Edgar Berlanga believes he will be able to show more in his fight with Canelo Alvarez in September than any other fighter the Mexican star has fought.
Berlanga (22-0, 17KOs) isn’t lacking in confidence like many East Coast fighters. Fans see this as a ailing mismatch for Canelo and are concerned he’ll take on the unproven WBA fighter.
Heated-up fight
Canelo has yet to confirm that his next fight will be against the 27-year-old Berlanga, but it is believed to be his last fight before a clash with Terence Crawford in the first half of 2025.
Berlanga is a good warm-up because it gives Canelo a chance to take a break from fighting good opponents, allowing him to pick up an effortless win before the Crawford fight.
What’s compelling about Berlanga is how confident he is for someone who has spent his entire career being compared to tomato cans by promoters at Top Rank, a tradition that continued when Matchroom signed the Novel Yorker.
Puerto Rico vs. Mexico Narrative
“He knows I’m going to get that bag and we’re going to beat him,” said Edgar Berlanga Cigar Conversation about his belief that he will beat Canelo Alvarez in September.
Hopefully this fight will be more than just a “winner” for Berlanga, because fans won’t be thrilled at the prospect of paying to watch a lopsided fight if he can’t at least make it compelling.
Berlanga did not perform well in fights against Roamer Alexis Angulo, Marcelo Conceres, Steve Rolls, Jason Quigley and Demond Nicholson.
Although Berlanga claims Padraig McCrory was his best opponent, it is demanding to take the 36-year-old Irish fighter seriously as he has no name on his resume and when they fought in February last year he did not resemble a world-class fighter.
“It’s a legacy for me. It’s Puerto Rico versus Mexico. Everyone keeps talking about that fight. I feel like I need to take a break,” Berlanga said. “I feel like it’s time for me to get to that level,” Berlanga said when asked about his win over Canelo.
Edgar feels he needs to “chill out” to have a chance at beating Canelo. Just saying.
A fighter either has that trait or he doesn’t. You don’t just become crazy and fearless in the ring if you haven’t been that way your entire career. Fighting Canelo recklessly is not wise for Berlanga because his defense is already feeble and his jaw is less than iron.
“I know he [Canelo] I’ve fought great fighters and all, but I feel like this is something different. I’m going to bring something different to the game,” Berlanga said.
This is a step back for Canelo compared to his last fight with Jaime Munguia. He is a much better fighter than Berlanga, but again, this is a warm-up for the Mexican star. It would be better for Berlanga to fight Munguia or Morrell to prove he is worthy of fighting Canelo, not Padraig McCrory.
“I’m rising with the competition. My IQ is through the roof. I knew in my last fight that someone was coming,” Berlanga said of his victory over little-known 36-year-old Irish fighter Padraig McCrory last February. “I knew he had the power to knock out [50% KO rate].
“I knew he was [McCrory] was the toughest fighter on my resume. So I was already in shape. I knew what kind of knockout I needed to secure a spot in the ring with Canelo, and I did it,” Berlanga said.
Berlanga hasn’t raised his game yet, so his comment about him raising his game and IQ when he faces better opponents is irrelevant. If he fought Morrell, you could tell whether he raised his game or not.
Berlanga’s win over McCrory made him the mandatory for then-WBA 168-pound “regular” champion David Morrell, but Edgar turned down the fight for obvious reasons, opting to wait until Canelo gave him a title shot. Cuban talent Morrell would be a nightmare for Berlanga.
“It will be a completely different fight, [Canelo]”I’ve got Puerto Ricans, I’ve got Russians, I’ve got Chinese, I’ve got whites. I’ve got everybody. I’m not just with the Latino community. Of course, it’s boxing, so they’re going to put Puerto Rico versus Mexico,” Berlanga said.
Hopefully Berlanga will attract a lot of fans to his fight with Canelo if he wins it. It’s demanding to believe Berlanga has a huge fan base in Novel York when he hasn’t fought any groundbreaking opponents yet.
“I’m a substantial attraction. I know a lot of people love knockouts, and that’s what I give,” Berlanga said.
