The Herd with Colin Cowherd - THE W.A.D.E. Concept - WEEK IN REVIEW - Wade interviews Edgar Berlanga & Hamzah Sheeraz and BREAKS DOWN there fights...

Episode Date: July 13, 2025

This week on THE W.A.D.E. Concept: WEEK IN REVIEW, Wade interviews both Edgar Berlanga & Shakur Stevenson and breaks down there performances... Timestamps;0:00 EDGAR BERLANGA INTERVIEW 07:43 SHAKUR STEVENSON INTERVIEW 14:34 RING 3 BREAKDOWN 💥Join The WADE Concept Media Team to get access to EXCLUSIVE perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJb9AgsGZvAIGxP6AGUORAw 💥Subscribe to The W.A.D.E. Concept on YouTube!! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJb9AgsGZvAIGxP6AGUORAw 💥Check Out All of My Content in Audio Form On Spotify & Apple Podcasts!! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAOy35GkG9gqmRpQyr6Fr?si=e3ce2c880ba64e3a Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-w-a-d-e-concept-with-wade-plemons/id1807106061 💥 FOLLOW Me on Twitch!! https://www.twitch.tv/wadeplem 💥I Have a PO BOX!! You can send me things here: "The WADE Concept" 27758 Santa Margarita Pkwy Box 581 Mission Viejo, CA 92691 Follow me on Twitter and hit me up with any questions or feedback on the videos:https://x.com/WadePlem  ✅ Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wadeplem ✅ For business inquiries email me here: [e-mail] ✅ #herdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Folks, we are back on the Wade concept presented by the ring. My name's Wade Plymouth today. I'm sitting down with one half of the main event. Once again, Edgar Berlanga. What's up, my man? What's up, man? Main event time in your city. I know it feels good to be home.

Just talk to me about the emotions right now, the feeling Fight Week we're here. I'm excited, you know. I love Fight Week, man, because it's like you get closer to the fight now you know and the training is done you know now it was time to promote the fight talk shit and just you know just make weight you know and then my I'm happy I'm more happy like I'm gonna fuck this dude up but like I'm like so happy because like Friday's like the way in then I can eat you know what I'm saying you look good man you're trimmed up

obviously you know Colorado's doing you well out there everybody's gonna ask about the training but you said you wanted to talk some shit, so let's talk some shit. I don't know if you saw... I look good, though, right? You do look good, man, yeah. Pause. I don't know if you saw that Hamza was walking around

in your city this week, asking people if they knew who you were, and some people did, some people didn't. What do you think about that? Oh, he's a fan, bro. He's a fan. After my fight, I'm having with pom-poms, y'all.

I'm gonna dress him like a fucking cheerleader. He's a fan, bro. Who does shit like that? You know what I'm saying? Do you think if you walked around in London, people would have known? Nah. Who's homestead?

You know, Hums is a chariot? You're gonna fuck out of here, bro. As a fan, you know? And he don't even have the right fit on. He looked like, he looks weird, you know? What was wrong with his fit? He's just look corny. Okay.

The whole shit was, it was cringe. It wasn't like, you know, I was looking at it. I was like, ah, fuck it. Well, last time that you... Thank you... Thank you for promoting my name. Right. Yeah.

Telling the people? Yeah. The last time you guys were set in front of each other, I was there. There was a $100,000 bet on the line. We still hold them to it? Oh, yeah. You better have that shit cash right there. Yeah?

Cash. Cash money. Need that shit in my pocket. When we talked about this fight. I'm going to buy with that shit. I'm going to buy another watch. One of those? You get thrown on my way.

I ain't rocking up today. I didn't want a style on you, you know what I'm saying? Probably get like an AP or something. Okay. You know what I'm a brick, big one. Just. my entire mortgage on your wrist, no big deal. When we were in front of each other the last time,

you talked about how Hamza is the Ring's next big prospect, and you're here to spoil the party. Yeah. Do you still feel that way? What you think? Yeah. I mean, I see it too. Obviously, there's a lot of promotion behind both of you guys,

but Hamza in a position to potentially take the next step, you as well. I do feel like this is your opportunity to silence a lot of people as well based on... Of course. I always got my back against. the world, so I'm not even tripping. You know, I got a lot of haters. And definitely, you know, they got a plan for him, you know. Turkey got a plan for him.

But I'm here to spoil the plan, you know. That's my job to come in and spoil the plan and give glory to God and, you know, talk shit, you know, and be entertaining and performing that ring like a star and, you know, show my white teeth, you know what I'm saying? You know, and just look good, feel good, and fight good. You say they have a plan for him. What's Edgar Rolonga's plan? Everything.

Not just for the fight, but going forward. Obviously, you get this fight done. What's your plan? My plan is after the fight. Just for your career. Obviously, you think you're going to get this win. You know you're going to get this win. What's your plan?

Because they got all his stuff set up. Yeah. What about you? Fuck his plan. Yeah. You know, my plan is, you know, just to take over the 168 division, you know what I'm saying? Eventually, you know, hopefully, you know, after this fight, you know, obviously we focus on Saturday, but, you know, I would love to run it back, you know, with Conello. And if not, I'm looking for, I'm really looking forward to fighting one more time this year.

