LAS VEGAS — Tremendous welterweight fighter Tim Tszyu expects Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez to breeze previous Edgar Berlanga when the favored Mexican returns to the ring September 14 on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas.
Canelo places his WBC and WBO tremendous middleweight world championship titles on the road atop a Premier Boxing Champions on Prime Video PPV card on Mexican Independence Day weekend.
Tszyu is one in all quite a few athletes, musicians, or celebrities who will stroll the crimson carpet to attend one in all boxing’s most glamorous weekends of the yr.
Nevertheless, Tszyu will keep tee-total as he has a struggle of his personal to arrange for.
As World Boxing Information solely revealed final month, Tszyu will headline his personal PBC occasion October 19 when he challenges Bakhram Murtazaliev for the IBF championship at 154 kilos in Orlando, Florida.
Tszyu will attend the Canelo vs Berlanga occasion, and can even touch upon his struggle subsequent month on-air for Prime Video.
Forward of the large occasion Saturday, Tszyu shared with World Boxing Information his official prediction — an “straightforward” knockout win for Alvarez, one in all boxing’s pound-for-pound staples within the trendy period.
“Canelo stops him,” Tszyu informed us after understanding on the Break up T Boxing Membership in Las Vegas.
“I feel Berlanga’s chinny,” he added. “I noticed a video of Erickson Lubin dropping him. That’s a 154-pounder. So I feel Canelo stops him simply.”
Canelo and Berlanga headline one in all PBC’s largest exhibits of the yr because the September 14 slobberknocker additionally options Erislandy Lara towards Danny Garcia, Rolando Romero and Caleb Plant in separate fights, and even Stephen Fulton on the prelims.
Tszyu’s struggle towards Murtazaliev headlines one other PBC occasion subsequent month, but will happen on common Prime Video, reasonably than pay-per-view.
This implies Tszyu holds the report for 2 Prime Video occasions. Not solely did he headline the first-ever boxing pay-per-view on Amazon, however he’ll now additionally headline PBC’s first-ever championship (non-PPV) occasion on Prime Video.
It’s unclear, as of proper now, who else will function on the Tszyu vs Murtazaliev occasion.
Earlier WBN reporting, although, signifies Tszyu hopes to make a swift return to the ring after his October title tilt towards Murtazaliev as he hopes to struggle for a 3rd time in 2024 by competing towards somebody like Lubin in December.
Ought to all go to plan, he desires to struggle a rematch with Sebastian Fundora early in 2025.
Alan Dawson is World Boxing Information Lead Author, a 2 x Sports activities Journalist of the Yr finalist, and 5 x BWAA awards winner. Observe Alan @AlanDawsonSport.
