By Joe Hughes – Boxing Information on-line columnist
SAUL ‘CANELO’ ALVAREZ returns this weekend in opposition to Puerto Rican Edgar Berlanga.
It’s a combat nobody outdoors of Staff Berlanga have been significantly clamouring to see previous to it being introduced. It’ll almost definitely be one other straight ahead victory for the Mexican who defends his three super-middleweight titles.
Berlanga hasn’t fought at anyplace close to the extent that Alvarez has and on paper lacks the massive combat expertise to be a severe menace to Canelo. The champion’s previous few matchups have been fairly straight ahead for him however his performances haven’t been fairly on the stage they have been within the mid to late 2010’s when he moved from super-welterweight to light-heavyweight.
Canelo will not be the drive he was when he first unified the super-middleweight division and father time ultimately catches as much as everybody. The good Mexican will ultimately fall into these clutches however the query is when?
There are not any actually large fights left for him at 168lbs now David Benavidez has moved as much as light-heavyweight. So, will he proceed defending his titles as many instances as he can or will he transfer up and take one other shot at 175lbs the place he has one win and one defeat?
A match up in opposition to the winner of Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beterbiev is one thing the formidable Alvarez may goal if he comes although this weekend. He can be a giant underdog in opposition to both, he’s already misplaced to Bivol, however it could be the final likelihood for certainly one of boxing’s greatest stars of the final decade to be concerned in a matchup the magnitude of which might befit his profession.
The beginner boxing membership I assist coach at, Paddy John’s ABC, have their first present of the season on Saturday, September 21.
I’m the membership’s match maker so I’ve been spending plenty of time lately attempting to rearrange the combat card. It’s a reasonably irritating job at instances and a number of the matchups appear to vary on almost a each day foundation. We’ve got just a few boxers that may be fairly laborious to match however fingers crossed I can get them one thing.
