By: Sean Crose
This weekend boxing followers are getting the battle Canelo Alvarez wished. Whereas it’s true followers would have been blissful if Canelo had chosen to face powerhouse David Benavidez on Saturday night time, that is Canelo’s world we’re dwelling in it. Due to this fact, the long run Corridor of Famer will probably be dealing with Edgar Berlanga in a pay per view principal occasion in Vegas. Give Canelo credit score, he’s made a profession of dealing with one main problem after one other. What’s extra, Berlanga, is a assured, younger, undefeated contender who is aware of tips on how to prove the lights. It’s value remembering that boxing is a sport the place nearly something can occur. Nonetheless, the general public clearly would have most popular Canelo face a extra extremely regarded opponent than Berlanga this Mexican Independence Day weekend.
Canelo is standard and highly effective sufficient throughout the sport to name the pictures, although. Few would argue he hasn’t earned the appropriate to choose and select whoever he needs to face from right here on out. And so Berlanga it’s. There’s completely little doubt that that is the prospect of a lifetime for New Yorker Berlanga. Is there an opportunity he can win, although? Supplied there’s at all times an opportunity for an upset in boxing, a Berlanga upset doesn’t appear probably. Then once more, it wouldn’t be an upset if folks suspected it would nicely occur.
With that being mentioned, Berlanga has stopped all however 5 of his opponents. Berlanga additionally fights with a formidable diploma of persistence. Here’s a man who trusts his personal talents, a necessary high quality for knowledgeable boxer to have. About that knockout ratio, although, Berlanga’s 5 choice victories have all come about in his most up-to-date fights – aside from Berlanga’s final bout, which noticed him cease Padraig McCrory in six. Suffice to say, Canelo isn’t any McCrory.
But Canelo can also be arguably not the fighter he as soon as was. At the very least that’s what they are saying. The reality is, they are saying so much. It’s arduous to disregard the truth that Canelo has gained his previous 4 fights and that his final defeat got here on the gloved fists of sunshine heavyweight Dmitry Bivol – a monumental problem for Canelo if ever there was one. Right here’s the factor – Canelo is a thunderous physique puncher with world class footwork, persistence to burn and the boldness that comes with it. He may also, after all, prove the lights prefer it’s no one’s enterprise.
Berlanga will go for broke, however except Canelo immediately aged a dozen years in a single day, the legendary fighter will knock the youthful man out in eight.