Okay. You know, November, December, don't matter. I want to finish the year off with a bang. You know, I'm going to dust this dude, sweep him up, you know what I'm saying? Send him back the fucking UK. you know, and then focus on the next one. Let's talk about it. You're going to dust him up.

He's with Andy Lee now. You had some things to say about that partnership the last time around. You know, you can't. When you can't beat him, you join them, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, and I got to, I feel I got a thing with Irish people. You know, I knocked out already like three of them.

Okay. You know, so I think, you know, I know he got a little chip on his shoulder right now, Andy Lee. Fuck Andy Lee, though. What's up with Hamza? Let's talk about Hamza. I was going to say, how do you get this one done, man? You've seen him.

He's a big puncher, you're a big puncher? How does this fight go in your opinion? You know, obviously, we're going in there to hurt, but I'll just tell everybody, just get your popcorn ready. You know what I'm saying? It's going to be an explosive fight. You know, I'm way above his level, man. You know, I've been boxing since I was six years old,

seven years old. I keep saying it, you know what I'm saying? I've been in the ring with the best since the amateur, you know, I'm saying, national tournaments. Went pro, I just fought a legend, you know, last year. So, you know, he don't have nothing for me, bro. There's nothing he's going to do that that I've never seen before, you know what I'm saying? I don't go to fuck about his height, his reach.

He could be 10 feet tall, you know what I'm saying? You know, the bigger they are, the harder they fall, right? So, you know, I just got to go on there, just be eg or belanga, follow, you know, the game plan we have. We've been working on for 10 weeks and execute it. You give me a little tease? Anything that you see? Like, you visualize this fight over and over. I know you have.

How does it go in your opinion? How do you end? It's a fucking, it's a blood massacre. That's all. Okay. You know what I'm saying? It's going to be a bad night for them, for sure. 100%.

You know what I'm saying? We already got the one. It's just going in and now. Just putting that work in. That's it. Shining, bro. Having fun in there. That's literally having fun.

Enjoying my work. Everything I worked hard for for 10 weeks, now it's time to play. I already suffered. I already put myself through fucking, I put myself through that fire. I mean, and, um, And I can't, you know what I'm saying?

I put myself through that fire already. So this is the time now to enjoy my work, you know what I'm saying, enjoy every, all the process I did in camp in Colorado is now. It's time to put in for the 12th. Talk to me about what it means. Obviously, you know, you're fighting here in New York. This is your home. Obviously, a lot of Puerto Rican heritage here as well.

This has got to mean the world to you, being in the main event, in your backyard with all your people there. No, yeah, for sure. You know, coming from New York, you know, being the main event here in the city is amazing, bro. You know, the city's definitely popping out. You know, they love a Belanga fight. They know it's going to be a fight. Everybody knows when I fight. They know I'm going to come to fight. We're not playing around. We're not going to run around the ring, you know, and, you know, you got people out there, they're going to put their best fits on, you know, they're going to look good.

And, you know, it's going to be a star, a stunning performance on Saturday. Give me your final message. Talk to me like I'm Hamza, right? What's your final message to him for what's going to happen on Saturday. I'm fucking him up. I'm fucking you up. You know him? Oh, you're up? I'm fucking you up.

Yes, sir, yes, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, the main event, Edgar Berlanga, you'll catch him on the Zone live this Saturday in the main event. Stay tuned. Folks, welcome back to the way concept presented by the ring.

I am here with the WBC lightweight champion of the world, three division champion, former Olympian, Shakur Stevenson. What's up, my man? How you doing, sir? Doing very well.

Sir, man, I feel so official now. I appreciate it. It's Fight Week, though, man. I know you're excited to be here. You're basically in your backyard. Your people here to watch you in the main event. Talk to me how you're feeling? You're trying to put some pressure on me, man.

I know it's your moment. It's your moment. I'm playing. I mean, I'm ready. I'm ready. We put in a lot of work this training camp, so come fight night. We're coming in there to make sure we come out of victorious

and beat his ass. Yeah. That's been the message. I feel like the entire buildup to this is beat his ass, knockout, belt to ass. What's been the mentality? I don't want to say switch, but what's been the emphasis on that?

I mean, there's a guy who I know going to be very prepared and he's going to come out there and I think he's going to push me to a new level. I think he's going to bring out the best of me and I'm ready for it. I'm ready. He's been,

he sat down with me earlier. He's been saying that he doesn't think you're going to engage in the way you're talking like you're going to. He thinks that you're going to be on the outside, looking maybe to disengage from the fight with him. He's been saying that for a while now. What are your thoughts?

That's a method he wanted to use to try to get me to fight his fight. But I don't fight nobody else fight. I fight my own fight. So if I do go out there and move and whatever, nigger, stop it. Like, stop it. Make sure you come out there and win. And that's what you're supposed to be doing. Right.

Don't complain about what I'm doing. Right. Do what you're supposed to do. Stop me. Stop me from doing what I'm doing. And no one's been able to do that. So that's why they can't beat me. You talked about this being your moment, you're ready.

