Is Mexican famous person Canelo Alvarez nonetheless ‘the face of boxing?’ Is Canelo nonetheless a fighter to revere, respect and admire in spades? Is Canelo nonetheless on prime of his sport at age 34? Has Canelo’s repute suffered as a result of approach he has “ducked” David Benavidez? Are YOU enthusiastic about this Saturday’s combat between Canelo and Edgar Berlanga?
There could also be extra questions you might be asking of Canelo proper about now, because it does appear there’s a agency cut up in place, this between Canelo supporters and Canelo ‘haters?’ – or critics. Sure, Canelo needs to be preventing the person who referred to as him out, taunted him, questioned his Mexican warriorship, this in fact Benavidez. But when Canelo has ducked Benavidez, he’s removed from the primary nice champion/famous person to have swerved an undesirable opponent.
And so we get Canelo-Berlanga on Mexican Indendance Day weekend. Loads of individuals have actually laid into the combat – Oscar De La Hoya for one – with these of us saying the combat will bomb on the box-office. By way of Canelo’s hugesly succesful fights, perhaps this Saturday’s providing will pull in hen feed PPV buys by comparability. However will Canelo care? Does Canelo care at this stage being one other query that may very well be requested of him? Canelo says what he desires and he does what he desires. He has earned the suitable, too.
So we glance forward, and attempt to get pumped up in regards to the combat that may go down on the T-Cell in Vegas just a few days from now. Canelo, even when he isn’t giving us the cream of match-ups with this combat, is at all times price watching (that PPV payment will sting, nevertheless), and we may really get a very good combat on Saturday. For positive, Berlanga, unbeaten and a person who began off his profession with an eye catching string of first spherical KO wins, is speaking a terrific combat.
So too is Canelo, who says he’ll enoy punishing Berlangs for the lip service he has been giving him. Each males are predicting a KO win; Canelo in order to place Berlanga in his place and shut him up, Berlanga in order to eliminate Canelo and provides combat followers “a brand new face.”
Canelo has mentioned he’ll eliminate 27 12 months previous Berlanga inside eight rounds. Whereas Berlanga has merely acknowledged he’ll “knock Canelo the f**okay out!” Each males appear fairly pumped up, even when loads of followers aren’t so juiced up. However once more, this combat may shock us by being an all-action affair. For positive, Berlanga is an enormous man (see the 2 stood subsequent to one another and the distinction in measurement is noticable), and Berlanga can punch. Fairly just a few consultants suppose Berlanga’s bext shot is to go for the KO, perhaps the beautiful, fast KO.
Berlanga can’t outbox Canelo, the pondering goes, so the proverbial ‘puncher’s likelihood’ appears to be his greatest shot, his solely shot.
Canelo, 61-2-2(39) says he recognises the hazard in Berlanga, however that dealing with hazard is nothing new to him.
“He’s a younger fighter, he’s is harmful, however it’s nothing new for me,” Canelo advised reporters at a pre-fight presser. “I’ve skilled the whole lot in boxing, with good fighters, sturdy fighters, I ready for that, we’re prepared and on Saturday you’re going to see a terrific combat.”
If Saturday’s combat does transform an enticing, enjoyable slugfest, even for just a few rounds, it might show to be a smack within the face of the critics who’ve so lambasted this match-up. We followers who will likely be tuning in will likely be hoping the motion does warmth up, that the combat will not be a dud, that each males deliver their A-game. However will even Berlanga’s A-game be sufficient to bother Canelo?
Berlanga, 22-0(17) has lots of large discuss to reside as much as right here, but on the identical time, has he actually bought something to lose? He hasn’t, and that may make a fighter a harmful fighter. Can Berlanga catch Canelo, a 65-fight veteran, with one thing, something, without warning? By way of making Saturday’s combat a very good combat, perhaps even a terrific combat, let’s hope so.
