(This story first was revealed at USA TODAY.)
Canelo Alvarez didn’t get the knockout he promised.
However he landed brutal punches (and took just a few too) in a powerful victory over Edgar Berlanga by unanimous choice within the 12-round tremendous middleweight battle.
The fighters needed to be separated on a number of events and talked trash all through the battle. Berlanga was warned for head butting at one level and Alvarez appeared to take exception to that and different Berlanga ways. “I get a bit of indignant – a Mexican man,” Alvarez stated. The group roared with laughter.
The judges scored it 117-110, 118-109, 118-109.
“I’m one of the best fighter on the earth,” Alvarez stated, drawing cheers from the sellout crowd at T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas.
Alvarez knocked down Berlanga with a left hook within the third spherical whereas defending his tremendous middleweight title.
However Berlanga rapidly acquired again on his ft and survived the onslaught in a 12-round bout.
Alvarez has now gone six fights with no knockout. The final one got here in 2021 in opposition to Caleb Plant, who Alvarez stopped by TKO within the eleventh spherical.
Saturday’s battle was billed as the newest chapter within the boxing rivalry between Mexico and Puerto Rico with Alvarez matched up in opposition to Berlanga, a local New Yorker whose dad and mom are from Puerto Rico.
“I might’ve did much more. However I used to be in there with a legend, man,” Berlanga stated.
Alvarez, 34, improved to 62-2-2. Berlanga, 27, fell to 22-1.
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