4-belt 168-lb champion Canelo Alvarez and challenger Edgar Berlanga are finishing the ending touches to a combat on September 14th on Mexican Independence Day within the twin broadcast occasion on DAZN and Prime Video PPV for the T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Canelo-Berlanga occasion will compete with UFC 306 on the identical night time in Las Vegas at The Sphere. Berlanga might be a great foil for Canelo, who will play the villain function within the promotion resulting from followers intensely disliking him.
Relatively than Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs) permitting the UFC to take his Mexican Independence Day weekend for a second consecutive yr, he’s chosen Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs) as his opponent to compete in opposition to Dana White’s firm.
That’s not good for Canelo or the UFC. If Canelo actually needed to mess with the UFC, he’d have chosen David Benavidez, which might have impacted Dana’s firm’s income that night time.
In keeping with Mike Coppinger, PBC would be the lead promoter, and Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing even be concerned. Matchroom promotes WBA necessary Berlanga. Canelo is with PBC for this combat.
Canelo-Berlanga isn’t one which followers are enthusiastic about as a result of they needed to see Canelo combat David Benavidez, who has been ready for an opportunity to combat Canelo for a few years. He’s Canelo’s #1 ranked WBC necessary and the one man within the 168-lb division thought to have an opportunity of beating him.
Berlanga is unbeaten however not seen as an amazing expertise. He’s seen as a fighter who has been matched strategically by his earlier promoters at High Rank and his present administration, Matchroom.
The Canelo vs. Berlanga matchup might be a Mexico vs. Puerto Rico contest. Berlanga is assured that his Puerto Rican followers in New York will order his combat in opposition to Canelo in excessive numbers. He’s predicting the occasion will herald 1 million PPV buys.
If that’s the case, that might be unimaginable as a result of Canelo hasn’t introduced in these numbers since his first two fights in opposition to Gennadiy Golovkin. Followers aren’t anticipated to be very curious about Canelo vs. Berlanga.
At this time, Canelo is receiving large criticism on social media concerning the information of him finalizing a combat with Berlanga as a result of followers view the New Yorker as phony and an inferior fighter with no wins over high quality opposition.
Watching Berlanga battle in opposition to 39-year-old Roamier Alexis Angulo, Steve Rolls and Marcelo Coceres, his three greatest opponents, it’s comprehensible why followers are so offended that Canelo is combating him. Berlanga appeared terrible in these fights.
STOP HATING IT’S BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH 💰 pic.twitter.com/hjc8zhu3NM
— Edgar Berlanga Jr (@EdgarBerlangaJr) July 22, 2024
