Tony Bellew has backed Saul “Canelo” Alvarez to knock out Artur Beterbiev if the boxing champions go head-to-head.
Canelo turned the game’s first undisputed tremendous middleweight title holder in November, stopping Caleb Plant to assert the IBF belt that had eluded him.
The Mexican, who has held quite a few titles throughout numerous weight courses, is about to make his cruiserweight debut towards Ilunga Makabu subsequent yr. Some followers want to see Canelo return to gentle heavyweight sooner or later, nevertheless, with undefeated Russian Beterbiev a possible opponent.
Whereas some anticipate the doable bout with intrigue, former cruiserweight champion Bellew has mentioned Beterbiev has proven sufficient indicators of weak spot to counsel that Canelo would end the WBC and IBF gentle heavyweight title holder.
“I believe Canelo would cease Beterbiev, I’ve seen the warning indicators there already,” Bellew instructed DAZN. “I’ve seen the photographs that he may be harm with.”
Bellew highlighted Canelo’s earlier outing at gentle heavyweight as proof that the 31-year-old’s energy would carry as much as the burden class.
“It did towards Sergey Kovalev,” the Briton mentioned. “If it does with Kovalev then I believe it should with Beterbiev.
“However as I mentioned, it’s types [that] make fights.”
Canelo fought Kovalev in November 2019, stopping Beterbiev’s fellow Russian within the eleventh spherical to win the WBO gentle heavyweight title.
Beterbiev, 36, fought Marcus Browne on Saturday, knocking out the American within the ninth spherical.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
