today, Canelo Alvarez He only confirmed that he would face Edgar Berlanga on September 14 Nothing has been confirmed in and after Las Vegas, although the unified super middleweight champion has no shortage of suitors. In recent times, two ‘boyfriends’ have been mainly attributed to her: David Benavidez and Terence Crawford. In favor of the latter, apart from playing to his impeccable pedigree, a priori has the support of the new boxing leader Sheikh in the duel. Turkish AlalshikhAlthough accepting statistics is a tricky issue.
It is true that the last few hours have been very hectic The WBO has officially ordered Sebastian Fundora to defend his WBC and WBO super welterweight world titles in a unification fight against Crawford. ‘Bud’ currently holds the WBA Championship belt in the division, which he took from Israel Madrimov, and also holds the WBO interim title.
Promoter of Pandora, Sampson LewkovichThe Omaha native doesn’t think he’ll accept the challenge, as he insists he’s focused on the big money he could get if he faces Canelo. It was confirmed in the summer Fundora made a deal to face Errol SpenceHe has been negotiating with him for months and will now have to abandon this route and go against Crawford if he does not want to hand the WBO champion title directly to his opponent. Spence’s choice wasn’t bad, but ‘Bud” was much better.
And how does this affect Canelo? After facing Berlanga, if everything goes his way, he won’t be back in the ring until May 2025 as usual. Boxing scene They got a reaction from the Jalisco native about how the anticipated fight against Crawford is shaping up, now that he’s tasked with facing Fundora: “I’m not saying the fight (against Crawford) won’t happen. The order doesn’t matter.”. After September 14, the panorama will become clearer and perhaps in 2025 we will see a great duel. However, Terrence would benefit from testing himself at super middleweight before fighting the king of the division.
