After a slow weekend, boxing is back with two consecutive weeks of PPV action.
It all starts Saturday (Sept 14) with the $89.99 Canelo-Berlanga PPV this Saturday in Las Vegas. Canelo is an 18:1 favorite to retain his WBC/WBA/WBO belts. Other bout feature middleweight champ Erislandy Lara against Danny “Swift” García, Caleb Plant against undefeated Trevor McCumby, and Rolando “Rolly” Romero against Manuel Jaimes.
The following Saturday (Sept 21) is a $19.99 PPV headlined by Daniel Dubois defending his IBF heavyweight title against former champ Anthony Joshua in London. Joshua is a 5:1 favorite to dethrone Dubois. Other bouts include Anthony Cacace versus Josh Warrington for the IBF super featherweight title and Joshua Buatsi versus Willy Hutchinson for the WBO interim light heavyweight title.
I don’t know anyone putting money on Berlanga. He has power, but nowhere near the skills to pull off a Buster Douglas.
Look for some explosive action in the first two or three rounds. If Berlanga can’t put a dent in him he’ll probably try to box and try to survive.
I would rather see Berlanga vs Munguía. They both look like it’s just a matter of time.
The $19.99 PPV is a better card than the $89.99 ripoff. More than 5 to 1 odds is a misnatch; 18 to 1 is an atrocity.
$89.99 is absolutely hilarious.
Amazing how Canelo and the powers that be think this PPV is worth $90 bucks right?! He refused to fight both Benavidez and Morrell, but yet they expect us to shell out that kind of money!! Lo siento!! Keeping my hard earned money in my pocket
It does seem a bit pricey in today’s economy. Inflation, right?
Not really Blunderbuss Plus, he’s been charging up to $100 ppv for a few fights now. Since before inflation. Heck I wouldn’t be surprised they complain they underpriced it.
Key words “huge betting favorite” are an over statement. More like “huge betting favorite no doubt”.
Scooby, the poor quality of the fight cards, combined with the outrageous prices, pushes boxing to the far fringes of the sports world. The poor quality of the matches limits the viewership to the shrinking number of hardcore fans.
A large percentage of fans are excluded by the high prices. The young people, the poor, the lower middleclass and those on fixed incomes simply cannot afford to watch boxing.
While boxing will never die, it will continue to pushed to oblivion.
Scooby, the poor quality of the fight cards, combined with the outrageous prices, pushes boxing to the far fringes of the sports world. The poor quality of the matches limits the viewership to the shrinking number of hardcore fans.
A large percentage of fans are excluded by the high prices. The young people, the poor, the lower middleclass and those on fixed incomes simply cannot afford to watch boxing.
While boxing will never die, it will continue to be pushed to oblivion.
Thank you, Tex good points.
Anyone gonna pay 90 dollars for this garbage when this sissy Canela should be fighting David Benavidez instead.
If the undercard was better maybe. I could care less about Romero. Lara and Garcia I like but I’m not interested in seeing that match.
Yeah, he is a huge betting favorite for fighting an untested fighter, who has struggled against average competition. The promoters are relying this being a Mexico -PR war when it’s anything but. I say canelo ko in six or seven. Berlanga gets paid for being a punching bag.
this one is not even worth 89 pesos.
Sad but true.
Belanga is talking a good game. Talking doesn’t win fights…but he does have the right dimensions to win the fight. Height, reach, power. But skillwise? Not sold on him. Didn’t do enough to earn the fight.
– Thank you, again, Amazon Fire Stick…………..
What does $89.99 buy me (other than the Alvarez/Berlanga PPV) ???
– 1 can lump crabmeat = $20.
– 2lbs 21/25 per pound shrimp = $16.
– 2lbs bone-in ribeye steak = $26.
– 1 case Moosehead Canadian Lager = $26
Total = $88 and a meal fit for a King and Queen…………
Good posting…..Love it
Canelo has been a managed fighter his entire career, except his lost to Floyd Mayweather. Catch weights, rehydration clause, old opposition it goes on. They were fool the public to think that this guy is a great fighter. Look at his record not win loss but the opposition.
