Jaime Munguia known as out Caleb Plant and Edgar Berlanga following his tenth-round knockout victory over Erik Bazinyan (32-1 23 KOs) in the primary occasion final Friday evening on the Desert Diamond Enviornment in Glendale, Arizona.
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Munguia (44-1, 35 KOs) needs an enormous identify to get ranked excessive and place himself for one more world title problem. Beating Plant or Plant could be a wonderful strategy to rise to the highest and get a rematch with unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez.
The previous WBO junior middleweight champion Munguia additionally talked about desirous to battle #1 WBC-ranked Christian Mbilli. Nonetheless, he’s coming off an damage from his latest battle towards Sergiy Derevyanchenko, and he reportedly solely needs to problem for a world title towards Canelo subsequent. Mbilli has already earned his world title shot. It wouldn’t make sense for him to place that spot in danger towards Munguia.
These two fighters could be dangerous for Munguia (44-1, 35 KOs), who had issues with Bazinyan’s jab and occasional punch outbursts final evening. Combating the massive puncher Berlanga or the expert boxer Plant could be troublesome for Munguia from what he confirmed towards Bazinyan.
Plant had talked about desirous to battle Munguia subsequent after his latest victory over Trevor McCumby on September 14th. It might be a wonderful battle for the followers.
“There are nice issues to come back, nice fights at 168 kilos. There’s Caleb Plant, Berlanga, Christian Mbilli. There are nice fights, and we are going to give nice wars as properly,” mentioned Munguia when interviewed after his win over Bazinyan.
Berlanga’s administration will possible cross up on Munguia’s provide as a result of he’s anticipated to take a tune-up battle subsequent in early 2025 in New York or Puerto Rico to rebuild after his loss to Canelo on September 14th.
Going from dropping to Canelo in a punishing battle to going through an enormous puncher like Munguia wouldn’t be a wise transfer for Berlanga.
Of the three fighters that Munguia known as out, Plant (23-2, 14 KOs) is essentially the most practical one among that can take him up on the provide. Caleb Plant wants a win like that to extend his probabilities of getting a profitable rematch towards Canelo. In 2021, the previous IBF tremendous middleweight champion Plant was knocked out by Alvarez within the eleventh spherical.
That loss for Plant makes it obligatory for him to get an enormous win over a reputation fighter like Munguia to strengthen his place for a rematch towards Canelo. Plant’s latest victory over the little identified McCumby wasn’t a sufficiently big one to encourage Canelo to battle him once more.
