Canelo Alvarez has scrapped his plans to fight in September after talks with Caleb Plant collapsed.
Mexico’s pound-for-pound king has run through the super-middleweight division like a steam train since returning to 168lbs in December.
Canelo dominated Callum Smith to take his WBA title and win the vacant WBC.
He then battered overmatched mandatory Avni Yildirim in February and stopped Billy Joe Saunders by breaking his eye socket in May.
With the Saunders win, Canelo became a three-belt WBA, WBC and WBO champion, needing just the IBF to be fully undisputed.
Step forward current champion Caleb Plant.
Talks were progressing well with a deal close for the bout, only for discussions to hit a late snag over requests from the Mexican which Plant's representatives did not find acceptable.
With Plant out of the picture, Canelo moved on to talks with WBA light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol and, again, a deal was close.
However, he has now decided to push his date back to November and so talks with Plant have been reignited as they seek a solution to their impasse.
Due to his free agent status, the 31-year-old has been able to compete on whichever network he chooses since his release from Golden Boy last year.
Canelo has worked with Eddie Hearn on DAZN for the Smith, Yildirim and Saunders fights.
It's likely he will jump over and work with Al Haymon’s PBC on FOX PPV to face Plant.
Elsewhere, Vasyl Lomachenko is planning his next fight.
Loma was unexpectedly dethroned by Teofimo Lopez last October and returned to the ring in June by beating Masayoshi Nakatani.
He'd hoped for a rematch at the end of this year, but Lopez caught COVID and so has had to push back his mandatory defence against George Kambosos Jr.
According to ESPN, Loma is now in 'advanced talks' for a fight with Richard Commey on Dec 11.
Victory would likely set up the Lopez rematch for spring 2022.
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