Edgar Berlanga vs. Roamer Alexis Angulo | The Scorecard with Cedric Benn

Cedirc discusses his scorecard from Edgar Berlanga vs. Roamer Alexis Angulo. Edgar Berlanga got a win over Roamer Alexis Angulo, but the judges may have scored it too wide. Also, he tried to bite him at one point.

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What up what up, what up good morning, good morning, welcome to the scorecard the boxing scorecard, where i ask you to bring your scorecard and an explanation, not just your opinion.

Alright! So last night, the featured bout of the evening was for the world boxing organization.

Nabo super middleweight title um: the challenger was romer alexis angulo from colombia, sporting a record of 27 and two uh with 23 knockouts um.

So this is he’s one of those guys that that kind of fell under the radar um.

Obviously, you can tell you know 23 knockouts out of 27 fights um, you know so obviously he has power in his punches uh but fell under the radar, because you know one of those guys that when it comes to the business part of it, you know he’s Uh he he’s what you’d be considered: um a high risk, but low reward uh fight.

So you wouldn’t get paid a lot, because not a people, not a lot of people, know him and it’s a high risk because he’s a power puncher with uh with some good skills.

He only had two losses on his career um and his only two losses was to that was to david benavidez, who i’ve been saying for a while is, is the the person that i believe can beat canelo um at 168 and his other loss was was to Uh gilberto ramirez who’s that light who’s, one of the top guys at light heavyweight right now.

So those were his only two losses.

So um, you know, romer alexis angulo under the radar might not think he’s good, but a very, very good boxer, and then we had the champion coming in edgar the chosen one berlanga yeah we’re gon na pause on this one here, the chosen one berlanga 25 years Old out of new york uh coming into this fight, he was 19-0 with 16 knockouts um yeah yeah yeah 19-0, with 16 knockouts.

Now you can see the tail of the tape they’re, both at the same height and gula, with a little bit of a longer reach, and then the only question going in, i said: angular slipped under the radar.

You know he’s been avoided for his whole career um, but you know he’s 38 years old.

That’S that’s the that’s! The only kind of question mark i had going into this fight.

You know in real life, 38 years old is not old, but in an athlete’s age.

That’S a lot of mileage on a lot of mileage on the on on your body at uh, especially in boxing, so i wasn’t sure how this was going to turn out next slide, please so, just to give a little bit of background on uh.

Mr balangas he’s he’s 16-0, which is coming.

You see a lot of guys.

You know good guys that come out of the amateurs, not just amateurs, but you know there’s a lot of guys that go 16-0 um, but the path to to his 16-0 was was a lot different.

Um he’s sorry.

His path to 19-0 was a lot different 16 out of his 19 fights were first round knockouts like first round chaos.

Now, for those that don’t know the way you start out when you’re in your professional career, it starts out four rounds.

Six rounds, eight rounds, ten and then twelve, your first couple of fights or four rounds, probably your first four or five fights so his first five fights were four rounders.

You know, even if one of those is a first round knockout, you like you, it’s okay for you to go two or three rounds, just to get your feet wet at the professional ranks.

When you get to your sixth fight um.

That’S when you that’s! When you start to do six rounds right an extra two rounds, it doesn’t seem like a lot, but it does make a difference.

Those two rounds does make a difference with slightly slightly better competition.

So again, instead of going to three rounds, you know now you’re going.

Maybe three or four rounds out of those six you’re still expected to win, but you know you’re you’re still getting some experience.

Sorry with the light like going crazy here, um you’re still getting that experience, the professional experience doing doing those rounds.

Um then, when you get to your 10th fight, that’s when you’re starting to go uh eight rounds with your with your opponents again slightly better competition and um and testing yourself out from there so but again, burlanga the first time that he went over.

You know past the first round was in a 17th fight.

So, even though he’s in his you know teenage numbers when it comes to fighting experience like in real, like professional experience, he’s kind of still a novice, if you think about it like if he, if his first four fights as a professional remember.

I just explained this before if his first four fights are four rounds.

If he went the distance in those four four fights, he would have as many rounds as he did in his 16 fights.

Oh sorry, four yeah four fights four times: 4 16 right yeah.

So if he went the distance in his first four fights that that would have been as many rounds as he’s done in his current in his uh in his 16 fights when he had 16 first round knockouts right now in between then there’s there’s all those other Fights so again, even though he’s 16-0 um that 16-0 is, is still low experience when it comes to the professional level um.

Now we can get now we can get into the fight with the other slides.

Now this this fight similar to last week.

This was a this was a shout out for berlanga, however, that these these numbers are, you know, don’t tell exactly how the how the story went um, because i scored every round.

I scored every round for baralanga, but you know the story didn’t show exactly how the how the numbers went so again to the next slides and you can just uh, let it let it run normal from here, um so round.

One bralang controlled it with boxing with his good, educated, jab and footwork.

You can tell that in it when he had his other fights.

He was just you so used to just taking people out.

That’S all he was looking for and he was he wasn’t, making it a secret.

