In this discussion with TMZSports, Edgar Berlanga discusses his huge approaching battle versus Canelo Alvarez, wishing to make a declaration by getting the torch from him, and more. Check out some excerpts of what Berlanga needed to state listed below.

Berlanga on whether Canelo’s boxing experience must provide stop briefly about his possibilities to win

“Nah, I don’t believe so. Remember, you got to comprehend he battled most likely like 30 of his battles in Mexico. Like he battled a great deal of guys in Mexico that resembled offering oranges on the corner and things. He began his profession in Mexico, if I would have begun my profession as an expert at 16, I would’ve been 60-0 myself today, simply ‘cause if you combat in Mexico you can combat weekly if you desire.

“I seem like today, it’s my time. Everything is predestined for me, for this minute, for this chance that I got, the time, whatever is simply — I’m predestined today to make history, September 14 and to end up being a legend that day, and to take control of the sport of boxing and end up being the face.

“I feel like he did what he had to do in the sport of boxing, he a legend, but I think right now it’s my time. I feel like right now is our time to come over and just take over. It needs a new face at 168, you know what I’m saying.”

On if he’s going to attempt to knock Canelo into retirement

“Yeah, I wish to absolutely retire him, for sure. That’s my objective. And I’m not attempting to disrespect him, he a legend, however at the end of the day we got to enter there and we got to combat, we got to tussle, and we got to do what we got to do.

“He’s been saying in his last three, four fights that he’s going to knock somebody out in the seventh round or eighth round and he never did that. I feel right now the sport of boxing needs a new face, they need excitement, they need knockouts, they need somebody that’s going to bring that energy into the sport of boxing…”