Canelo Alvarez predicts a knockout win over Edgar Berlanga on Saturday night time of their struggle on PPV. That’s a KO that he needs to offer to his followers on Mexican Independence Day tomorrow night time, and we’ll see if he can ship towards his opponent, Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs).
If Canelo goes to attempt to knock Berlanga out, he must do it early reasonably than carrying him to entertain the followers. He claims that he carried his final opponent, Jaime Munguia, as a result of he needed to offer the individuals one thing to take a look at. Berlanga hits too exhausting for Canelo to purposefully enable to hold aorund.
What’s attention-grabbing is that followers are speaking extra concerning the undercard than they’re about the principle occasion between unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs) as a result of they really feel that it’s a executed deal that he’s going to defeat Berlanga.
Canelo wouldn’t have had this downside if he had chosen an opponent that followers believed would have a very good likelihood of beating him, like David Benavidez. His excuse for not combating Benavidez is that he’s already fought all people, and if they need him to take that struggle, they should pay. So, as an alternative of getting him, Berlanga is the man, and hopefully, he could make a very good struggle of it on the T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas.
“I’ll,” stated Canelo to the media, guaranteeing a knockout win over Edgar Berlanga on Saturday.
“Do you assume Berlanga is the kind of puncher that Canelo hasn’t confronted but? You assume Golovkin, Kovalev, and Kirkland?” stated Chris Mannix on his podcast, asking Eddie Hearn if he thinks Edgar Berlanga is an even bigger puncher than anybody Canelo Alvarez has confronted throughout his 19-year profession.
“I don’t assume Munguia punches as exhausting as Berlanga. Bivol, the way in which he was combating, I don’t assume he was trying to land huge photographs on Canelo Alvarez. [Jermell] Charlo, no. Plant, no. That’s why he’s been selecting these fights these days,” stated Eddie Hearn.
It may not come right down to how exhausting Berlanga hits however reasonably how nicely he can take the photographs coming again at him from Canelo. Berlanga has been damage in sparring by Erickson Lubin and dropped by Marcelo Coceres within the professional ranks.
“He doesn’t need somebody that runs. That’s why I don’t assume he’s within the Crawford struggle, both,” stated Hearn.” The very last thing he needs is somebody working across the ring, making an attempt to steal rounds off him. Sadly, when you’re going to win the struggle, you need to take probabilities.
“The issue is once you take probabilities, Canelo can also be an amazing counterpunch,” stated Hearn.
