylin while the story will be penned by Ryan Coogler, Keenan Coogler, and Zach Baylin collectively.

Alongside Michael B. Jordan and Canelo Alvarez, the movie will star Tessa Thompson, Jonathan Majors, Florian Munteanu, Phylicia Rashad, Selenis Leyva, and Tony Bellew.

“Canelo Alvarez is going to be in Creed III, Michael B Jordan has revealed…”

“DIRECTING THE LEGEND HIMSELF @CANELO IN CREED III. CAN’T WAIT FOR THE WORLD TO SEE ON MARCH 3. A STAR INSIDE THE RING AND OUT…WELCOME TO THE FAMILY. GOOD LUCK THIS WEEKEND!”

The movie’s star, Michael B. Jordan, who plays Adonis Creed, recently had a wax sculpture made in his image. It was publicly displayed and it’s likely that Jordan wishes it hadn’t been.

An image has circulated on Twitter of a fan posing with the huge wax statue, which barely resembles the Creed star. The skin colour, for one thing, is considerably lighter than Jordan’s. “They made Michael B Jordan a light skin dominican,” mocked someone. “Looks like Michael B Hernandez,” laughed someone else.

Other people thought the waxwork looked much more like other celebrities, including Chicago Bulls legend Scottie Pippen, golfer Tiger Woods, and Boston Celtics player Jayson Tatum. Anyone but Michael B. Jordan, basically. The best comment, though, has to be this: “That’s Michael Can’t B Jordan,” joked Dr. Raven the Science Maven.

From woeful waxworks to bad breakups, Jordan’s been having a rough time recently. The actor broke up with Lori Harvey after a year-and-a-half of dating, with Jordan’s anguished face painfully caught on camera at a basketball game following the relationship ending.

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