Canelo Alvarez weighed in at 166.8 lbs whereas Challenger Edgar Berlanga got here in at 167.7 lbs at Friday’s weigh-in forward of their predominant occasion combat this Saturday, September 14th on the $89.99 occasion, stay on DAZN PPV.
That is presupposed to be a mismatch in favor of WBA, WBC, and WBO tremendous middleweight champion Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs), however given Berlanga’s dimension, youth, and energy (22-0, 17 KOs), we may see an upset.
This can be a massive puncher Canelo shall be dealing with, and he’s not needed to combat anybody with this sort of energy in a very long time since his match in opposition to Sergey Kovalev in November 2019.
I dare say Berlanga is a much bigger puncher than the 36-year-old Kovalev was again then as a result of ‘The Krusher’ regarded fairly outdated, and it took quite a bit out of him making weight for that combat.;
Berlanga regarded monstrously massive in comparison with the 5’8″ Canelo throughout their face-off, and it’s fairly clear that the Mexican star has a giant drawback with this mild heavyweight-sized fighter. Like many youthful fighters, Berlanga remains to be able to draining all the way down to combat in a weight class under his dimension.
The man needs to be up there with the 175-pounders, like Artur Beterbiev, Dmitry Bivol, and David Benavidez, fairly than feasting on smaller fighters at 168.
Nothing was stated about Canelo inserting a hidden 10-lb rehydration clause within the contract, which suggests Berlanga can balloon as much as 190 lbs and revel in an enormous dimension benefit on Saturday evening. If Canelo goes to win this combat, he’s going to want to shell out in the course of the early going whereas Berlanga bombards him with heavy pictures that may knock a truck over.
Canelo does a very good job of overlaying up, however Berlanga likes throwing chopping pictures to the highest of his opponent’s heads, and people are going to be subsequent to unattainable for the Mexican star to dam.
Don’t be stunned if Berlanga knocks out Canelo as a result of he’s bought the scale, energy, and elegance to attain a KO on this combat.
