Canelo Alvarez isn't looking to simply hand Edgar Berlanga the first loss of his career, he's gunning to physically hurt the undefeated fighter, telling us he wants to "bring him pain!"
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00:00We're a month away, exactly a month away now.
00:04How is training going?
00:05How you feeling, man?
00:06Great, my friend.
00:07I'm, you know, I always train 100% and I feel great.
00:12I'm ready for this Saturday.
00:13I mean, yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun.
00:16You go back to Vegas, T-Mobile Arena, obviously, you know, a Mexican Independence Day weekend.
00:21It's a weekend that you often do fight.
00:24How about the importance of that, though, Canelo, it being just two days before Independence
00:28Day?
00:29You know, for me, it's always great to represent my country on those days.
00:34I always try to fight in those days because it's important for me and for my Mexican fans.
00:43So I'm glad to be here.
00:45I'm glad to fight in May and September.
00:51And I'm very honored.
00:54Give me the scouting report on Edgar.
00:57He's a relatively young guy, obviously, he's 22 and he's got 17 knockouts.
01:01He had that knockout streak to start his career.
01:04What do you make of Edgar Berlanga?
01:07What's he good at?
01:08What's he not good at?
01:09No, he's good.
01:10He's strong.
01:11He's young.
01:12He's hungry.
01:13But, you know, he's nothing new for me.
01:15I've been in there with all the kind of fighters, difficult fighters, strong fighters.
01:22And I'm just going to go there and do my business.
01:28You fought guys who are big punchers before.
01:31I mean, you fought, you know, Gennady three times, Sergey Kovalev, I mean, Danny Jacobs.
01:38Do you think that Edgar, and obviously you haven't been in there with him yet, but do
01:42you think that Edgar is the biggest puncher that you faced in your career or who have
01:45you faced guys who have more power?
01:47I don't know, my friend.
01:48I don't know yet.
01:49You tell me after the fight?
01:51Yeah, I'm going to find out September 14th.
01:53But, you know, I'm strong.
01:56I'm strong and I'm looking to do my best there and let him feel so much pain.
02:07So I'm focused on that.
02:11I saw he said something like, Canelo should be careful, I knock out heavyweights in training.
02:17Does that concern you at all?
02:18Me too.
02:19So I'm not heavyweight, but I'm more stronger than them.
02:26I believe that too.
02:28When you see it going, I mean, do you see it, do you believe you can get him out of
02:32there quick?
02:33I mean, is it something where you think he's resilient and it goes to the scorecards likely?
02:37How do you imagine the fight turns out?
02:40I don't know how quick, but I'm going to do my job and I'm going to try to let him
02:48feel so much pain and then knock out him.
02:54What would you say to Edgar Canelo if he's watching this?
03:07What's the message to him 30 days before you go in there with him?
03:11Nothing.
03:12He already know.
03:13He already know and he's going to need a really good camp.
03:18So I hope he prepare himself really well because he's going to need it.
03:25Do you think that he's in over his head here?
03:28There's fighting good fighters and then there's fighting Canelo Alvarez and now he's fighting
03:32Canelo Alvarez.
03:33Like I say to everybody, it's not the same fight with other fighters like fighting with
03:38me and he's going to find out September 14th.