Is Mexican celebrity Canelo Alvarez nonetheless ‘the face of boxing?’ Is Canelo nonetheless a fighter to revere, respect and admire in spades? Is Canelo nonetheless on high of his sport at age 34? Has Canelo’s fame suffered because of the means he has “ducked” David Benavidez? Are YOU enthusiastic about this Saturday’s battle between Canelo and Edgar Berlanga?
There could also be extra questions you’re asking of Canelo proper about now, because it does appear there’s a agency break up in place, this between Canelo supporters and Canelo ‘haters?’ – or critics. Sure, Canelo needs to be combating the person who known as him out, taunted him, questioned his Mexican warriorship, this after all Benavidez. But when Canelo has ducked Benavidez, he’s removed from the primary nice champion/celebrity to have swerved an undesirable opponent.
And so we get Canelo-Berlanga on Mexican Indendance Day weekend. Loads of individuals have actually laid into the battle – Oscar De La Hoya for one – with these people saying the battle will bomb on the box-office. By way of Canelo’s hugesly succesful fights, perhaps this Saturday’s providing will pull in rooster feed PPV buys by comparability. However will Canelo care? Does Canelo care at this stage being one other query that might be requested of him? Canelo says what he needs and he does what he needs. He has earned the precise, too.
So we glance forward, and attempt to get pumped up concerning the battle that can go down on the T-Cellular in Vegas just a few days from now. Canelo, even when he isn’t giving us the cream of match-ups with this battle, is all the time value watching (that PPV charge will sting, nevertheless), and we may really get an excellent battle on Saturday. For certain, Berlanga, unbeaten and a person who began off his profession with an eye catching string of first spherical KO wins, is speaking an important battle.
So too is Canelo, who says he’ll enoy punishing Berlangs for the lip service he has been giving him. Each males are predicting a KO win; Canelo in order to place Berlanga in his place and shut him up, Berlanga in order to eliminate Canelo and provides battle followers “a brand new face.”
Canelo has stated he’ll put off 27 yr outdated Berlanga inside eight rounds. Whereas Berlanga has merely said he’ll “knock Canelo the f**okay out!” Each males appear fairly pumped up, even when loads of followers should not so juiced up. However once more, this battle may shock us by being an all-action affair. For certain, Berlanga is an enormous man (see the 2 stood subsequent to one another and the distinction in measurement is noticable), and Berlanga can punch. Fairly just a few specialists assume Berlanga’s bext shot is to go for the KO, perhaps the gorgeous, fast KO.
Berlanga can not outbox Canelo, the considering goes, so the proverbial ‘puncher’s likelihood’ appears to be his greatest shot, his solely shot.
Canelo, 61-2-2(39) says he recognises the hazard in Berlanga, however that going through hazard is nothing new to him.
“He’s a younger fighter, he’s is harmful, however it’s nothing new for me,” Canelo advised reporters at a pre-fight presser. “I’ve skilled every little thing in boxing, with good fighters, sturdy fighters, I ready for that, we’re prepared and on Saturday you’ll see an important battle.”
If Saturday’s battle does grow to be an attractive, enjoyable slugfest, even for just a few rounds, it might show to be a smack within the face of the critics who’ve so lambasted this match-up. We followers who might be tuning in might be hoping the motion does warmth up, that the battle is just not a dud, that each males convey their A-game. However will even Berlanga’s A-game be sufficient to hassle Canelo?
Berlanga, 22-0(17) has numerous huge discuss to reside as much as right here, but on the similar time, has he actually received something to lose? He hasn’t, and that may make a fighter a harmful fighter. Can Berlanga catch Canelo, a 65-fight veteran, with one thing, something, unexpectedly? By way of making Saturday’s battle an excellent battle, perhaps even an important battle, let’s hope so.
