Edgar Berlanga Disagrees That Canelo Alvarez Is In His Decline

Edgar Berlanga doesn’t think Canelo Alvarez has lost a step or is in his decline.

Berlanga and Alvarez are set to box on Saturday in an intriguing matchup. Berlanga enters the bout as a sizeable underdog. Although many people are overlooking Berlanga, he is eager about that as he wants to fight the best Alvarez to prove how good he is.

“I think I’m going to get the best version of him,” Berlanga said (via BoxingNewsOnline). “I seen the gloves off [programme] that I’m talking and I’m the guy that’s big mouthing and stuff but at the end of the day this is a fight. He’s coming to take my head off, he’s wanting to come and try to hurt me so I don’t got no respect for him, I never had no respect for no fighter I fought ever.

“When I fought McCrory [in] my last fight I have no respect for him. I had to do him how I did him and after the fight I pray for him, I pray for his family and it was all love and respect,” Berlanga added. “He has a different type of mindset when it comes to boxing but that’s not us you, we come from New York. I don’t know where he come from he says Mexico but Mexicans I know – real Mexicans –  they’re guys that come to fight whether or not what I’m saying. There’s no respect.”

If Edgar Berlanga does get the best version of Canelo Alvarez and beats him, it would be a statement win.

Berlanga is 22-0 as a pro and coming off a TKO win over Padraig McCrory. Before that, he scored a decision win over Jason Quigley, Roamer Alexis Angulo, and Steve Rolls.

Berlanga vs Alvarez is set to take place on Saturday at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.