World flyweight champion Sunny Edwards thinks that victory is possible for John Ryder when he meets Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez tonight.
The fight will be shown live on DAZN and DAZN PPV on Saturday in Mexico, in a homecoming fight for the undisputed super middleweight.
Despite a loss to Dmitry Bivol and surgery last year, Canelo is the overwhelming favourite against his WBO mandatory challenger.
Nonetheless, Edwards sees a way through for his fellow Briton.
“I feel like… Where’s Canelo at right now?” said IBF champion Edwards, reported BoxingScene.com.
“He’s obviously a very, very good fighter but where’s he at this second? Ryder has put in a few good performances, obviously against the likes of Callum Smith.
“There are a few worries, a few losses on there for me, the Billy Joe Saunders loss, a knockout loss to Nick Blackwell. They are not the kind of things you want to see on a record before getting in the ring with Canelo, albeit a long time ago.
“But I think he’s one of the more resilient, tougher fighters at the weight and if anyone’s really going to kind of grind it out, it might be him. He’s built for it.
“I’ve never really seen him hurt too much, I’ve seen him take shots and put in performances at a good level, so is it possible that he could pull it out? Maybe he’s tough enough.
“He’s just built that way where it’s like: ‘Hold on, Canelo doesn’t really dent me as much as [people might have thought]’. And maybe, like a Bivol, it kind of unravels Canelo a little bit, he doesn’t make a dent and then gets picked off a bit and the fight’s closer than he’d want it and then he’s losing it.
“It is a massive ask in Mexico for John Ryder. Do I think Canelo is favoured? 100 per cent. But you’ve got to root for the British man. I would love John to do it.”