Canelo Alvarez predicts a knockout win over Edgar Berlanga on Saturday evening of their combat on PPV. That’s a KO that he needs to provide to his followers on Mexican Independence Day tomorrow evening, and we’ll see if he can ship in opposition to his opponent, Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs).
If Canelo goes to try to knock Berlanga out, he must do it early somewhat than carrying him to entertain the followers. He claims that he carried his final opponent, Jaime Munguia, as a result of he needed to provide the individuals one thing to take a look at. Berlanga hits too exhausting for Canelo to purposefully enable to hold aorund.
What’s fascinating is that followers are speaking extra in regards to the undercard than they’re about the principle occasion between unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs) as a result of they really feel that it’s a accomplished deal that he’s going to defeat Berlanga.
Canelo wouldn’t have had this downside if he had chosen an opponent that followers believed would have a very good likelihood of beating him, like David Benavidez. His excuse for not preventing Benavidez is that he’s already fought all people, and if they need him to take that combat, they must pay. So, as an alternative of getting him, Berlanga is the man, and hopefully, he could make a very good combat of it on the T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas.
“I’ll,” stated Canelo to the media, guaranteeing a knockout win over Edgar Berlanga on Saturday.
“Do you assume Berlanga is the kind of puncher that Canelo hasn’t confronted but? You assume Golovkin, Kovalev, and Kirkland?” stated Chris Mannix on his podcast, asking Eddie Hearn if he thinks Edgar Berlanga is an even bigger puncher than anybody Canelo Alvarez has confronted throughout his 19-year profession.
“I don’t assume Munguia punches as exhausting as Berlanga. Bivol, the best way he was preventing, I don’t assume he was seeking to land massive photographs on Canelo Alvarez. [Jermell] Charlo, no. Plant, no. That’s why he’s been selecting these fights recently,” stated Eddie Hearn.
It may not come right down to how exhausting Berlanga hits however somewhat how nicely he can take the photographs coming again at him from Canelo. Berlanga has been harm in sparring by Erickson Lubin and dropped by Marcelo Coceres within the professional ranks.
“He doesn’t need somebody that runs. That’s why I don’t assume he’s within the Crawford combat, both,” stated Hearn.” The very last thing he needs is somebody working across the ring, making an attempt to steal rounds off him. Sadly, in the event you’re going to win the combat, you must take probabilities.
“The issue is once you take probabilities, Canelo can be an excellent counterpunch,” stated Hearn.
