4-belt 168-lb champion Canelo Alvarez and challenger Edgar Berlanga are finishing the ending touches to a struggle on September 14th on Mexican Independence Day within the twin broadcast occasion on DAZN and Prime Video PPV for the T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Canelo-Berlanga occasion will compete with UFC 306 on the identical evening in Las Vegas at The Sphere. Berlanga can be a great foil for Canelo, who will play the villain function within the promotion on account of followers intensely disliking him.
Fairly than Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs) permitting the UFC to take his Mexican Independence Day weekend for a second consecutive yr, he’s chosen Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs) as his opponent to compete towards Dana White’s firm.
That’s not good for Canelo or the UFC. If Canelo actually needed to mess with the UFC, he’d have chosen David Benavidez, which might have impacted Dana’s firm’s earnings that evening.
In accordance with Mike Coppinger, PBC would be the lead promoter, and Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing even be concerned. Matchroom promotes WBA obligatory Berlanga. Canelo is with PBC for this struggle.
Canelo-Berlanga isn’t one which followers are enthusiastic about as a result of they needed to see Canelo struggle David Benavidez, who has been ready for an opportunity to struggle Canelo for a few years. He’s Canelo’s #1 ranked WBC obligatory and the one man within the 168-lb division thought to have an opportunity of beating him.
Berlanga is unbeaten however not seen as a fantastic expertise. He’s seen as a fighter who has been matched strategically by his earlier promoters at Prime Rank and his present administration, Matchroom.
The Canelo vs. Berlanga matchup can be a Mexico vs. Puerto Rico contest. Berlanga is assured that his Puerto Rican followers in New York will order his struggle towards Canelo in excessive numbers. He’s predicting the occasion will herald 1 million PPV buys.
If that’s the case, that will be unbelievable as a result of Canelo hasn’t introduced in these numbers since his first two fights towards Gennadiy Golovkin. Followers usually are not anticipated to be very interested by Canelo vs. Berlanga.
Right this moment, Canelo is receiving large criticism on social media concerning the information of him finalizing a struggle with Berlanga as a result of followers view the New Yorker as phony and an inferior fighter with no wins over high quality opposition.
Watching Berlanga wrestle towards 39-year-old Roamier Alexis Angulo, Steve Rolls and Marcelo Coceres, his three finest opponents, it’s comprehensible why followers are so indignant that Canelo is preventing him. Berlanga appeared terrible in these fights.
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— Edgar Berlanga Jr (@EdgarBerlangaJr) July 22, 2024
