Edgar Berlanga doesn’t believe Padraig McCrory is “dangerous” enough to pose him a threat when on Saturday they fight. They fight at super middleweight at Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida, when the 26-year-old Berlanga is again the favourite and again under pressure to impress. In his first fight under Matchroom, when he was perhaps in contention to fight Saul “Canelo” ...
Teddy Atlas reckons Edgar Berlanga would have learned more in his last five fights than his first 16 combined. The trainer and analyst believes that Berlanga did not develop much after an introduction to the pros that saw him win his first 16 fights, all by first-round knockouts. Berlanga then went eight rounds with Demond Nicholson, had three 10-rounders to ...
Japan’s Junto Nakatani – who fights Alexandro Santiago for the WBC bantamweight title at the Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo on Saturday – can fight. For a fighter who’s already won titles at flyweight and super flyweight he’s tall, and his reputation’s growing. His knockout of Andrew Moloney in May 2023 was impressive. Moloney had already established himself in the US, so for Nakatani to knock him out ...
Since boxing began, newspapers, magazines, television channels and websites have used the same time-honoured way of assessing a fighter and their capabilities. They will work their way down a checklist and put their scores or thoughts alongside a series of categories. Usually tagged on to the end, alongside sections like “Boxing ability” and “Chin”, there will be another: “Intangibles.” It is ...
The man Edgar Berlanga hopes to fight someday soon, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, is fond of saying: “No boxing, no life.” Berlanga knows there’s more to it than that. Did he always feel that way? That’s something only he knows in his heart, but, at least today, the super-middleweight contender is well aware that no boxing doesn’t mean the end of ...
Canelo Alvarez is stuck in a curious conundrum. In the court of public opinion, it’s David Benavidez or bust as to who the super middleweight champion should fight next around his traditional Cinco De Mayo date. From Caleb Plant to Billy Joe Saunders and Gennadiy Golovkin to Callum Smith and, most recently, Jermell Charlo, Alvarez has ousted everyone he’s faced ...
The promoter of Alexandro Santiago has had quite a week and believes it will continue. Santiago makes the first defense of his WBC bantamweight title on Saturday, February 24, in Japan against the No. 1 ranked challenger for his belt Junto Nakatani. Santiago won that title last summer against future Hall of Famer Nonito Donaire on the Errol Spence vs. ...
Naoya Inoue has been in the awards again, having been named Japan’s Boxer the of the Year at the annual Japanese Boxing Commission and Sportswriters Club ceremony in Tokyo. The brilliant super bantamweight champion, dubbed ‘The Monster’, enjoyed a brilliant 2023, with decisive wins over Stephen Fulton and Marlon Tapales, and for many he was boxing’s Fighter of the Year. ...
Padraig McCrory believes Edgar Berlanga and his team have made a mistake in picking him to fight this Saturday and that he’s one punch away from changing his life when the unbeaten Super-Middleweights clash at Caribe Royale in Orlando, live worldwide on DAZN. McCrory (18-0 9 KOs) faces-off with Berlanga (21-0 16 KOs) for the first time today (Tuesday) in Orlando as they ...
Former world cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew admits there have been discussions for him to make a return at bridgerweight. Bellew has been in talks to return and fight the WBC bridgerweight champion, Poland’s 15-0 (14 KOs), Lukasz Rozanski, who won the vacant belt by blitzing Alen Babic in a round. That was last April, in Poland, and Rozanski has not ...