That’S what he’s trying to do just to come and finish this fight as soon as possible.

That’S what people were expecting him to do um and he was making it too obvious.

This fight, i appreciated how he used an educated jab, not just randomly, throwing it out there using an educated jab to find to find angular as opponent and very good footwork moving around the ring.

That was the first round, even though i marked it as close round, because angular was still coming hard forward.

Um, i gave it to brilanga second round.

Berlanga is not blatantly looking my notes, so i’m reading my notes and going off from their second round burlanga.

He wasn’t blatantly looking for the ko he’s, actually boxing very good, which was opposite to his other fights like i said where he was used to just coming after you and finishing it off real quick third round uh burlanga looked very good, very composed and very smart.

Like he’s, he was boxing very good.

He showed you know as an amateur he’s been boxing since he was like nine ten years old, so he does have a deep amateur experience, not a um high level international experience, but did have a lot of fights.

You know he they kind of developed, developed him into having a pro style early, which doesn’t really work at the amateur level, but um like i said 16-0, so it worked for me at the pro so far um round.

Four is where things started to to uh.

To go a little bit shaky for mr berlanga, and it was the perfect timing for this slide to come in here.

Bralanga started leaking not a lot.

They started leaking from his nose um.

He decided to sit down more this round.

He got caught a few times and did not look as comfortable as he did in in the first three rounds.

Um again, i still gave it to burlanga, but you know angela angulo did make it uncomfortable for him um.

I uh i uh going into round four and i sorry i marked round round four yeah round four close round going into round five.

I also marked it as a close round.

Um bralanga he wasn’t having angula was not showing any effect from from rilang’s punches uh bralanga he was jabbing and and but angular was not respecting it.

This is angular right here.

He wasn’t his respecting bra language’s, punches and just simply walking through um, but angulo.

Brandulo was not counter punching so, and gula was coming forward, showing that burlang’s punches were not having as much an effect on him, but at the same time, angular was not taking advantage of that of that opportunity.

That berlanga was kind of giving him um going into round six berlin.

My notes around six exactly were um.

Berlany is lucky that this guy’s 38 years old um the way that the way that berlany started the fight.

I thought he would pick it up from the momentum that he had, but the the momentum is kind of going.

The other way around and google had the momentum, but again was not taken up on picking up on that opportunity to do that round.

Seven.

My notes from round seven and gulo was target practice for burlanga, but rolando was not really taking advantage of it.

Like blanket was literally just walking forward, he had his hands up.

He was walking forward with his hands up, blocking slim punches taking a few.

You know but slow with his counter punching, so you know he he can really take advantage of it round.

Eight we got here, you can you can you can play that slide one more time if you can um round eight uh um berlanga was winning, but not exactly looking good burlanga was winning, but not exactly looking good versus a 38 year old that i forgot about Again, like i said in real life, 38 years old, not old, but in in in sports and athlete terms, it is giving up that’s why both athletes retire when they’re in in their mid to late 30s um.

It’S unfortunate and glodin gave his big paydays earlier in his career when he was in his prime um again.

His only two losses was to benavidez and to and to ramirez two very good fighters round.

Nine um angulo is not fading at all.

Burlangia is winning, but you know kind of expecting a little bit more again, even though i say expecting more because we see him as as many fights that he has.

I got ta remind myself, and we have to everyone has to remind himself that he doesn’t have that as much professional experience as the number of fights that he has shows.

That makes sense right.

He doesn’t have as much professional experience as the number of fights that he has shows um and then the last round.

I didn’t even marketing those for last round um that was uh.

That was it from there.

So again it was a i gave angulo i mean i gave edgar the chosen one berlany every round it looked kind of shaky at times look kind of shaky um.

If anybody had gave any rounds to to angulo, please let me know, and of course please explain yourself which round it was because i did have a few close rounds.

Uh um.

I had rounds specifically round one round four and round five.

I marked as close rounds.

So you know um if anybody had any of the rounds close like that, let me know, let me know a few uh uh power punch, uh statistics that i looked up or that they showed during the screen during the fight power punches landed through round.

Six was 33, it was even at 33, each each each fighter landed 33 power punches going into round six going into the last round.

Um the percentage for berlanga was 97.

He landed 97 out of 378 power, punches thrown for 26 and gulo landed 72 out of 321 power, punches thrown for 22 percent, um, so again berlinga getting that experience in there.

I know a lot of people.

A lot of people again are going to criticize them for not getting this guy out of there.

But again, you got to remind yourself he’s still he’s still getting up there with his experience, one of the things that he missed out.

Okay, that was that’s it for the fight, keep the slides going, though, as i explained, one of the things that he’s missing that that you can’t uh skip is experience in anything, not just sports, but in life too, but specifically in in boxing like when you, when You start those first round, even though they were great it’s great for him.

You know great first career and financially that he had 16 first-round knockouts because you can mark it.

Of course, you can promote that this guy’s, a knockout artist and people want to see that, but it’s to the detriment of the actual fighter, because he’s this is the reason why that is.

