Edgar Berlanga believes Terence Crawford can’t be counted out in a 168-pound fight with Canelo Alvarez. Even though Crawford is older and would have to give up weight to middleweight champion Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs), the recently defeated Berlanga believes he would have a chance.

Crawford turns 37 this Saturday, September 28, and has to start thinking about retirement if a fight with Canelo doesn’t fall into his lap.

It would be great to see Crawford get back on his feet and fight for the title against Canelo, while competing against four talented killers: David Benavidez, Osley Iglesias, David Morrell and Christian Mbilli.

Sorry Berlanga. At 168 you are not in my book one of Crawford’s top four fighters to fight Canelo. Jeweled, counterfeit fighters with tender resumes don’t count.

If His Excellency Turki Alalshikh offers Canelo $150 million to make the fight happen, Crawford will move up two weight classes from 154 to challenge him for the WBA, WBC and WBO super middleweight titles.

Turki recently joined Crawford in challenging Canelo on September 14 following his one-sided 12-round unanimous decision win over the hopelessly outmatched Berlanga. However, when asked about the bout at the post-fight press conference, Canelo seemed uninterested, saying, “No comment.”

The way Canelo delivered that remark was clear: “Stop bothering me.” Crawford needs to take the hint and move on, because Canelo won’t assist him in his quest to get generational money for his golden parachute retirement fund. David Benavidez has already offered Crawford a fight, and other top fighters like Jaron “Boots” Ennis are also interested in fighting him.

“I really believe that anything can happen in boxing, and Terence Crawford is a legend. He’s a great fighter. The only thing I see that speaks in Canelo’s favor is his weight, and he’s a lot bigger. That’s the only thing,” Edgar Berlanga told Rocks the universe on his thoughts on a potential Terence Crawford vs. Canelo Alvarez fight at 168 pounds.

“As far as skill and IQ, Crawford can match anyone and probably be better. Crawford is a legend, man. You can’t count him out,” Berlanga said.

Is this the biography of a legend?

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Eddie Hearn has revealed details of his ringside altercation with “arrogant f**k” Devin Haney, which was caught on camera on Saturday night.

Hearn and Haney enjoyed a great relationship when the American was a member of the Matchroom stable, but that relationship has deteriorated in recent months.

The situation came to a head over the weekend when Haney tweeted that Hearn had rejected his request for tickets to Saturday’s Riyadh season opener at Wembley Stadium.

However, Haney entered the arena and was booed when he was shown on the gigantic screen. Conor Benn later posted a video on Instagram of Hearn and Haney arguing at ringside.

In an exclusive interview with Boxing News, Hearn revealed what he told his former client.

“It was heated,” Hearn said. “Remember the relationship I have with Devin, remember everything we’ve been through, I couldn’t believe he would just throw it out there on social media.

“I got a text from him at 6 a.m. the day of the fight saying, ‘I need tickets to Joshua.’ He texted me 24 hours before the fight saying, ‘yo,’ but I was so busy I didn’t text him back. When I texted him Friday night, he texted me back Saturday morning asking for tickets.

“First of all, all the tickets for the inner ring were pre-allocated to His Excellency and all those people, and we had a few months to notify our fighters who had made requests, which we reviewed. At that point, we just didn’t have the tickets. So I said, ‘It’s not just our show, we’re just working on the event, you might have to ask Riyadh Season for the tickets.’ I didn’t get a response.

“So I was sitting there at the show and he said, ‘Wow, Eddie Hearn didn’t buy me tickets, he’s so two-faced.’ So I just said, ‘You’re an arrogant, f**king asshole.’ I pulled him up at the show and said, ‘What do you think you’re doing?’ He said, ‘Hey, hey,’ and I said, ‘No, no, hey, hey… what are you doing?’

“I said, ‘First of all, you couldn’t be more arrogant, second of all, why don’t you write to me and ask if I can’t solve something? Instead, you tweet? You’re like a little kid.’

“I said, ‘You used to be a good kid, but now I don’t like this arrogance I see in you. Don’t ever do that again.’ He said I said something about him in the media, but I was just answering a question.

