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 recreation at age 34? Has Canelo’s status suffered because of the means he has “ducked” David Benavidez? Are YOU enthusiastic about this Saturday’s battle 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 break up in place, this between Canelo supporters and Canelo ‘haters?’ – or critics. Sure, Canelo ought to be combating 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 folks have actually laid into the battle – Oscar De La Hoya for one – with these of us saying the battle will bomb on the box-office. When it comes to Canelo’s hugesly succesful fights, perhaps this Saturday’s providing will pull in rooster feed PPV buys by comparability. However will Canelo care? Does Canelo care at this stage being one other query that could possibly be requested of him? Canelo says what he needs and he does what he needs. He has earned the best, too.
So we glance forward, and attempt to get pumped up concerning the battle 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 battle, is at all times value watching (that PPV price will sting, nonetheless), and we might really get a very good battle on Saturday. For certain, Berlanga, unbeaten and a person who began off his profession with an eye catching string of first spherical KO wins, is speaking an amazing battle.
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 battle followers “a brand new face.”
Canelo has mentioned he’ll cast off 27 yr outdated Berlanga inside eight rounds. Whereas Berlanga has merely said he’ll “knock Canelo the f**ok out!” Each males appear fairly pumped up, even when loads of followers will not be so juiced up. However once more, this battle might shock us by being an all-action affair. For certain, 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 specialists assume Berlanga’s bext shot is to go for the KO, perhaps the beautiful, fast KO.
Berlanga can’t outbox Canelo, the considering 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 going through 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 every thing in boxing, with good fighters, sturdy fighters, I ready for that, we’re prepared and on Saturday you’ll see an amazing battle.”
If Saturday’s battle does grow to be an attractive, enjoyable slugfest, even for just a few rounds, it could 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 battle isn’t 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 a variety of large speak to reside as much as right here, but on the identical time, has he actually obtained 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, abruptly? When it comes to making Saturday’s battle a very good battle, perhaps even an amazing battle, let’s hope so.