This.

Experience is needed when you have those first couple of fights you berlanga.

Basically, never had time to adapt to different styles that you see like, for example, in your in your earlier in your career.

You’Re gon na face guys, of course, later on when at championship level you’re facing the best in the world, but even when you’re, when you’re starting out you’re gon na face guys, for example, that have a low skill level but are very fast punchers.

Low skill, low skill level, but they they can get off punches very fast.

So you have to adapt to that you’re going to face a guy or a girl that has a low skill level but they’re strong as yeah really strong, right, low skill but low skill level.

But if you get hit with one of them, it’s it’s going to be problems.

A perfect example of this andre ward, one of my favorite boxes of all time, um 2004, gold, medalist uh, 38, and no one, i believe, is a professional boxer – hasn’t lost the fight.

Since he was 12 years old, one of my favorite fighters of all time earlier in his career, when he’s in, i think pretty pretty sure single digits.

He fought a fighter named darnell boom um and that’s a name that most people even that follow boxing wouldn’t even know.

Darnell boom is one of those guys that just fell under the radar.

Definitely not mainstream he’s one of those guys that didn’t really care about boxing.

He just fought because he wanted to wanted to make some money when he fought andre ward, his promoter, he told his brother not to tell him who the guy was.

He didn’t do any research.

He never even knew.

Who unrewarded was my whole point of bringing him up? Is he dropped andre ward earlier in their career? This is a guy that people barely even heard of andre ward, was highly touted again olympic gold medalist.

He was highly touted signed with roy jones jr when he first came in.

He got dropped by this guy darnold boom.

He got up and weathered the storm, but he learned from that experience again.

My whole point is you’re gon na face random guys like that.

That aren’t good, but you know you still have to face adversity and and see if you can get through that um and then you can also face early in your career, a guy that um has high skill level, but no power, sometimes you’ll face like like someone That maybe stayed in the olympia at the amateur level for a long time where you’re used to that.

It’S not really based on power but more speed and and the number of punches that you throw.

If you’ve been in the amateurs for a long time.

And then you turn pro, you might some fighters.

Some bosses aren’t able to it to make that adjustment um.

So you might face that.

So you as a fighter, you have to adjust to that too um and then also you might face some.

You know a fighter that comes falls under the radar.

Someone like terence crawford, who right now is regarded as the one of the number one guys in the whole sport of boxing a lot of people say he’s the number one guy.

In this whole sport pound for pound um, when he was coming out of the amateur level, nobody was talking about him about being one of the best in the sport.

No, like people, a few people knew about him um.

He didn’t make the olympic team he just barely lost in in the finals, but he didn’t make the olympic team.

Nobody was talking about terence crawford being the next the number one pound for guy in the sport.

He just slowly creeped his way through up the screw up the ranks right, so you might face these guys randomly along your way.

So that’s that’s the whole thing and then one of the best examples, uh uh um emmanuel augustus, the drunken the drunken style.

They call them um, google him his highlights when you youtube his highlights, we get a chance, the drunken style and that’s exactly how he fought fought like he was drunk floyd mayweather said that that was one of his hardest fights of his career.

This was earlier in his career too, just some random guy that with a weird style that nobody was used to, because he can’t train for a drunken style, um, anyways yeah.

So really, these are all different types of of styles that you’re gon na face earlier.

In your career, so that when you get to the highest level, you you’ve seen it all orthodox southpaw all of that um, but you know bralanga kind of put himself on that fast track up to up to the top one.

You know up to that top level.

With low experience, so what is next for mr bralanga, i believe if, if i was his team, i would, i would still keep him at these at these b-level fighters to get him that experience i wouldn’t just, even though he has the popularity.

You know that’s the kind of thing that i’m worried about.

You know he already has the popularity he has guys, like you know, fat, joe and and all these big guys, uh walking him to the ring he’s hanging out with all these celebrities.

I i really hope he doesn’t get lost in that in that lifestyle and forget, you know what what helped get him there, which was staying focused on his training.

So at this point i would if i was part of his team.

I would keep him against these b level competition guys to get his experience up there um, you know again he’s still 19-0 right now.

His last three fights have gone the distance.

His last three fights have gone the distance, but this was the first time that i actually i was about to say the first three rounds.

This i was about to say this was the first time i actually seen him look comfortable boxing, but that was only for the first three rounds.

He looked very like those first three rounds of this fight.

He looked very good.

He boxed very well like d-box, very good, but then, after that, he he kind of slowly got away from it even like i said, even in the later rounds, when angula was giving him the opportunity to to to take him out.

You know bralanga wasn’t really facing it, but at the same time you know we’re.

You know, that’s easy sitting on the outside and saying.

Why aren’t you doing more, i already said before angulo has: what is it he with 23 knockouts out of this 27 fights? So obviously, there’s some power in those punches.

So, even though berlanga was blocking a lot of them um, he obviously felt his power and maybe wasn’t trying to take that extra risk um to try to take him out, since he already knew he was winning winning those rounds um.

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