Canelo Alvarez predicts a knockout win over Edgar Berlanga on Saturday night time of their struggle on PPV. That’s a KO that he desires to provide 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 try 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 wished to provide the folks one thing to have a look at. Berlanga hits too laborious for Canelo to purposefully enable to hold aorund.
What’s fascinating 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 achieved 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 superb likelihood of beating him, like David Benavidez. His excuse for not combating Benavidez is that he’s already fought everyone, and if they need him to take that struggle, they need to pay. So, as an alternative of getting him, Berlanga is the man, and hopefully, he could make a superb struggle of it on the T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas.
“I’ll,” mentioned Canelo to the media, guaranteeing a knockout win over Edgar Berlanga on Saturday.
“Do you suppose Berlanga is the kind of puncher that Canelo hasn’t confronted but? You suppose Golovkin, Kovalev, and Kirkland?” mentioned 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 suppose Munguia punches as laborious as Berlanga. Bivol, the way in which he was combating, I don’t suppose he was seeking to land large pictures on Canelo Alvarez. [Jermell] Charlo, no. Plant, no. That’s why he’s been selecting these fights currently,” mentioned Eddie Hearn.
It won’t come all the way down to how laborious Berlanga hits however reasonably how effectively he can take the pictures 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 suppose he’s within the Crawford struggle, both,” mentioned Hearn.” The very last thing he desires is somebody working across the ring, making an attempt to steal rounds off him. Sadly, in the event you’re going to win the struggle, it’s a must to take probabilities.
“The issue is while you take probabilities, Canelo can also be an excellent counterpunch,” mentioned Hearn.
