Edgar Berlanga believes he brings more problems to Canelo Alvarez than the guys he’s been facing during his career.
The unbeaten Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs) thinks he’s got the right ingredients to trouble the undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo in September if he chooses him as his opponent. Canelo hasn’t tipped his hand to indicate whether he’ll bless Berlanga for the chance to get a payday against him.
If Canelo does choose to fight Berlanga, it could open the floodgates for promoters to match their fighters in the same way that he was to swiftly position them for a big payday without matching them against tough opposition. It would be a bad thing for the fans.
“I know he fought big punchers and everybody, but I feel with me, it’s something different,” said Edgar Berlanga to Cigar Talk, speaking about Canelo Alvarez, who he hopes to fight next in September. “I’m going to bring something different to the table.”
The former Top Rank-promoted Berlanga doesn’t explain what he means by saying that he “brings something different to the table” for Canelo from the guys he’s fought in the past. Comparing Berlanga to Gennadiy Golovkin, you can only say that Edgar lacks the power, skills, and resume he had before his first fight against Canelo.
Berlanga, 27, is one of the two fighters Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs) is believed to be considering for his next title defense. Jermall Charlo, the former two-division world champion, is the other.
Neither fighter is ideal for Canelo, as they’ve not beaten any solid competition recently. Berlanga, on the other hand, has never fought an A-level fighter during his eight-year professional career.
The New Yorker Berlanga is still at the prospect stage of his career. However, surprisingly, the World Boxing Association gave Berlanga the #1 ranking in their organization after he recently beat an obscure fighter named Padraig McCrory by a sixth-round knockout earlier this year on February 24 in Orlando, Florida.
Berlanga had the chance to fight WBA ‘regular’ super middleweight champion David Morrell when he became his mandatory challenger earlier this year after his win over McCrory but chose to hold out with hopes of getting selected by Canelo.
It would have looked better if Berlanga had taken the fight with Morrell because it would have positioned him in a more solid place to be selected by Canelo.
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