Edgar ‘The Chosen One’ Berlanga slams Canelo Alvarez for pushing for his or her upcoming boxing fight to happen on the identical day as UFC 306: O’Malley vs Dvalishvili – admits that he’d have preferred if the bout had been pushed back a fortnight so each events had their likelihood to shine.
Whilst Canelo Alvarez doubles down on his desire to outshine the upcoming ‘once in a lifetime’ MMA PPV at The Sphere in Las Vegas, his next opponent has the exact opposite opinion; even criticizing the enduring Mexican boxer for not pushing their fight back a number of weeks.
Edgar Berlanga slams Canelo for pushing for same date as UFC 306
27-year-old Edgar Berlanga has the possibility to shock the world on September 14, Mexican Independence Day weekend, when he takes on the legendary Canelo Alvarez for 3 world title belts.
Yet that exact same night, only just down the road in Las Vegas, the UFC will probably be hosting one in every of the most important (and definitely the costliest) PPV of all time with UFC 306 at The Sphere, headlined by Sean O’Malley vs Merab Dvalishvili for the bantamweight championship.
Whilst Alvarez has been vocal about his desire to see his boxing showcase outsell and outshine the UFC Noche PPV card, Edgar Berlanga believes that the fitting decision was to postpone their clash by a number of weeks.
Talking to Kamaru Usman and Henry Cejudo via the Pound-4-Pound podcast, Berlanga explained that he has the utmost respect for the MMA promotion; and that respect must have been translated into the dates of the 2 respective events.
“I’m not going to lie man, because I got a whole lot of respect for the UFC, Dana White, and also you guys because the fighters – I respect you guys so much, warriors similar to us but I’ve seen you guys throw elbows and knees to the face like God rattling I ain’t never going into that s***.
“But when I used to be in Canelo’s shoes, personally me, I’d have said ‘Yo let’s push this date up, let’s push it one other two weeks and provides the UFC their shine – they’re making history that day, and we’re make history, but we’ll push it up two weeks’.”
In line with the 22-0 title challenger, the rationale why his boxing fight with Alvarez stuck with the clashing September 14 date is that the Mexican icon has “an excessive amount of pride”, as evidenced by his ongoing feud with Turki Alalshikh.
“Canelo’s a man who’s got an excessive amount of pride, you’ve seen him go forwards and backwards with Turki and stuff, he seems like he’s the cash man, he’s like ‘F*** the UFC, f*** Turki’ and all that, ‘That is my event and my day’ – you recognize what I’m saying?
“Personally, I’d have pushed us up two weeks, just to present you guys that shot – especially cause you guys called the day first… It’s not like he had the day, you had the entire card arrange, the venue and every part so it’s out of respect man.”
Regarding the back-and-forth with Turki Alalshikh, who’s bankrolling the UFC 306 event as a part of Riyadh Season, Berlanga noted that that’s not a fight that Canelo can win.
“You possibly can’t go against the guy, this guy has major money man and also you’re going up against him man, you’re firing him [up] in order that guy goes to do essentially the most to try to accumulate that event [UFC 306] to be essentially the most craziest event.
“But it surely is what it’s, we just got to concentrate on September 14 on my event and I just got to come back out victorious in order that once I do win, times like this, I could push the UFC event [back myself].”
Edgar Berlanga teases fans can ‘expect fireworks’ when he faces Canelo
Whilst Berlanga was open and honest about his desire to see his boxing fight stand alone, relatively than clashing with UFC 306, there’s nothing left to be done but prepare for ‘fireworks’ on September 14.
Actually, that’s exactly what Berlanga told Usman and Cejudo on the podcast; that fans can expect fireworks when he steps into the ring against the 61-2-2 champion.
“September 14, the people ought to be expecting fireworks, it’s going to be an enormous event, Mexico vs Puerto Rico, fireworks – we’re coming to fight and now’s my time to stamp my name on the game of boxing, put my name up there with the highest dogs – and change into a legend myself.
“I got the chance, a whole lot of guys get their first title shot for one belt, we’re getting my first title shot for 3 belts – that’s history right there, I don’t think there’s a fighter that’s ever fought their first title fight for 3 belts against a legend.”
“Right there alone, that’s history right there,” noted Berlanga, along with his title fight vs Canelo Alvarez scheduled for September 14 via Amazon Prime Video.
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