Las Vegas, Nevada – Canelo Alvarez (62-2-2, 39 KOs) continues his tremendous middleweight championship reign by defeating one other hungry lion in Edgar Berlanga (22-1, 17 KOs).
Canelo placed on a masterful efficiency in entrance of a sold-out crowd of 20,312 on the T-Cellular Area. Berlanga performed it protected by boxing Canelo on the surface as a substitute of buying and selling with him on the within as he stated he would in the course of the lead-up to the struggle.
Predicting he would knock Canelo out by the sixth spherical. Canelo scored a third-round knockdown with a vicious left hook that despatched Berlanga to the canvas. Berlanga survived the spherical and the match and in the end acquired recognition from the gang for his valiant effort. The professional-Canelo crowd applauded his efforts on the finish of the match.
Canelo outlanded Berlanga in each class, touchdown extra jabs and energy punches. He landed an astonishing 49.1 p.c of his energy punches, demonstrating he nonetheless can carry out at a excessive degree. Berlanga didn’t have an efficient protection to thwart Canelo’s assault.
Canelo was in a position to land with precision. Berlanga’s output consisted closely of his jab, throwing 260 however solely touchdown a lowly 20.8 p.c of them. His assault was ineffective and got here in need of really inflicting Canelo any actual harm (Compubox).
On the post-fight press convention, Canelo acknowledged that he would take a while to relaxation and take into consideration his subsequent opponent. Turki Alalshikh and Terence Crawford referred to as out Canelo final night time from the Sphere, stating they had been prepared for him. When pressed about Terence Crawford, Canelo merely acknowledged no remark.
Canelo acknowledged that if he does transfer as much as 175 kilos, he’ll accomplish that solely to struggle Dmitry Bivol and no person else. One other attainable possibility for Canelo is dealing with the brand new IBF tremendous middleweight champion, whomever which may be. There isn’t a present champion.
Canelo was stripped of the belt for failure to face the necessary IBF primary contender, William Scull. The status of changing into an undisputed champion may very well be luring him as soon as once more.
We’ll have to attend and see who wins the Canelo sweepstakes. Many would love the chance to win a multimillion-dollar payday. Terence Crawford, David Benavidez, Caleb Plant, and Dmitry Bivol have all expressed curiosity in preventing Canelo.
On the displeasure of many, Canelo can choose and select who he faces subsequent. For Edgar Berlanga, though he misplaced, his star energy has risen. His valiant effort earned him the respect of the followers, and so they’ll wish to see extra of him sooner or later. The highest choices for Berlanga are earlier Canelo opponents Caleb Plant or Jaime Munguia.
