Oscar De La Hoya instructed us all that he wouldn’t be watching final night time’s combat between his former fighter/buddy Canelo Alvarez and Edgar Berlanga, that he would as an alternative be attending Dana White’s UFC gig down the street in Vegas. De La Hoya additionally instructed we combat followers to avoid wasting our dough and never pay to look at the person he used to advertise interact in what he predicted could be “one other lame ass combat.”
Nicely, it seems De La Hoya was mistaken, with final night time’s combat being a enjoyable combat, an thrilling combat, and a combat that instructed us loads about Canelo and Berlanga. Canelo appeared higher than he has executed in a while, despite the fact that he didn’t get the specified KO. This had a heck of quite a bit to do with the truth that “The Chosen One,” as Berlanga is nicknamed, has one heck of chin, and a few actual combating coronary heart. It was in brief combat, one value watching.
Berlanga confirmed he’s for actual and he can come once more, whereas Canelo, at age 34, confirmed he nonetheless has loads of hearth in his stomach. What comes subsequent for Canelo we’re all eager to seek out out – will it’s a return combat with Dmitry Bivol (if Bivol defeats Artur Beterbiev subsequent month), or may it’s Terence Crawford (who was there final night time on the T-Cellular and known as Canelo out after the Mexican star had pounded out his UD win over Berlanga?) Or will it’s another person on Cinco de Mayo? Once more, we’ll wait and see, however Canelo, for now, stays the face of boxing.
However De La Hoya launched into Canelo after final night time’s combat, with the Golden Boy head adopting an ‘I instructed you so’ method. De La Hoya suggests final night time’s combat was boring and a waste of cash.
“I instructed you so. You must have saved your heard earned cash,” De La Hoya wrote on social media, with a number of sleeping emojis hooked up to his phrases. “Wow so he threw greater than 3 punches a spherical.”
In reality, Canelo threw a heck of much more than three punches a spherical, his energy punch join at 50 -percent at one stage within the combat. However De La Hoya can’t give Canelo any credit score in any respect, and consequently the previous multi-weight champ comes throughout as bitter, very bitter. It’s a disgrace. De La Hoya used to have extra class than this.
If De La Hoya had been selling final night time’s combat, if he was nonetheless with Canelo, he would little doubt have been telling us all in the present day what an excellent occasion he placed on. However in the present day, and seemingly all the time, De La Hoya and Canelo are sworn enemies.
What do YOU assume – was final night time’s Canelo W12 Berlanga combat a snoozer or a doozy?
