LAS VEGAS – The winner between Saturday night’s super fight featuring undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford will have highly credible mandatory challengers waiting in the wings.

Jose Resendiz secured his spot in May by scoring an upset decision win against Caleb Plant for the WBA interim title. Osleys Iglesias landed his position as the IBF’s No. 1 challenger during a title eliminator and stoppage win against Vladimir Shishkin earlier this month.

The Alvarez-Crawford undercard features WBC interim champion Christian Mbilli taking on Lester Martinez.

Sitting pretty holding two of the cards and cornering the 168-pound market is Canadian promoter and head of Eye of the Tiger Management, Camille Estephan, who represents Iglesias and Mbilli.

“With Iglesias and Mbilli, we have quite a duo of the top super middleweights in the world,” Estephan told The Ring. “I feel that both of them are going to create a lot of damage for years to come. We're very happy to be in this amazing position with two of our fighters.”

Estephan was front and center on Wednesday, sitting next to Turki Alalshikh during a fight card at the Fontainebleau, certainly playing his cards and warming up Alalshikh to the idea of Iglesias and Mbilli.

Estephan would love to offer his two top studs to the winner instead of putting them in against each other, but he also understands that there could be a line of other credible contenders, and standing firmly in the way is Hamzah Sheeraz, following a prolific knockout win against Edgar Berlanga.

Sheeraz, The Ring’s No. 6-rated 168-pound fighter, will be ringside in Las Vegas as a highly interested observer.

On “Inside The Ring,” Alalshikh said he anticipates Alvarez fighting again by February or March in Saudi Arabia and is interested in extending Alvarez’s four-fight deal by two more fights into 2027.

A shot for Sheeraz could certainly be in store.

Perhaps Saturday night’s winner’s hand for targeting a future foe could be forced by a sanctioning body, as was the case last year when Alvarez vacated his IBF title to fight Berlanga, which opened the door for William Scull to step in and seize the title and eventually land a fight with the Mexican star.

WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman told The Ring that in reality there is no rotation system or anything which would dictate the mandatories for the winner of Saturday’s super fight.

“The WBC has a firm commitment to maintaining undisputed champions and only have mandatories when such a challenger is of the highest level possible, and when the mandate has been made known to everyone,” Sulaiman told The Ring.

“Needless to say the other organizations handle their own affairs differently and regrettably, there is no common agreement between the four [major sanctioning bodies]."

Mbilli, meanwhile, understands the task at hand – beat Martinez on Saturday and look spectacular doing so to gain traction toward a shot at the winner. After all, Alvarez’s coach and manager Eddy Reynoso has previously shortlisted Mbilli as a potential future opponent.

“It's a very interesting fight. I believe Canelo is going to win. But Crawford has a chance, too,” Mbilli told The Ring. “Crawford has all of the abilities. I think Crawford will win the first four to six rounds. But Canelo can knock him out as each round goes after that. Canelo will break him down. You can't move that many divisions to beat a real super middleweight.”

Iglesias believes he’s the boogeyman and that Alvarez won’t be fighting him anytime soon after sending another message to the division with his impressive win over Shishkin.

“It's going to be an entertaining and complicated fight,” Iglesias told The Ring. “Canelo is not going to give Crawford a lot of chances. It depends on what he will allow Crawford to do.

"I think Canelo is going to adapt more to the fight than Crawford. Moving up in weight too much can catch up on you during the fight. Canelo gets more comfortable as the fight goes on. I give Canelo a 75 percent chance of winning. Both guys are smart with great technique, but I think Canelo can pull out a win in a difficult fight.”