Former WBC junior light-weight titleholder Miguel Berchelt is present process a step-by-step comeback after back-to-back defeats in 2021 and 2022.
The 32-year-old will now face Jeremy Triana at light-weight on the Recinto Ferial de Tlaxcala, Mexico and shall be broadcast on TV Azteca on Saturday.
“It is going to be a wonderful struggle at any time when the “El Alacran” Berchelt fights it’s a assure of spectacle,” Berchelt (39-3, 35 knockouts) instructed The Ring via his handler Mario Abraham of Max Boxing.
The ability-punching Mexican was on prime of the world however yielded his WBC crown to Oscar Valdez (KO 10) after which in his light-weight debut got here unstuck in opposition to Jeremiah Nakathila (RTD 6).
He then took off 19-months earlier than he returned at a decrease degree in opposition to Diego Ruiz (RTD 2) final October.
Berchelt is wanting ahead and never letting the 2 harrowing defeats cloud what has been a productive profession.
“It’s at all times good to take a while and much more so whether it is for your self, however the warrior at all times wants battles to win,” he mentioned. “The previous is the previous, the current is a very powerful factor as a result of the longer term is determined by it and I’m targeted on this struggle.”
Whereas it’s a sluggish course of at this level, Berchelt nonetheless has aspirations of as soon as once more dinning on the highest desk of boxing.
“I hope to return to grow to be a champion,” he mentioned. “It’s troublesome, sure, it will likely be exhausting to however something can occur.”
Abraham is defending his fighter, who he has labored with for his complete profession and desires to verify he’s able to going through one of the best earlier than he lets him in on the deep finish.
“He’s attempting very exhausting to return to the massive fights, I hope this struggle will let you know how he’s,” mentioned Abraham. “Now we have had some proposals in USA however I refused them. I wish to be certain he is able to be there once more. We don’t wish to be somebody’s stepping stone.”
Berchelt nonetheless maintains his fearsome energy and I anticipate that to be an excessive amount of for Triana and permit him to attain a stoppage in round three or four-rounds.
Triana (15-5-3, 13 KOs) turned skilled in his native Colombia in 2016. He gained six of his first seven fights (the lone blemish was a draw) however misplaced his unbeaten document to Placido Ramirez (KO 8). The 31-year-old has held Juan Huertas (acquainted to American audiences for loses to Gary Antuanne Russell, Miguel Madueno and Shohjahon Ergashev) to a draw.
Since then his type has grow to be patchy and has misplaced a number of occasions, although he’s now on a four-fight unbeaten streak.
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