Monthly Archives: September 2024

LAS VEGAS – Canelo Alvarez swang with ferocity, roared with intensity and flexed his superior talent to punish Edgar Berlanga with a full variety of powerful shots Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena. In front of a sellout crowd of 20,312, Alvarez’s effort generated a…

Junior middleweight Vergil Ortiz Jr. was celebrated Saturday by his hometown of Grand Prairie, Texas, during the city’s “Grand Fiestas Patrias” event. Ortiz (22-0, 21 KOs), who in August bested Serhii Bohachuk to win an interim 154-pound title, formed part of a memorable parade…

Saul "Canelo" Alvarez authored yet another brilliantly calculating, if less than spectacular, performance in outpointing Edgar Berlanga in the main event Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Neither fighter delivered on their respective knockout promises, but the fight was not wholly devoid of drama.…

For Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, the glass-half-full review of Saturday night’s victory over Edgar Berlanga at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas is clear enough: He won, he retained his lineal super middleweight championship, and he remains – at least as long as David Benavidez is…

None of the knockout predictions ever came to pass, but on Saturday at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez did what he so often does best, picking apart a younger and larger opponent in Edgar Berlanga to earn a 12-round unanimous decision and defend…