The fight was supposed to launch Berlanga into bigger nights in the super middleweight division. Instead, he hasn’t fought since the loss and has since signed with Zuffa while also promoting a music career on social media.
Sheeraz laughed through the exchange and mocked Berlanga for talking more about music than boxing.
“You want to see something funny? Okay, so he tagged me in a story, and I told him, ‘I beat you out in front of your mother, your father, your girlfriend and your son. All’s fair in love and war. Take the L, chum,'” Hamzah Sheeraz said on Ring Magazine X.
“And he said, ‘Oh, you know we’re going to hold it back. You’re wondering how the hell I’m still shining, and you’re still sucking your thumb, trying to find a fight, blah, blah, blah,'” Sheeraz said of what Berlanga told him.
Sheeraz then turned the altercation into a joke about Berlanga moving towards entertainment after the knockout defeat.
“So, I said, ‘Bro, you’re making music now. I hit you so hard you had a career change.’ I said if you get a million views I’ll walk you out of my next fight.’ And then he just says: ‘I just signed the biggest record deal of my career, blah, blah, blah.’ But anyway, it was all about this song.”
“Listen, if he hits a musical note, he can walk me out,” Sheeraz said.
The comments are yet another reminder of how far Berlanga’s stock has fallen since the Sheeraz debacle. Before the fight, Berlanga pushed for big paydays and talked about fights against Canelo Alvarez and David Benavidez. Since the knockout, his boxing future has become much less clear.
Zuffa’s signing of Berlanga at least gives him another lane to stay relevant, but Sheeraz’s comments suggest he still sees him as a fighter trying to talk his way back into a big fight after being dominated in their first meeting.
🗣️ “I HATED YOU SO HARD, YOU HAD A GODDAMN CAREER CHANGE!”
Hamzah Sheeraz told Edgar Berlanga that if his song ‘Baby Mama’ gets a million hits, he will let him walk out for an upcoming fight 👀
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