Canelo Alvarez’s Subsequent title protection for his undisputed tremendous middleweight championship could possibly be both Edgar Berlanga or Jermall Charlo on September 14th or a couple of weeks later.
In response to ChavaESPN, the famous person Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs) may face Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs) or the previous two-division world champion Charlo (33-0, 22 KOs).
Charlo: The Most popular Tune-Up?
The selection may come right down to which of the 2 Canelo and his supervisor, Eddy Reynoso, feels could be the higher preparation for a mega-fight towards Terence Crawford.
On condition that the 27-year-old Berlanga is an easy, straight-ahead brute fighter with out a lot technical capacity, counting on measurement and energy, he could be a poor tune-up for Canelo. Jermall is the much better tune-up for Canelo if he fights Crawford in his subsequent contest.
Jermall, 34, lately got here off a 2.5-year layoff to defeat Jose Benavidez Jr. by a lopsided twelve-round unanimous choice final November in Las Vegas. It was a good efficiency by Charlo, who many felt would look unhealthy, however he seemed fairly good for a fighter coming off a protracted hole.
Charlo has lately been seen coaching, which signifies that his administration has informed him to start getting ready for the potential struggle towards Canelo in September.
Edgar Berlanga believes he’ll be Canelo’s subsequent opponent, and he’s talked about it lately in interviews, speaking about “getting that bag.”
Numerous followers on social media really feel that Berlanga solely needs the payday and doesn’t consider he has any likelihood of successful however could be in it to get retirement cash.
They don’t see him as being prepared for a title shot towards Canelo, which would appear apparent, given how the New Yorker has seemed towards the low-level oppoiosition promoters had matched towards him. They haven’t taken any probabilities with Berlanga by placing him in with high quality opposition.
If Berlanga loses, he’ll possible slip again into obscurity and turn into meals for one of many gifted contenders, corresponding to David Benavidez, Caleb Plant, Diego Pacheco, or Christian Mbilli.
