In challenging unified super middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez on September 14, live on DAZN, Edgar Berlanga is leaving no stones unturned.
Episode 1 of BERLANGA CAMP: Chasing Greatness, uploaded onto his YouTube page recently, shows a glimpse of how Berlanga is training for the biggest fight of his life, working on everything from mastering distance with his jab to learning how to control his breathing and activating his quick-twitch muscles.
"Edgar's looking good, he's pretty much ahead," Berlanga's head trainer Marc Farrait says in the video. "His weight looks good, his conditioning looks amazing and today we're going to do a lot of quick-twitch muscles in regards to a lot of catch and shoots, working his distance, keeping his leverage, staying out of traps, making sure he gets over after he throws a combination.
"And make sure that that lead hand is always out," he continued, "keeping Canelo as much at bay as possible."
To that, Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs), who is later seen sprinting in the clip, says his jab will be vital toward his chances to pull off what would be considered a massive upset.
"Everybody that beat him convincingly, beat him with a jab," Berlanga says. "And distance."
To date, Alvarez (61-2-2, 39 KOs) only counts two defeats on his pro ledger — to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in September 2013 and Dmitry Bivol in May 2022 — and both men had success against him with the jab. Gennadiy Golovkin also had success with his power jab against Alvarez across their trilogy of bouts, especially their original match which was ruled a controversial split draw in a fight that many thought GGG did enough to have his hand raised.
The inside look at Berlanga's training camp also shows the Brooklyn, New York fighter alternating with an oxygen mask on and off with Farrait imploring: "You should have no problem going back out there every round. The only problem you're going to have is if you don't lock in and understand when you come into that round, what happened in the three minutes [before] you gotta forget that. You gotta say 'let me just go recover in 30 seconds, 40 seconds so I could get ready to go back out there.'"
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