By: Sean Crose
This weekend boxing followers are getting the battle Canelo Alvarez wished. Whereas it’s true followers would have been joyful if Canelo had chosen to face powerhouse David Benavidez on Saturday night time, that is Canelo’s world we’re dwelling in it. Subsequently, the long run Corridor of Famer will likely be going through Edgar Berlanga in a pay per view most important occasion in Vegas. Give Canelo credit score, he’s made a profession of going through one main problem after one other. What’s extra, Berlanga, is a assured, younger, undefeated contender who is aware of methods to end up the lights. It’s value remembering that boxing is a sport the place just about 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 widespread and highly effective sufficient inside the sport to name the photographs, although. Few would argue he hasn’t earned the proper to select and select whoever he needs to face from right here on out. And so Berlanga it’s. There’s completely little question that that is the prospect of a lifetime for New Yorker Berlanga. Is there an opportunity he can win, although? Offered there’s all the time an opportunity for an upset in boxing, a Berlanga upset doesn’t appear seemingly. Then once more, it wouldn’t be an upset if folks suspected it would effectively occur.
With that being stated, Berlanga has stopped all however 5 of his opponents. Berlanga additionally fights with a powerful diploma of persistence. Here’s a man who trusts his personal skills, a necessary high quality for an expert boxer to have. About that knockout ratio, although, Berlanga’s 5 choice victories have all come about in his most up-to-date fights – apart from Berlanga’s final bout, which noticed him cease Padraig McCrory in six. Suffice to say, Canelo is not any McCrory.
But Canelo can 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 lots. 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 arrogance that comes with it. He also can, in fact, end up the lights prefer it’s no person’s enterprise.
Berlanga will go for broke, however until Canelo out of the blue aged a dozen years in a single day, the legendary fighter will knock the youthful man out in eight.
