Canelo drops, routs game Berlanga to retain unified 168 title
Mexican superstar triumphs in Puerto Rican rivalry fight
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LAS VEGAS — Canelo Alvarez may not have gotten the knockout he wanted but he mastered Edgar Berlanga, knocking him down, landing a mountain of power shots, and cruising to a one-sided unanimous decision to retain the unified and lineal super middleweight title in the PBC on Prime Video pay-per-view Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena.
Alvarez, boxing’s biggest star, whose KO drought stretched to six fights in a row, nonetheless won easily, 118-109, 118-109 and 117-110, much to the delight of the sold-out pro Canelo crowd of 20,312 on Mexican Independence Day weekend. Fight Freaks Unite scored it 120-107 for Alvarez, who made his eighth super middleweight title defense and added another win for Mexico in its storied boxing rivalry with Puerto Rico.
“I did good,” Alvarez said. “Now what are they gonna say? They said I don’t fight young fighters. They always talk, but I’m the best fighter in the world.
“My experience, my talent, my hard work (was the difference). Everything together, because if you have a talent and you don’t have discipline you have nothing. If you have discipline and you don’t have talent you have nothing. So you need to combine both and hard work.”
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