Right now, Edgar Berlanga took to social media to specific curiosity in shifting as much as heavyweight to face Anthony Joshua or IBF champ Daniel Dubois. Berlanga (22-1, 17 KOs) mentioned he would enter the ring at 210 lbs.
Berlanga has one battle left on his Matchroom contract with Eddie Hearn, who promotes Joshua. If Hearn needs to do Berlanga a stable, he’ll grant him his want to battle towards Joshua. It might be an excellent tune-up battle 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 battle Dubois or Joshua, he ought to transfer as much as heavyweight and show that he’s for actual by combating one or two of those fighters:
– Martin Bakole
– Zhilei Zhang
– Joseph Parker
– Filip Hrgovic
One or two of them may be prepared to accommodate Berlanga if His Excellency Turki Alalshikh turns into occupied with financing the sort of battle. It might be circus-level, much like when Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua fought former UFC champion Francis Ngannou, who had no rightful enterprise combating both of them together 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 occupied with a circus battle towards the soundly overwhelmed Berlanga, who seemed oovermatched towards Canelo regardless of his measurement 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, stuffed 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 generate profits in fights, the place he lacks the expertise or expertise.
Berlanga ought to by no means have been given an opportunity to battle Canelo for his three titles as a result of he had by no means overwhelmed anybody with a reputation to earn the battle. His greatest wins had been towards the Britisah fighters Padraig McCrory and Jason Quigley.
I might like to go as much as heavyweight and battle Anthony Joshua simply to check greatness. Nothing dangerous in direction of this. I’ll stroll within the ring 210lbs
— Edgar Berlanga Jr (@EdgarBerlangaJr) September 25, 2024
“Matter of reality, I wish to battle Daniel Dubois…Puerto Rico vs the UK,” added Berlanga.
