Edgar Berlanga is reportedly negotiating with veteran Gabe Rosado to place collectively a battle in February 2025 in Puerto Rico.
Promoter Eddie Hearn reportedly has one battle left along with his contract with Berlanga. He had talked about the opportunity of Berlanga combating in Puerto Rico or New York in opposition to a tune-up-level opponent.
Hearn’s choice to let Berlanga battle Rosado within the last battle of his contract with Matchroom means that he’s curious about re-signing him and needs to spend money on his profession to construct him right into a star. There are totally different ranges of stars in boxing.
There are fighters who’re stars as a result of they beat the most effective and are acknowledged as world champions. Then there are fighters who’re stars primarily based on their recognition, they usually don’t maintain world titles. Berlanga matches that class. He’s an East Coast star.
If Hearn weren’t curious about protecting Berlanga among the many fold at Matchroom, he wouldn’t have allowed him to make use of the ultimate battle of his contract combating Rosado.
The 38-year-old Gabe Rosado would positively match the outline of a tune-up opponent. Rosado has misplaced six out of his final eight fights since 2019. That’s not too good, however this could be good for the Brooklyn, New York native Berlanga. He can’t afford to battle a contender as a result of he’s too invaluable.
Thaboxingvoice reviews that the Berlanga (22-1, 17 KOs) vs. Rosado (26-17-1, 17 KOs) battle is in talks. This would be the 27-year-old Berlanga’s confidence booster to get him again to his successful methods following his lopsided 12-round unanimous choice loss to unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez on September 14th.
Berlanga has been celebrating his loss, reveling going the gap and touchdown some pictures in opposition to the 34-year-old Canel. There’s not a lot to have a good time aside from Berlanga getting a giant payday. The scores have been:
– 117-110
– 118-109
– 118-109
Canelo appeared to toy with Berlanga, outboxing him and never going for the kill to knock him out. Berlanga seemed huge contained in the ring in opposition to Canelo, and he reportedly rehydrated to 193 lbs for the battle.
Gabe Rosado’s final eight fights:
– Bektemir Melikuziev: UD 10 loss
– Ali Akhmedov:UD 10 loss
– Shane Mosley Jr: MD 10 loss
– Jaime Munguia: UD 12 loss
– Bektemir Melikuziev: KO 3 win
– Daniel Jacobs: SD 12 loss
– Humberto Gutierrez Ochoa: UD 10 win
– Maciej Sulęcki: UD 10 loss