A rehydration clause in boxing refers to a contractual agreement that limits the amount of weight a fighter can gain after the official weigh-in. This clause is often used by fighters to prevent their opponents from gaining a significant weight advantage on the fight night, which could potentially impact the fairness of the bout. So when a fighter like Canelo or any other like Floyd Mayweather Jr. puts on a rehydration clause they trying to keep the fight fair and within the weight limit for their fight. It’s not a bad thing. It prevents a fighter weighing in at or near 175 light heavyweight instead of super middleweight at 168. Canelo will weight in at 166 or 167 for this fight. Both fighters wont be above 168. This actually means the fight will be fair. There are weight classes for a reason. If he ever fights Benavidez Canelo will most definitely place a rehydration clause on Benavidez so he wont weight 1 or 2 weight classes above the agreed weight. Canelo has a HOF resume the best i nthe sport. The man he has fought some of the top fighters.
It’s not fair at all as it’s only something so-called “A-side” fighters can impose (much like drug testing). If you made the weight then that’s the rules, not what some prima donna decides they are because it suits them at the time.
So the other side is
1- When Canelo fight with fighters from lower weights or barely 158 lbs, then why Canelo doesn’t put a,weight clause to prevent him from having the unfair advantage?
2- when Bivol defeated Canelo at 175 lbs, Bivol stated he will fight Canelo at 168 for his title, Canelo said he will take the rematch, and 3 doritos later we have Canelo v Berlanga
There is no reason for putting a weight clause on a lower weight class fighters like Charlo, Crawford or whatever because they will barely make the weight. So there for preventing an unfair advantage isn’t present in those fights then say fighting someone already bigger than you like Benavidez who has been a weight bully his whole career. A weight clause on those naturally bigger fighters prevents an unfair advantage. If your don’t understand that your an idiot. Canelo is fighting Berlanga because he’s Canelo’s mandatory challenger. Canelo already dropped 1 title for refusing to fight his other mandatory challenger William Scull. Berlanga is a better fight than Scull at that. We don’t have Benavidez because he refused to fight Canelo. Benavidez was given two extensions to decide to activate and fight Canelo for Undisputed and he refused. He decided to stay at 175. That moved Scull up the latter as his next in line mandatory and Canelo refused gave up a belt and took Berlanga his other mandatory instead. Get your facts straight. Many bias boxing casuals like yourself always thinks Canelo is ducking or not a great fighter. The man hasn’t ducked anyone. He is already a future first ballot HOF fighter even if he decided to retire today. His resume is the best in boxing.
Canelo beat Floyd
Just watch the fight
Don’t watch the highlights
Ancient history, bro.
Hearns won his rematch with Leonard
but they called it something else, and
nobody seems to care. Samey same.
Carlos, are you smokin’ crack? It’s either that or you had your lips sowed to Canelo’s nuts so often during that fight that you didn’t see Floyd landing potshots and flurries while Canelo was swatting air all night long. Wait a minute, now I get it…you’re CJ Ross using the moniker “Carlos” as your cover, ain’t that right? Eh, who gives a crap…that was over ten years ago.
canelo is in a shit fight that nobody wants to see. this crap should be on espn cable for $0. anyone that pays for this, is not only a sucker, but is hurting the chances of canelo ever fighting a meaningful fight. the face of boxing should only be matched with challenges that matter, or fight on free tv..
Let me get this straight. The better card is $70 less? I’m all in for Dubois-Joshua. As for the Canelo fight, hard pass.
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90 bucks is a little too high but looking at the undercards. We have some familiar names .. decent matchups. Seem like a good night of boxing. I think if it was $50-60 it would’ve been reasonable. It’s overpriced considering the main event is so lopsided. Even though it’s still boxing anything can happen.. the chances of that is very slim when you look at who’s fighting.
Canelo and his handlers are trying to rob fight fans, period.
And anyone shelling out $90 for this crap are out of their minds. Glorified sparring session for that kind of money in these times, foh!
Berlanga is going to come out swinging fullforce in round 1! Canelo will just let him feel a bit comfortable till he drops him with a nasty uppercut in the second round! From there on, it will be survival mode for berlanga! It will be punishing time till canelo decides to close the show via career endind brutal K.O. of the century in the 8th!
christ thats 122 dollars canadian. like are the out of their absolute minds.
but ill gladly spend the 19.99pv for joshua dubois – thats very reasonable.