For Tyson Fury, there are parallels between his multi-fight rivalry with Deontay Wilder, which lasted from December 2018 to October 2021, and a potential multi-fight rivalry with Oleksandr Usyk.
He hopes that in the case of Usyk it will end in three fights, which will mean that Fury will win the rematch, which will take place on December 21 in Riyad. He also knows, after his experience with Wilder, that on December 21 he must do more than just box to victory and rely on the three judges in the ring to officially give him the victory.
Of course, in the match against Wilder, Fury drew a controversial draw the first time, which he later corrected with two stoppage victories. However, against Usyk in May, Fury did not resent the judges’ opinion (correct this time), but instead his own inability to dominate Usyk and prevent the fight from lasting so long. He doesn’t want to make the same mistake the second time. The second time around, he will rely on the momentum he experiences in the fight rather than taking it for granted.
“It’s no secret that I’m going there to knock him out because I don’t think that no matter what I do, I won’t get a decision,” said Fury, 34-1-1 (24). interview with Undisputed. “I don’t think I’ll get a boxing decision, so I’ll have to take my hand off the judges like I did back then in America. I have to get him out of there.
Eliminating Oleksandr Usyk is easier said than done. In his professional career spanning 22 fights and 11 years, the brilliant Ukrainian has never been close to defeat, let alone stopped. Moreover, his intelligence and counter-attacking ability are so great that the risk of stopping Usyk forever increases due to his ability to operate his opponent’s aggression and ambition against him. For this reason, and because of his durability, few opponents even considered the prospect of stopping Usyk, 22-0 (14). For this reason, Tyson Fury, despite his size and record in previous rematches, will need to deliver the performance of his life to become the first man to do so.
On Saturday in Liverpool, England, Nick Ball defends his WBA featherweight world title against Ronny Rios at Echo Arena (ESPN+, 2 p.m. ET).
Ball (20-0-1, 11 KO) from Liverpool fought for the WBC featherweight title against Ray Vargas in March, but the fight ended in a draw. Three months later, on June 1, Ball defeated Raymond Ford by split decision to win the WBA belt. He will have his first defense against Rios.
Rios (34-4, 17 KO), of Compton, California, has fought for the junior featherweight title twice, losing both to Vargas in 2017 and Murodjon Akhmadaliev in 2022. He defeats Nicolas Polanco by KO in the fifth round. April.
Where can I watch the Ball vs. fight card? Rios?
Ball vs. fight card Rios will air Saturday on ESPN+ at 2 p.m. ET.
The fights will be broadcast on mobile devices using the ESPN application.
Full Ball vs. Rios fight card:
Title fight: Nick Ball vs. Ronny Rios, 12 rounds, for Ball’s WBA featherweight title
Jack Rafferty vs. Henry Turner, 12 rounds, for the British junior welterweight title
Jack Turner vs. Gonzalo Corinaldesi, 6 rounds, bantamweight
Jadier Herrera vs. Oliver Flores, 10 rounds, lightweight
Walter Fury vs. Dale Arrowsmith, 4 rounds, junior middleweight
Andrew Cain vs. Lazaro Casseres, 12 rounds, bantamweight
Joe Cooper vs. Łukasz Barabasz, 4 rounds, middleweight
Alimkhanuly stops Mikhailovich and defends his IBF middleweight title
Janibek Alimkhanuly defended his IBF middleweight title with a ninth-round TKO victory over Andrei Mikhailovich on Friday at The Star Sydney in Pyrmont, Australia.
The fight ended after Alimkhanuly landed two consecutive left uppercuts that caused Mikhailovich to stumble backwards, forcing referee Katsuhiko Nakamura to stop the fight at 2:45 minutes into the round.
Alimkhanuly hurt Mikhailovich with the same punch in round 2 and scored a knockdown at the bell, but Mikhailovich recovered. From there, it was only a matter of time before Alimkhanuly separated himself and struck frequently with his left hand under Mikhailovich’s pressure.
After the fight, Alimkhanuly said he would like to unify the titles with the other two champions.
