The Lure Of Canelo: Edgar Berlanga Says Hamzah Sheeraz Had “No Choice” But To Accept Their Clash

Edgar Berlanga says that Hamzah Sheeraz only fights against him on July 12 because he was told that this was the only way to fight Canelo Alvarez next year. He had no choice. It was either this or not a canelo. Berlanga (23-1, 18 Kos) seemed to be intimidated today during her attack at the kickoff press conference in the Palladium in New York Sheeraz (21-0-1, 17 Kos). The fans could see that Sheeraz looked frightened.

Berlanga-Sheraz is on July 12th in the Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York, in a super middle weight collision. The winner of the fight will come closer to the undisputed 168 pound champion Canelo. You will probably need a fight before you get the fight against Canelo because he already has a complete schedule.

Sheeraz ‘forced fight?

“They feed him to the lion. He only does this because they said to him: ‘When you hit him [Berlanga]We will give you Canelo. ‘So he had no other choice, ”said Edgar Berlanga Ring magazine About Hamzah Sheeraz only takes the fight against him because his management told him that if he wins, he will get the Canelo Alvarez fight.

Berlanga is probably right. Sheeraz had no choice but to run the fight against him if he wanted to get the chance to fight Canelo and get a huge payday like the one he received last September. The temptation of a potential gold mine in the amount of 10 million US dollars is reason enough for Hamzah to fight against Berlanga to earn the Canelo -Clash. On July 12th he will probably receive a career high number day against Edgar.

“I just told him. I said:” You had no choice but to take this fight, brother. “He says:” Oh, I come to your hometown. I said, “Brother, you had to do this to try to get the Canelo fight because they promised you this fight.” But otherwise I go in there and want to hurt him, ”said Berlanga about Sheeraz.

This is the way for Sheeraz to get the Canelo match. Combating Caleb Plant or Jaime Munguia would not work either because these two do not have the same popularity. Sheeraz would probably have remained at 160 if not the chance of entering the Canelo competition. On February 22, he will be fighting the WBC CHAMPION Carlos Adames on this fight against the WBC medium weight. So it’s like he had failed in his way. Sheeraz has known from this encounter that it only gets worse for him at 168, but he takes a game of chance to try to get the Canelo fight.

Berlanga’s coming out party

“I am ten times larger, 20 times larger than in 2023 when I fought against Jason Quigley,” said Berlanga when I was asked how much more he has been with Canelo last September. “This is my coming out party with certainty. It’s like:” Okay, Berlanga is back. “I’m back with everything.

Berlanga is now better known after the fight against Canelo, but not necessarily more popular. Today’s press conference helped Berlanga much more than his defeat against Alvarez because many boxing fans saw him in a cheap light. He was theatrical today and dominated the press conference with his stage presence and his charisma.

“I have had a lot of experience with this canelo fight. [Jaime] Munguia, and then we could probably get this Canelo fight next year, ”said Berlanga.

It is due to Turki Alalshikh, which Berlanga will fight next. It is difficult to imagine that he chose Munguia because he has lost two of his last four fights. Turki may want to give Edgar a hard road by having it done by the Caleb plant. That would be a more difficult option than Munguia, which looks mentally weak in the fight against good opposition.

Sheeraz: C-Level fighter

“If it were easy, everyone in the first round would turn off people,” said Berlanga about his 16 Knockouts in the first round to start their career. “We grabbed legitive fighters to get rounds. Hey, I wanted to switch them off. Yes, maybe, who knows, I don’t think. I think he’s a fighter at C level,” said Berlanga when Hamzah Sheeraz is the second best fighter behind Canelo.

Sheeraz is a fighter B-Level, but he can beat. When he is hit, it looks vulnerable and does not react well to pressure. Adames led him down all night, nailed him with shots and took the whole fight out of him. We had already seen Sheeraz in his fight against Austin ‘Munmo’ Williams. He might have lost this fight if ammunition had continued to aggressively stimulated him after he had injured him early.