Canelo Alvarez predicts a knockout win over Edgar Berlanga on Saturday evening of their struggle on PPV. That’s a KO that he needs to offer to his followers on Mexican Independence Day tomorrow evening, and we’ll see if he can ship in opposition to his opponent, Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs).
If Canelo goes to attempt to knock Berlanga out, he must do it early relatively than carrying him to entertain the followers. He claims that he carried his final opponent, Jaime Munguia, as a result of he wished to offer the folks one thing to take a look at. Berlanga hits too laborious for Canelo to purposefully enable to hold aorund.
What’s attention-grabbing is that followers are speaking extra concerning the undercard than they’re about the principle occasion between unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs) as a result of they really feel that it’s a executed deal that he’s going to defeat Berlanga.
Canelo wouldn’t have had this downside if he had chosen an opponent that followers believed would have a great likelihood of beating him, like David Benavidez. His excuse for not combating Benavidez is that he’s already fought everyone, and if they need him to take that struggle, they need to pay. So, as a substitute of getting him, Berlanga is the man, and hopefully, he could make a great struggle of it on the T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas.
“I’ll,” stated Canelo to the media, guaranteeing a knockout win over Edgar Berlanga on Saturday.
“Do you assume Berlanga is the kind of puncher that Canelo hasn’t confronted but? You assume Golovkin, Kovalev, and Kirkland?” stated Chris Mannix on his podcast, asking Eddie Hearn if he thinks Edgar Berlanga is a much bigger puncher than anybody Canelo Alvarez has confronted throughout his 19-year profession.
“I don’t assume Munguia punches as laborious as Berlanga. Bivol, the best way he was combating, I don’t assume he was trying to land huge pictures on Canelo Alvarez. [Jermell] Charlo, no. Plant, no. That’s why he’s been selecting these fights currently,” stated Eddie Hearn.
It won’t come all the way down to how laborious Berlanga hits however relatively how nicely he can take the pictures coming again at him from Canelo. Berlanga has been harm in sparring by Erickson Lubin and dropped by Marcelo Coceres within the professional ranks.
“He doesn’t need somebody that runs. That’s why I don’t assume he’s within the Crawford struggle, both,” stated Hearn.” The very last thing he needs is somebody working across the ring, attempting to steal rounds off him. Sadly, should you’re going to win the struggle, it’s a must to take probabilities.
“The issue is while you take probabilities, Canelo can be an amazing counterpunch,” stated Hearn.