“I have two titles and [other] two titles are missing,” Alimkhanuly said. “Each of them [Carlos] Adames or [Erislandy] Lara, I’m ready. Anytime and whenever, send me the paper. I will send it anytime.”
The fight was originally scheduled for July 13 in Las Vegas, but two days before that date, Alimkhanuly fainted while trying to gain weight and was taken to the hospital, where he was forced to withdraw due to severe dehydration.
Alimkhanuly (16-0, 11 KO), from Zhilanda, Kazakhstan but currently living and training in Oxnard, California, won the WBO middleweight title with a unanimous decision victory over Denzel Bentley in November 2022. He made one defense in May 2023. , a second-round KO of Steve Butler, before dropping Vincenzo Gualtieri in six rounds last October to add the IBF title. The WBO title was not at risk in the fight against Mikhailovich.
Mikhailovich (21-1, 13 KO) is a weighty puncher with long arms (74½ inches) from Auckland, Recent Zealand. He won seven of his last eight fights by stoppage before losing to Alimkhanuly.
Mikhailovich was born in Russia, but after being adopted, he and his brother moved to Recent Zealand.
Where can I watch a replay of the Alimkhanuly vs. fight? Mikhailovich?
Alimkhanuly vs. fight card replay Mikhailovich can be streamed on ESPN+.
Jaron “Boots” Ennis says his inability to knock out Karen Chukhadzhian last year has nothing to do with what he did during their fight in Washington
Boots (32-0, 29 KO) blames it on himself because he entered the fight trying to score a knockout instead of having fun as usual. Chukhadzhian (24-2, 13 KO) took advantage of Ennis’ crazy swings that caused him to miss and took annoying shots that made him look bad.
IBF welterweight champion Ennis, 27, will have the opportunity to show fans he can knock out No. 1 Chukhadzhian in their rematch next month on November 9 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
Chukhadzhian is on a three-fight winning streak to put himself in a must-see position to face Ennis again and will be keen to take advantage of that opportunity. Ennis believes that Chukhadzhian will try to play more aggressively this time as he didn’t win a single round last time, losing by scores of 120-108, 120-108 and 120-108.
This will be Ennis’ second fight at Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom and it must look good as the British promoter has had fans buzzing with him. Unfortunately, Ennis did not perform impressively in his first fight under Hearn’s wing, as he was hit strenuous by David Avanesyan on July 13. He won by knockout in the fifth round, but it was not a spectacular effort.
“It wasn’t him. It was me. My attitude was, “I’m going to knock him out.” You can’t go into a fight like that thinking you’re going to knock someone out,” said Jaron Ennis. Brian Mazique about what happened in his previous fight against Karen Chukhadzhian last year.
“I went from not having fun, and when I get back to having fun, it’s going to be another knockout. In the next fight I’m going to put on a show, not look for it. Just let me be myself. Don’t look for a knockout. “As you saw, when I got back to having fun in my last fight, there was a knockout,” Ennis said of his fight with David Avanesyan last July.
It would have worked better if Ennis had just admitted to Chukhadzhian that he made him look indigent instead of putting it on himself for fighting a bad fight. The way Ennis talks, it sounds like he’s just making excuses and doesn’t know how to admit that he lacks the talent to do the job.
“He won’t change his style. Could be a little more. In his last fight, he tried boxing, but he didn’t win the round. I feel like he’ll be more involved this time, but I feel like once he gets touched, he’ll be back on the bike,” Ennis said.
Chukhajian always fights on the defensive in every fight. Therefore, it is a stupid idea for Ennis to assume that he will fight aggressively against him in the rematch. What Chukhadzhian will probably do is steal some bullets and make Ennis look bad again. This would hurt his chances of fighting Terence Crawford.
“In the last fight, everything depended on me. It was me who did wrong, not him. He has been winning since we fought and has become a must-see fighter. So that’s what happened,” Ennis said.
He looked like the same Jaron Ennis as usual, but he was dealing with a player with impressive defensive skills on par with Shakur Stevenson. Against a defensive artist like Chukhadzihian, Ennis has to fight very differently because he won’t knock him out with a swing for the fence.
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