Berlanga meltdown: weight, flu excuses, “big bag” flames exposed cracks on the super middleweight facade

Edgar Berlanga was unable to gain weight today and came in at 169 1/2 pounds on the weigh-in for a 10-round co-specific fight with Jonathan Gonzalez Ortiz this Saturday night of March 15th at the Caribbean Royale in Orlando, Florida.

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Light and heavy?

This is a clear indication that Berlanga needs to rise to the light heavyweight (175) as Berlanga reportedly rehydrated in 193 for his final fight. He needs to fight in a weight class he can make. Naturally, he doesn’t want to move to 175 because he has all the killers. The light heavyweight division is filled with talented fighters who destroy limited men like Berlanga, and his career is almost immediately over.

Even if there were protective promotional companies like Top Rank and Matchroom, if he was competing in the light heavyweight division, he wouldn’t have done much with Edgar. They have too many good fighters to pilot the Berlanga around them.

Berlanga (22-1, 17 Kos) claimed he had the flu and although he could not build weight, he had chosen to stay on the card. However, he has been looking heavy for several months and appears to be celebrating his defeat to super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez last September.

Revealing that he is fighting the flu reveals that if he loses to Gonzalez Ortiz (20-0-1, 16 KOs) or if he struggles to win, it could benefit Berlanga. Still, it’s a bad look for him to miss 1.6 pounds as he’s trying to become a free agent. Saturday will be the super middleweight competitor, Berlanga’s final battle for contracting Eddie Hearn with the matchroom company. “Big bag”. ”

If you are a promoter, look at the enormous size of Berlanga in the 168 pound division, his one-sided loss to Canelo, and his weak resume, you must conclude that he is not someone who will help you fight the top-level opponents in the super middleweight division. That’s if he can just build weight.

He would be suitable for one fight against one of the candidates. Berlanga is the type who needs to match the weak opposition, the top ranked way, and how Haan piloted him.

Are you a warrior or weak?

“People don’t know, but I had the flu. I was struggling with my health and at some point I knew I couldn’t do it,” Edgar Berlanga said. fighthypeexplaining why he missed weight today, he will appear at 1.6 pounds on the 168 pound limit for his main support game against Jonathan Gonzalez Otis this Saturday night in Orlando.

It doesn’t explain why Berlanga looks like a cruiserweight since losing to Canelo last September, despite the flu. He was always big, but it appears he filled out after that defeat.

“Everyone there, they know I take this sport very seriously. There’s nothing to say. We’re still fighting. The other one wants to tell us it’s not. If we wanted to go based on my health situation, we could have gotten out of the fight. I’m a warrior, mate.

“I’m just going to go out there and make the show come true. I’ve got a lot of fans out here, tickets, plane tickets, flights, from Puerto Rico. I’m going to wear it tomorrow. Tune it tomorrow. You’re going to see what happens.

“He has something to prove. Look at what happened to Mungia,” Berlanga said of his little-known 35-year-old enemy, Jonathan Gonzalez Ortiz. “It can’t be us on March 15th,” Berlanga said.