Mexican icon Canelo Alvarez hasn't come close to dealing with the kind of puncher as Edgar Berlanga, the unbeaten American has actually stated ahead of their clash in Las Vegas next month.
Berlanga, who is simply 27, infamously started his profession by scoring 16 succeeding first-round knockouts ahead of their match to contest Canelo's WBA, WBC and WBO incredibly middleweight titles in the T-Mobile Arena on September 14, Berlanga states that he anticipates his power to pay dividends again.
“A thousand percent,” Berlanga informed Fight Hub television of his belief in his capability to drop Canelo to the canvas next month. “Bro, I knocked heavyweights out in sparring. Guys 230, 240, putting them out.
More just recently, and as competitors increased, Berlanga has actually scored simply one surface– a 6th round TKO of Padraig McCrory last February– in his previous 6. Berlanga thinks there is a factor for some of his current battles going to the judges' scorecards.
“From the 4 years being far from Mark [Farrait]my fitness instructor you understand when we divided, I avoided that,” Berlanga stated. “I lost the killer impulse. I got felons on my group, ex felons, guys that did a great deal of years in jail, so I got that mindset. Because ring, I'm a killer so that's simply what I bring.”
Canelo, considered as among the finest fighters of his generation, pertains to the battle with substantial pedigree of his own, as evidenced by a 65-fight profession revealing simply as soon as beat in the previous years– to the exceptional Dmitry Bivol in a light heavyweight battle in May 2022.
Berlanga, however, isn't worried by track record. “You bleed like me, you breathe the exact same air I breathe, you stroll on the exact same Earth that I stroll on, he's absolutely nothing various. He's not a robotic from deep space. He's a human. It's the psychological, it's the mindset.”
