How you can react to Edgar Berlanga’s latest message on social media, wherein the 168 pounder stated he would very very like to “take a look at greatness” by preventing former two-time heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua!? Berlanga – if he’s severe, actually severe – desires to step in with Joshua, with the latest Canelo factors loser saying he might enter the ring at 210 kilos.
Right here’s Berlanga’s message on X in full:
“I’d like to go as much as heavyweight and combat Anthony Joshua to check greatness. There’s nothing dangerous about this. I’ll stroll within the ring at 210lbs.”
Little doubt many followers, maybe virtually all of them, will immediately dismiss this as mere, foolish discuss from Berlanga. And would Berlanga have written what he’s written if Joshua had not been smashed so violently by Daniel Dubois? Joshua’s inventory certain has fallen if a super-middleweight is asking him out, that’s for certain.
However Berlanga is a tall man at 6’1” – certainly, that’s fairly tall for a 168 pounder. 168 pounder? We should keep in mind how Berlanga entered the ring for the Canelo combat at 193 kilos, and the 27-year-old carried the burden nicely. Perhaps Berlanga can combat successfully at 210 kilos. However towards Joshua? Okay, the combat has subsequent to no likelihood of truly happening; what would AJ achieve from a win over Berlanga, whereas how completely cataclysmic would a loss to Berlanga be for AJ!?
It gained’t occur, and once more, we don’t understand how severe Berlanga was, or is, on this matter. Some followers have already had a subject day with this one, suggesting that Canelo should have hit Berlanga approach more durable than we thought was the case on the night time. Curiously, Berlanga shouldn’t be the primary “small man” to specific curiosity in preventing Joshua. Earlier than he retired, Andre Ward stated he felt in all seriousness that he might defeat Joshua.
After all, that combat by no means occurred, however to at the present time, some folks say Ward was lethal severe about what he stated.
Getting again to Berlanga and his subsequent combat might be of massive curiosity to combat followers. Berlanga managed to hold robust with Canelo, and he had some success in a few rounds. Perhaps Berlanga can go on to change into a world champion sooner or later, and maybe he has the peak, attain, and bodily density to have the ability to compete at light-heavyweight, perhaps even cruiserweight sooner or later. However heavyweight? Come on.
It’s important to admire Berlanga’s confidence, although, and his potential to draw consideration and make headlines. Don’t you?