Canelo Alvarez claims his opponent Edgar Berlanga can’t beat him and that he’s already victorious forward of their combat on Saturday, September 14th, on the T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas.
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It’s comprehensible why Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs) is so certain of victory. He has the expertise, expertise, and boxing IQ to make this a straightforward combat on Saturday night time in opposition to the unbeaten challenger Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs).
Most would agree that Berlanga, 27, wanted extra seasoning and wasn’t prepared but to problem Canelo or face any of the gifted contenders. He pushed for the combat, and his promoters at Matchroom obliged him.
Berlanga could have understood that he could not have ever gotten this shot if he needed to combat the highest contenders to get the wanted expertise as a result of he’d had a variety of bother in fights in opposition to Jason Quigley, Roamier Alexis Angulo, Marcelo Coceres and Steve Rolls.
“No, no likelihood. The expertise I’ve, the intelligence, my boxing skill, I’ve already received, September 14th,” stated Canelo Alvarez to Premier Boxing Champions.
Followers aren’t stunned that Canelo is assured of profitable as a result of he picked out Berlanga and clearly vetted him earlier than making the choice to make sure that he was a protected, beatable selection. If he had doubts, he possible wouldn’t have chosen him.
At this stage of Canelo’s profession, he’s selective. He’s now not preventing harmful opposition like he did years in the past when he fought Gennadiy Golovkin and Miguel Cotto.
Canelo will defend his WBA, WBC, and WBO tremendous middleweight titles in opposition to Berlanga reside on DAZN PPV. Berlanga is Canelo’s WBA obligatory after beating Padraig McCrory earlier this 12 months in February.
“I see him throwing photographs at folks’s arms,” Berlanga stated. “He began doing that when he began preventing greater fighters; break the arms down so within the later rounds he can simply begin connecting. That’s his methodology on a regular basis.”
Canelo wasn’t throwing a variety of punches to the arms of John Ryder, Jermell Charlo, or Jaime Munguia. He was throwing largely headshots in these fights.
