OUTSIDE of perhaps Edgar Berlanga himself, there was probably no one more ecstatic over the Puerto Rican’s sixth round stoppage of Padraig McCrory at the Caribe Royal (Matchroom promoted) than Canelo Alvarez. The Mexican superstar has been accused of entering a phase in his career where he’s only interested in having high reward-low risk fights. In Berlanga he gets more than that, a big payday in which Alvarez would have virtually no chance of losing. Better, it can be marketed to a public which has now become so gullible that they can be sold anything based on hype.
We were told by promoter Eddie Hearn, and
