Jaime Munguia known as out Caleb Plant and Edgar Berlanga following his tenth-round knockout victory over Erik Bazinyan (32-1 23 KOs) in the principle occasion final Friday evening on the Desert Diamond Enviornment in Glendale, Arizona.
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Munguia (44-1, 35 KOs) desires a giant identify to get ranked excessive and place himself for one more world title problem. Beating Plant or Plant could be a superb strategy to rise to the highest and get a rematch with unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez.
The previous WBO junior middleweight champion Munguia additionally talked about desirous to struggle #1 WBC-ranked Christian Mbilli. Nonetheless, he’s coming off an damage from his current struggle in opposition to Sergiy Derevyanchenko, and he reportedly solely desires to problem for a world title in opposition to Canelo subsequent. Mbilli has already earned his world title shot. It wouldn’t make sense for him to place that spot in danger in opposition to Munguia.
These two fighters could be dangerous for Munguia (44-1, 35 KOs), who had issues with Bazinyan’s jab and occasional punch outbursts final evening. Combating the large puncher Berlanga or the expert boxer Plant could be troublesome for Munguia from what he confirmed in opposition to Bazinyan.
Plant had talked about desirous to struggle Munguia subsequent after his current victory over Trevor McCumby on September 14th. It will be a superb struggle for the followers.
“There are nice issues to come back, nice fights at 168 kilos. There’s Caleb Plant, Berlanga, Christian Mbilli. There are nice fights, and we’ll give nice wars as effectively,” mentioned Munguia when interviewed after his win over Bazinyan.
Berlanga’s administration will probably cross up on Munguia’s supply as a result of he’s anticipated to take a tune-up struggle subsequent in early 2025 in New York or Puerto Rico to rebuild after his loss to Canelo on September 14th.
Going from shedding to Canelo in a punishing struggle to dealing with a giant puncher like Munguia wouldn’t be a sensible transfer for Berlanga.
Of the three fighters that Munguia known as out, Plant (23-2, 14 KOs) is essentially the most reasonable one in every of that can take him up on the supply. Caleb Plant wants a win like that to extend his probabilities of getting a profitable rematch in opposition to Canelo. In 2021, the previous IBF tremendous middleweight champion Plant was knocked out by Alvarez within the eleventh spherical.
That loss for Plant makes it vital for him to get a giant win over a reputation fighter like Munguia to strengthen his place for a rematch in opposition to Canelo. Plant’s current victory over the little identified McCumby wasn’t a sufficiently big one to encourage Canelo to struggle him once more.
