Edgar Berlanga seems to have been unveiled today that he is finally a free agent after his four-game contract with the match room ended last Saturday night. He may not be in touch with reality, and thinks that promoters want to sign him based on his 23 wins on tomato can.
Finally free
Former super-middleweight world title-out-of-day Berlanga (23-1, 18 costs) believes that there will be a crazy rush by the promoters and networks, which will lead him to get “that big bag” and make unexplained wealth. He got the Canelo Alvarez fight and made $ 12 million With Matchrome, despite never beating the top-level fighters. Eddie Hearn did a good job for Berlanga, and he didn’t have to beat one quality man to get the money.
He earned his money to be popular in the New York area rather than beating one of the murderers at 168. You can’t call Jonathan Gonzalez Organ, Jason Quigley or Padraig McCrory Killers. Those lesser fighters would not hold a round against the best contenders like Diego Pacheco and Osleys Iglesias at Super Middleweight.
Who pays on?
Promoter Eddie Hearn wants to continue to work with Berlanga and set him with a fight against Caleb plant. However, he might go with them if the new Boxing League of Turki Alalshikh is interested in signing Berlanga. Dana White said the fighters in the new league would lose fights as in the UFC. If Berlanga can even weight at 168 for fighting, he will lose repeatedly if he matches the best fighters in the division.
So, maybe they would be the perfect landing place for Berlanga, who would lose a lot if Dana was going to practice what he preached about ‘The Best Fight The Best’. However, it will amount to money, as Edgar is likely to expect the same kind of dough as he got from his fight with Canelo.
It will have to be a promoter who is willing to lose money on his fights, because if he gets $ 10 million to fight guys like Jermall Charlo, Caleb Plant or Jaime Munguia, the events are likely to bleed money. The guys are not popular enough to bring the PPV purchase against Berlanga, and he doesn’t have enough fans in the New York area to bring in the numbers to make a fight profitable if he gets big money.
“If you want to beat him, you can say he should have come back with something better,” Teddy Atlas says on his YouTube channel that Edgar Berlanga should have fought a better fighter in his comeback battle rather than Jonathan Gonzalez Organ.
“He came back, he got rid of this man, and now he has to fight something better. Either fight someone much better or fight against a big fight. That’s what we want now. You went in with Canelo and showed that you are not so shallow. Now we want a big, big (fighting). What is the big struggle? Plant? One of the guys. “
Damn i really are a free agent 😌😌
– Freshing of the JR (@edgarberlanbayan) 18 March 2025
Last updated on 03/18/2025
