We’ve seen it so usually on this nice sport of ours: a fighter, often the large betting favorite, coming into the ring with an opponent he’s totally anticipated to beat however with him making the error of waiting for a much bigger combat after which dropping in an upset.
Hamzah Sheeraz may not be the betting favorite going into Saturday’s DAZN PPV combat with Edgar Berlanga, however the British star who can be boxing each his US and his 168 pound debut, says he himself made the error of waiting for a giant combat when he challenged Carlos Adames for a portion of the middleweight title final outing.

Why Sheeraz Received’t Make the Similar Mistake Once more
Sheeraz admits all of the speak of a giant combat between himself and Chris Eubank Jr acquired to him, and that he wasn’t totally centered on Adames, with the 2 boxing to a draw. Sheeraz, 21-0-1(17) says he is not going to make the identical mistake within the Berlanga combat, though there’s speak that, ought to he win, Sheeraz might land a large combat with Canelo Alvarez subsequent 12 months.
Might Berlanga Be Trying Forward to Canelo?
“It’s solely as a result of I realized from my final combat,” Sheeraz stated to The Ring. “Earlier than my final combat, everybody was speaking about it. Eubank Jr this, Eubank Jr that, and you find yourself finally believing it. You find yourself finally feeling prefer it’s going to occur regardless. So yeah, I’ve positively realized from my earlier expertise and now I perceive that the buck really does cease with Berlanga for now.”
Sheeraz must be totally centered on Berlanga, a person who has really fought Canelo and is arguably extra accustomed to the big-fight stage than Sheeraz is, particularly so far as fights in America in fact. However might Berlanga be responsible of wanting previous Sheeraz right here, this as “The Chosen One” eyes a rematch with Canelo?
Berlanga-Sheeraz might show to be the combat of the evening on Saturday, this when Shakur Stevenson and William Zepeda will collide that very same evening on the identical card. Each super-middleweights are predicting a KO win.


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