
Saul "Canelo" Alvarez: record, next fight and profile →


I haven’t written a pay-per-view running diary in about 13 or 14 years, since I was filing weekly online columns for The Ring, but the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga pay-per-view, plus the Prime Video preshow — seven fights spread across some 6½ hours — presented a fine opportunity to get the gang back together and give the running diary another shot.

“Now what are they gonna say?” Canelo Alvarez said after beating Edgar Berlanga. “They say I don't fight young fighters. They always talk. But I'm the best fighter in the world.”

Saul "Canelo" Alvarez authored yet another brilliantly calculating, if less than spectacular, performance in outpointing Edgar Berlanga on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

On Saturday at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez beat Edgar Berlanga, retained his lineal super middleweight championship and remains the unquestioned best in the 168-pound division.

Saul "Canelo" Alvarez picked apart Edgar Berlanga on Saturday at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena to earn a 12-round unanimous decision and defend his two super middleweight belts.

Edgar Berlanga’s got a good record, and he’s a marketable fighter. But even when he had some momentum he didn’t seem the right next challenger for the super middleweight title.

Teofimo Lopez Jr. stopped by the Saul "Canelo" Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga weigh-in Friday to update reporters on his happenings after a recent whirlwind of activity and speculation.

Let’s look at the potential storylines that will come out of Saturday's Saul "Canelo" Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga PPV. What are the implications for each man in the case of a win or a loss?

“The greatest line of boxing commentary I ever heard was not from a professional boxing commentary.” Jim Lampley, for so long the voice of HBO Boxing and now the purveyor with BoxingScene’s Lance Pugmire of live text commentary for PPV.com, is sitting in the media center at the MGM Grand contemplating this Saturday’s super middleweight meeting between Canelo Alvarez and Edgar Berlanga when he begins a reminiscence that will allow him to illustrate the point he is about to make.