Coach Stephen Edwards believes it will be difficult for Edgar Berlanga to come back from his knockout loss to Hamzah Sheeraz in a 168-pound WBC title eliminator. He notes that Berlanga (23-2, 18 COs) suffered a bad knockout and took many hard shots from Sheeraz before he was stopped in fifth place.
Berlanga’s tough road back
Edwards says he thinks Berlanga will have to sit and restore the effects of the knockout for a year before he is ready to return to the ring safely. Fortunately for Berlanga, he made millions of the Sheeraz and Canelo Alvarez fights. He can afford to sit inactive while recovering.
Can Berlanga recover?
“The man was too difficult for him,” coach Stephen Edwards said Millcity Boxing About Edgar Berlanga’s loss of Hamzah Sheeraz. “It will be difficult to get back from here. It was a bad knockout. He probably won’t fight again this year. Just think about how he fell and how his body reacted and how his head had back. ‘
Berlanga’s manager, Keith Connolly, will find easy options for him to come back slowly from this defeat. It is predictable that it is fighters similar to Berlanga’s opponent earlier this year, Jonathan Gonzalez Organ. What will be difficult for Edgar to adjust is the decline in the payment.
He received a million plus pay days in his last three battles, and it probably won’t happen if one of the most important promoters doesn’t sign him. They will have to be willing to gamble on him and invest money in the hope of a return later.
“The last right hand the referee stops. You can’t get harder than that. He’s going to be out of the ring for a while, ‘said Edwards about the right hand with which Hamzah Berlanga completed in the fifth round.
Edgar’s damaged future
It was a big shot against which Berlanga had no ability to defend against. He was so hurt, and he did a bad job to block Sheeraz’s bumps from the fourth because of his hand speed. He doesn’t seem to realize how fast he was until it was too late. Afterwards, Berlanga had to box, move around and not let Sheeraz come close. However, this is not his style. He was too heavy and fleshy for his thin body to move the ring to preserve himself.
“I don’t know how we talk about him and Sheeraz. I think it’s a service from Crawford, to talk about a battle with Sheeraz and Canelo if I think Crawford is going to beat Canelo,” Edwards says.
It is premature that Turki Alalshikh talks about Hamzah Sheeraz battle against Canelo in February 2026, because there is still much doubt about the outcome of his struggle with Crawford. It’s not the same victory as in Alvarez’s last fight when he fought against William Scull in May last year.
Sheeraz is not the best option for Canelo. Fans would be more interested in a battle between Canelo and David Banavidez or a re -broadcast with Dmitri Biscvol as a collision against the still unproven sheeraz.
While more fans in the US now know who sheeraz is after his victory over Berlanga, it is the only notable victory on his resume. Berlanga is considered a manufactured hype -workThe handiwork of the top rank and match with their soft soft match.
It is pathetic that they created Berlanga to make him look better than he actually is by feeding him less opposition. It is enlightening about the levels of what promoters are ahead of them to create a falsehood.
Last updated on 07/17/2025
