Right this moment, Edgar Berlanga took to social media to precise curiosity in shifting as much as heavyweight to face Anthony Joshua or IBF champ Daniel Dubois. Berlanga (22-1, 17 KOs) stated he would enter the ring at 210 lbs.
Berlanga has one combat left on his Matchroom contract with Eddie Hearn, who promotes Joshua. If Hearn desires to do Berlanga a strong, he’ll grant him his want to combat towards Joshua. It could be a very good tune-up combat for AJ to knock Berlanga across the ring in one of many smaller venues.
The 6’1″ Berlanga reportedly rehydrated to 193 lbs for his current one-sided 12-round unanimous choice loss to WBA, WBC, and WBO tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez on September 14th.
If Brooklyn, New York native Berlanga is critical about desirous to combat Dubois or Joshua, he ought to transfer as much as heavyweight and show that he’s for actual by preventing one or two of those fighters:
– Martin Bakole– Zhilei Zhang– Joseph Parker– Filip Hrgovic
One or two of them is likely to be prepared to accommodate Berlanga if His Excellency Turki Alalshikh turns into inquisitive about financing this sort of combat. It could be circus-level, much like when Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua fought former UFC champion Francis Ngannou, who had no rightful enterprise preventing both of them along with his lack of expertise in boxing.
It’s unknown if that was Berlanga’s rehydrated weight, but when so, it wouldn’t be an issue for him to maneuver as much as heavyweight to tackle British fighters Joshua or Dubois.
Neither of these heavyweights can be inquisitive about a circus combat towards the soundly overwhelmed Berlanga, who appeared oovermatched towards Canelo regardless of his dimension benefit towards the 5’8″ fighter.
Berlanga should present that he can beat the highest fighters from his weight class at 168 as a result of he’s 0-1 towards the one high quality man he’s confronted throughout his profession. The 27-year-old Berlanga’s resume is weak, crammed with lesser guys, none of that are wherever close to top-level.
Ideally, Berlanga ought to tackle the likes of Caleb Plant, Jaime Munguia, or Christian Mbilli to point out that he can beat extremely ranked tremendous middleweight contenders. It appears apparent that Berlanga isn’t critical about his skilled profession and is simply trying to earn a living in fights, the place he lacks the expertise or expertise.
Berlanga ought to by no means have been given an opportunity to combat Canelo for his three titles as a result of he had by no means overwhelmed anybody with a reputation to earn the combat. His greatest wins had been towards the Britisah fighters Padraig McCrory and Jason Quigley.
I might like to go as much as heavyweight and combat Anthony Joshua simply to check greatness. Nothing unhealthy in direction of this. I’ll stroll within the ring 210lbs
— Edgar Berlanga Jr (@EdgarBerlangaJr) September 25, 2024
“Matter of reality, I wish to combat Daniel Dubois…Puerto Rico vs the UK,” added Berlanga.
