Hamzah Sheeraz would be the subsequent man up for Canelo Alvarez.
Making his tremendous middleweight debut on Saturday evening inside Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York, Sheeraz scored a highlight-reel end towards Edgar Berlanga, placing away ‘The Chosen One’ mere seconds into the fifth spherical of their foremost occasion conflict.
The victory made him simply the second fighter to defeat Berlanga, and the primary to knock him out.
Sheeraz rocked Berlanga with a left hook with 45 seconds to go within the fourth spherical. Berlanga managed to remain on his ft till a follow-up mixture knocked him to the mat. As quickly as Berlanga answered the depend, Sheeraz continued the onslaught, touchdown energy photographs and a handful of hooks that despatched Berlanga crashing to the canvas as soon as once more.
Berlanga climbed to his ft and survived the fourth spherical. Nonetheless, issues would come to a crashing halt for the Puerto Rican within the fifth.
Sheeraz got here out and instantly linked with a three-punch mixture that dropped Berlanga. It was then that referee David Fields determined he had seen sufficient, calling off the battle 17 seconds into the stanza.
Official Outcome: Hamzah Sheeraz def. Edgar Berlanga through KO at 0:17 of Spherical 5.
Instantly following the win, Sheeraz addressed the potential for going through Canelo subsequent.
“Canelo’s at all times been a boxing hero of mine, so for mine identify to even be talked about in the identical sentence as his, that’s an amazing achievement,” stated Sheeraz. “But when I do get the chance to battle him, it received’t be a kind of the place I attempt to nick it on factors. I’ll stand in the course of (the ring) and have it out. Whoever lands first, I suppose they get knocked out.”
