After Canelo Alvarez and Edgar Berlanga’s latest performances, Peter Klein discusses the next steps for both fighters. Who should they face next, and how could these matchups impact the boxing world? Get the full breakdown of potential fights after Canelo vs. Berlanga.
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00:00All right, Canelo Alvarez coming off of another win this weekend as he beat Edgar Berlanga.
00:14And so my question is, who should he fight next?
00:18But before we get into that, I do want to get back to, I don't know if I'm saying this
00:24right, but Sakuragi himself is in the chat.
00:27But what year did you watch HBO Boxing for the first time?
00:30So I grew up, you can probably tell from the CFL talk we just had, I grew up in Saskatchewan,
00:37and small town Saskatchewan.
00:39We did not have access to HBO.
00:41So my first HBO was probably 2009 when I moved to Toronto from Calgary.
00:50When I lived out here the first time I was with a roommate and I didn't have a ton of
00:55say over the cable things.
00:58I was moving in his place.
01:00It's not like he was weird, it was his place.
01:03But neither here nor there.
01:05So anyway, yeah, 2009 when I moved out to Toronto.
01:09Had HBO as part of the TV package.
01:12And so got to watch all of that stuff.
01:14And so that is in the Mayweather Pacquiao kind of time there.
01:20But also, it was like Super Channel or something like that in Canada.
01:26But it was the Showtime fights, but those were the Showtime fights.
01:34And so between all of those it was like Andre Ward and the Super 6 series and stuff like
01:39that.
01:40So that was kind of my introduction to HBO Boxing for real for real, aside from just
01:44like different clips that you would see.
01:45But yeah, Sakuragi saying 2002 was his time watching HBO Lennox Lewis against Mike Tyson.
01:53Manny Pacquiao fought on the undercard.
01:56That is an excellent time, for sure, in the world of HBO Boxing.
01:59And I really do wish it was back.
02:00I know I did this rant on the weekend.
02:03But when we ordered it, it was, we couldn't order, there was an issue with DAZN, so we
02:10couldn't get the DAZN broadcast, so we just ordered it on the cable pay-per-view.
02:14And that, I'm led to believe, is the Amazon product.
02:18Moro Ranallo was phenomenal, as always.
02:21The rest of the broadcast was just horrendous.
02:24The color commentators, it didn't feel like they had a real mesh with Moro all that well.
02:29There were some pretty obvious audio issues.
02:32They just had to restart an interview with Canelo Alvarez at one point, which is just
02:37like they missed an edit.
02:39But still, when you have that many eyeballs, and you have Canelo Alvarez, like, the biggest
02:45star in the sport, and you are putting on his pay-per-view, I don't care that Amazon's
02:51the B-team.
02:52That needs to be better.
02:53And so it did, to the point earlier.
02:57It did make me long for the days of HBO.
02:59And yes, like, Moro, amazing.
03:02But like, the Lampley, and Kellerman, and all of those guys, and that era.
03:07It made me long for that coverage, because it was just all so tight, always.
03:11And like, DAZN, it hasn't really had that feel, ever, to me.
03:15And Amazon certainly didn't.
03:18And so that was just, it was a frustration.
03:19Like if you're going to, we're already kind of in agreement that Canelo against Berlonga
03:25isn't really a $90 fight.
03:27At least give me $90 for the production value.
03:30But they didn't even give me that.
03:31So that was a bit frustrating.
03:32Anyway, fights to make, coming out of Canelo Alvarez and Berlonga.
03:36For Canelo, I, it just, it has to be David Benavidez next.
03:40It just, it simply has to be.
03:42That there is no other fight you can make, and still convince me that Canelo is trying
03:49to be a competitive boxer in 2024, or 2025, when the next fight is going to be.
03:54There is only one.
03:55It can only be David Benavidez.
03:58I know there's been some talk that he is paying very close attention to the Better
04:02Be A Vival fight that is coming up next month.
04:04Don't.
04:05I mean, I'll watch it.
04:06It's probably going to be a fun fight.
04:07But don't.
04:08Don't.
04:09Don't do that.
04:10Don't do that.
04:11Um.
04:12Benavidez, for so long, has earned this title shot, and earned this opportunity of this
04:16big statement.
04:17I think this has to be Canelo.
04:19Um.
04:20Canelo's next fight.
04:21And if it's not, again, I don't think this is going to do irreparable damage to
04:24his legacy, or anything like that.
04:26But it's just going to get a lot of groans from the boxing watching community.
04:31In terms of Berlonga, uh, I do think that he deserves another good stage.
04:36I thought that, like, while one-sided, but he at least had a bit of a decent showing
04:41of himself.
04:42And so, why not look to the same card?
04:44Caleb Plant.
04:45Let's go.
04:46Um.
04:47Both guys, I think, would fight in a really interesting way.
04:49Both guys fought this weekend, so there is some buzz on their names anyway.
04:53Um.
04:54Plant seemed to get quite a bit of fan support.
04:56So I think that this is a fight that you could make, and a fight that would get a lot of
04:59people very excited.
05:00Um.
05:01And so, an interesting bout, so to speak, for that one.
05:05So those, those are the fights I would make, coming out of the Canelo pay-per-view here
05:10this weekend.
05:11Um.
05:12Sakuragi himself.
05:13Uh.
05:14Jim Lampley, Roy Jones Jr., George Foreman, Emanuel Stewart, Max Kellerman, and Larry
05:18Merchant.
05:19Legendary.
05:20Yeah.
05:21Oh, going to Larry Merchant's, um, scorecard.
05:22He's like, let me tell you, Jim!
05:25Um.
05:26And he goes into it.
05:27Um.
05:28George Foreman, before he was like, hot take guy, um, I thought he was one of the best
05:32in boxing.
05:33Um.
05:34I do think that he kind of got into a little bit more of the hot take-y stuff as things
05:37kind of went along, and he kind of learned how to play that.
05:40But I do think that he is a very smart analyst when it comes to the sport.
05:44Emanuel Stewart, obviously amazing.
05:45Roy Jones Jr.'s fun.
05:47Um.
05:48George Foreman, legend.
05:49Like, all of those, that whole time, just, just spectacular.
05:53And just the whole presentation, right?
05:55And even some of the shoulder programming, right?
05:57Like the, the, um, HBO 24-7.
06:00I'll still watch some of those, for fights that happened a decade ago.
06:02Because it's just so well done.
06:04And there's a lot of properties now that try to match what those guys did, but it just
06:09doesn't compare to the HBO 24-7.
06:12And NOTHING, um, production-wise, has compared to what HBO was able to do with the, like
06:20the, um, Sakuragi said, the following.
06:23It's a presentation of HBO sports.
06:26And you have, like, some big knockouts that are happening, and then a, yeah, at the end
06:30of the thing.
06:31And it just, it's all, it's so professional.
06:34And so very, very well done.
06:35So yeah, I, maybe I'm romanticizing it a little bit, but, um, Sakuragi, you definitely got
06:40me in the feels with that one, because that was something we were talking about when I
06:44was watching it.
06:45Um, my favorite, Larry mentioned it online, I wish I was 50 years younger, I would kick
06:49your ass.
06:50Oh, that was amazing!
06:51When he got into it.
06:52You don't know shit about boxing!