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Edgar Berlanga’s reported fight-night weight last Saturday was 193 pounds for his unsuccessful title challenge against WBA, WBC, and WBO super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez in Las Vegas. That’s a massive gain of 25.4 lbs from the 167.6 lbs that the Matchroom-promoted Berlanga weighed last…

Edgar Berlanga said after his loss to Canelo Alvarez that he’d fought a “war” with the Mexican star, losing a lopsided 12-round unanimous decision fight at the T-Mobile in Las Vegas. After the fight, Berlanga said he wants a rematch with Canelo in 2025 after…

Anthony Joshua is focused, fully, on Daniel Dubois, who he of course faces this Saturday night at a sold-out Wembley. But the former two-time heavyweight champ has spoken about what may come next for him “once I’ve got past Dubois.” Speaking with Sky Sports, AJ…

Oscar De La Hoya told us all that he would not be watching last night’s fight between his former fighter/friend Canelo Alvarez and Edgar Berlanga, that he would instead be attending Dana White’s UFC gig down the road in Vegas. De La Hoya also told…

Terence Crawford took advantage of Canelo Alvarez fighting tonight to call him out after his win over Edgar Berlanga. Crawford enlisted His Excellency Turki Alalshikh to help him with the call out, and he threw in his support for his need. Canelo recently dismissed the…

It proved to be a good, fun fight tonight in Las Vegas, as 168-pound king Canelo Alvarez pounded out a 12 round unanimous decision win over a super game Edgar Berlanga. Scores were 118-109 twice and 117-110. But as accurate as these scores are, they…

Thankfully, the fight did not go the full 12 rounds. Tonight on the Canelo-Berlanga card in Las Vegas, WBA middleweight titlist Erislandy Lara stopped former 140-pound king Danny Garcia with a ninth-round corner retirement victory. (Credit: Ryan Hafey & Rey Del Rio/Premier Boxing Champions) Lara,…

Canelo Alvarez is looking to outmaneuver David Benavidez by fighting against Dmitry Bivol next if he’s victorious against Artur Beterbiev to grab the undisputed light heavyweight championship. Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs) has an excellent chance of knocking out Bivol on October 12th. So that would…

Canelo Alvarez and Edgar Berlanga will meet tonight in the main event, live on DAZN PPV in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event starts at 8 pm ET/4 pm PT. Berlanga wants to make a name for himself by beating King Canelo and taking his spot…