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Canelo Álvarez, Terence Crawford need each other if they won’t fight top opponents in respective divisions

The unusually long embrace Saul “Canelo” Álvarez and Edgar Berlanga shared as soon as the final bell sounded Saturday night signified that the brave Berlanga earned Álvarez’s respect during a 12-round fight that initially looked like it would end much earlier.

Álvarez blasted Berlanga with a flush left hook that dropped the huge underdog to the seat of his trunks barely a minute into the third round. Brooklyn’s Berlanga banged his gloves together in frustration, fought out of that trouble and remained on his feet throughout a fight BetMGM listed Álvarez as a 16-1 favorite to win.

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