Realizing his quantity would by no means be known as for a spot within the Canelo Sweepstakes, secondary WBA tremendous middleweight champion David Morrell Jr will comply with within the footsteps of David Benavidez and transfer as much as 175 to face Radivoje Kalajdzic for the interim belt this coming June.
Per the WBA’s announcement, Morrell (10-0, 9 KO) doesn’t must vacate his present belt till and except he emerges victorious. That’s not essentially a given; “Scorching Rod” (29-2, 21 KO) is on an appropriately scorching 5-0 (4 KO) streak and his solely losses had been a theft break up choice in opposition to Marcus Browne and a KO loss to Artur Beterbiev. That is as powerful if not harder than any of Morrell’s fights at 168.
The larger information is that Edgar Berlanga (22-0, 17 KO), who one way or the other jumped seven spots within the WBA rankings on the energy of stopping Padraig McCrory in February, is now Canelo Alvarez’s obligatory challenger as a substitute of Morrell’s. Canelo and his group have lengthy been eager on assembly Berlanga in what could be arguably Canelo’s weakest matchup since stopping Avni Yildirim, and a minimum of that had the excuse of Yildirim being contractually owed a title shot after his controversial bout with Anthony Dirrell.
It could be a particularly WBA factor to do in the event that they sat on Morrell’s assured title shot for years after which instantly gave it to Berlanga, and my guess is that’s what we’re getting.