“I don’t represent him, so if someone asks me about Devin Haney, I’ll tell you what I think. I never said anything rude, but I said, ‘You did this, so don’t ever disrespect me again.’

“I was reluctant to do so. I told him directly.”

Keyshawn Davis says he would knock out Devin Haney if he got the chance to fight the former two-division world champion. Davis (11-0, 7 KOs) says Haney doesn’t have the power to make him respect what he brings and hasn’t been able to stop him from attacking.

Keyshawn’s impact and Crawford style fighting style would be a nightmare for Haney if he couldn’t stop him with clinches, punches and movement. Some see Keyshawn as the next Crawford and destined for greatness in the sport. Top Rank thinks so because they put him in the top tier and match him up well to make sure he doesn’t get beat.

The glow has gone out

Much of Haney’s career luster faded after his loss to Ryan Garcia last April, and he no longer holds the title. red carpet treatment once received.

It was as if Haney was no longer a member of the royal family, but a common peasant working the land and paying taxes to the king. Haney even dressed like a serf and did not wear the robes of one of the upper echelons. That loss to Ryan really did something to Haney’s standing and the way he is treated now.

We saw this last weekend when Haney argued with promoter Eddie Hearn over tickets to the Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois fight at Wembley Stadium. Would this have happened if Haney had beaten Ryan in April? That’s a huge no. Haney would have been part of the crowd, a celebrity guest who would have received first-class treatment.

Keyshawn, a 2020 Olympic silver medalist, believes much of Haney’s success in his career came from being bigger than his opponents at 135 and 140 pounds. In many of his fights, Haney looked huge in the ring after rehydrating and looked out of place against his smaller opponents. Unfortunately, that’s the way the sport is played now.

Younger fighters who can melt massive amounts of water choose to fight in divisions far below their frame. Then somehow they find a way to quickly regain 20+ pounds of water. Who knows how they do it, but there are certainly ways to cheat the system.

Until boxing solves this problem by making additional weigh-ins mandatory on fight day, we will continue to see this phenomenon.

Keyshawn, a lightweight title contender promoted by Top Rank, would have to move up to welterweight to fight Haney because that’s where he’s headed.

“I feel like me and Devin Haney would be an uncomplicated fight for me. It would be super uncomplicated and I know I could stop Devin Haney,” Keyshawn Davis said Top-level boxingcriticizing former two-division world champion Haney. “I said that before the Ryan fight. He just doesn’t have anything for me.”

If Keyshawn could move up to welterweight without losing the power he showed at 135, it would be captivating to see him fight Haney. That seems impossible given the weight classes and network issues that stand in the way of making that fight happen.

“You have no power. You have nothing to worry about,” Keyshawn said of Haney. “What are you going to do to stop me? With what I have, I don’t think he has anything that can stop me. His defense isn’t that good. I think I have better defense than he does.

“I know he’s fought better guys than me. So I’ll give him a chance, but I feel like I have a better defense than he does. Yeah, I do, but you have to realize he’s fought a lot of guys that were weaker than me,” Keyshawn said, responding to the news that Haney’s resume is “tough.”

“A lot of guys were smaller than him. He’d say at the weigh-ins, ‘You’re too petite.’ So he knew what he was doing, man. Everyone has a process to get there. I’m not criticizing what he does,” Davis said.

Haney’s various promoters have done a great job of matching him throughout his career, but all good things must come to an end. It all fell apart when he finally met his rival, Ryan Garcia, and now he looks like yesterday’s news. Haney may not be rebuilt, as he is mentally shaken and can no longer bring himself to fight in weight classes below his enormous junior middleweight. The end.

“His guys are smarter than him and it was uncomplicated for him to slip away. When you’re taller than someone, more slender, it’s uncomplicated to slip away and just avoid obstacles and keep them out, and that’s his game. Size means something, man. I just feel like he can’t do that [anything] “with me,” Keyshawn said.

Up until Haney’s last fight with Ryan Garcia on April 20, he was bigger than all his opponents, which gave him a huge advantage. However, in the fight with Ryan, he looked deadly and was beaten by him badly. Since that fight, Haney has looked like a former war veteran who is no longer the same mentally after witnessing the horrors of countless battles. This fight brought out something in Haney that he can’t forget.