Can Berlanga Beat Canelo with a Power Punching Strategy?

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00:00I want to know what you think because I think that poor kid's in for a rough evening.

00:07Well I think almost every expert person in this room leans toward your point of view

00:14because of the style matchup.

00:18Berlanga is a straight ahead power puncher so it appears that his biggest chance to win

00:26the fight beat Canelo is try to hunt him down and nail him with a big shot and score

00:32a knockout.

00:33He's accustomed to knockouts himself.

00:35He began his career with a near record 16 consecutive first round knockouts.

00:42It's an inevitable part of the media relationship to boxing that you score 16 first round knockouts

00:49in a row at the beginning of your career and the vast majority of ringside reporters are

00:54going to say oh that's matchmaking.

00:56That's not real.

00:58And so now he's into the stage of his career where he's trying to prove that he's real.

01:03But is he real enough to be a serious contender against the best and most sophisticated fighter

01:08of the era?

01:09Doesn't look that way.

01:11And most particularly because if you were to size up all right what's the best way to

01:17beat Canelo it certainly isn't to try to hunt him down and knock him out with a power punch.

01:22Canelo has the best punch resistance in the sport proven over and over.

01:28We call it a chin and he does have indeed a fabulous chin but it's also his natural

01:34lower body strength from years and years of horseback riding in addition to his boxing

01:40training.

01:41I have never seen him knocked off balance.

01:44So at the end of the day he has tremendous advantages in that regard.

01:49Great hand skills.

01:50He's a power puncher who is a natural counter puncher by background and nature etc.

01:58All the advantages here belong to Canelo Alvarez.