I got to talk about it. You look jacked, man. You look like you put, I don't know if it's mussy you put on stuff, but man, you are in shape, shape. Has this been just a different lock-in this time around? Honestly, I think y'all just ain't seen you in a tank top.

Maybe that's what it is. I don't know. I'm like, gee. I'm running the tank top today, so I kind of, you know, let it up. It's a hole out here, all right? I got to hit some girls or something. Okay, so like you said, Zepeda's got a great style for you.

How do you see him approaching this fight? Not to focus on him too much because, like you said, you worry about you and what you got to do, but what do you see him doing? The thing is, right, and this is why he's not going to be able to beat me. He got one style that he can do. So I know what he's bringing. I know what he's coming with. He's coming straight in, coming straight ahead at me to throw nonstop punches the entire night.

There's nothing different that he's going to do. I'm levels above whom because I know that I can do whatever I want. So it depends on what I decide to do that night and how I want to go in there and fight. You know, sometimes I fight in the pocket. Sometimes I move a little tiny bit, but it depends on how I want to fight that night. How do you see yourself? Obviously, you have to adjust during the fight, but how do you see yourself fighting him? I see him making me fight.

I see him making me fight. I think... I like the smile, though. I like that. It's like you're welcoming that. Yeah, bring it. I think he don't realize that that's not what he wants. Because it's like you back somebody up against a corner

and it's just going to wake up a monster that he haven't yet to see yet. So tell him bring it. I think you're excited to bring that monster out a little bit. For sure. For sure. Does this fight feel like, let me remind y'all who I am type of fight? Because it feels like people have forgotten that you are three times or three division. You are an Olympian. You are the reigning WBC world champion. Is this one of those fights?

You're like, just in case y'all forgot, I'm one of, if not the best in the world. Yeah, this is one of them kind of fights was like, I remember people watched me with Jamel Heron. And they felt as though I was the best fighter in the world then. So I think that's going to be what comes Saturday night. I think they're going to get that version of me, but 10 times better. I've been seeing all this stuff online, man, and maybe I shouldn't pay any attention to it. You probably don't either, but this Tom and Jerry's stuff.

What is this, man? By the way, I saw your GIF. You quote tweet. That was a nice little quote tweet. Jerry was punching back. Watch out now. I like you having fun with it, though. You know what I mean?

Yeah, you know, I try not to take it so personal. Right. At the end of the day, it just lets me know how great I am. You got somebody who's so big as in Turkey, and you never see him troll any fighters. But for the first time it comes down to me. It's like you want to sit there and kind of troll me over and over and over.

So it just let me know he thinking about me. Of course. Yeah. I think him doing that does for sure point out to say, like, Turkey out of Shake, the man that is behind the ring three, the ring itself, he's focused on you. Maybe he's focused on you so much because he wants to bring whatever he thinks is the best out of you. Yeah, maybe at the end of the day, like I said,

it just let me know how great I am. I got to be great if somebody. of that stature is sitting there trolling me over and over. And it's not just him. The entire world of boxing is looking at you this weekend. Yes, right. This is my weekend. This is my coming out party.

This is where I go out there. And I show and tell. I show and tell. I tell everybody that I'm the best. How does it feel, though, to do this in your backyard? Your people are here. This has got to feel like a pretty cool moment for you. Yeah, it's surreal, but it's going to be more real than when we actually get there on Saturday night

and get to the stadium. Louis Armstrong. That's crazy, right? A tennis stadium? It's going to be a real moment. Definitely is. So let's do this. Let's have a little visualization, right?

No one you have to give out game playing and stuff like that, but you're in the main event. Round one, you're looking across, you see Williams-Zepeda. They ring the bell. What happens? I ain't trying to give out too much, but I see me coming out there, boxing them easy, making sure that I win. some early rounds and I see him just being tough

and he's not going to let up so he's going to kind of force me into a fight and that's when I'm going to start fighting and start whooping his ass put that muscle on him even popping out come on now last message to the fans that are watching and also to William himself

what do you have to say? I'm the best fighter in the world and fans can sit there and go against it but the reason why my fights look the way they look is because they are so easy and come Saturday night it's going to be another night where I dominate and I show the world

how great I am. Can't say it better than that. Bell to ass. Bell to motherfucking ass. There he is. The WBC Lightweight Champion of the World and the main event this Saturday, Ring 3, Shakur Stevenson.

All right, so we are here. Way, concept, presented by the Ring magazine straight away after an incredible night of fights here in New York City. at the Louis Armstrong Stadium, it was Ring 3. And let me just say, for all of the flack that has gone on around the Times Square card and Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney and that whole thing, that whole debacle.

This was a great comeback card for the Ring. Headlined by two main events and two outstanding performances. Really a ton of outstanding performances. We're going to talk about it all. What just happened, Ring 3, standout performances from Shakur Stevenson, a, brutal, devastating demolition job knockout from Hamza Shiraz, the breakdown, let's go. All right, so I was in the building tonight for Ring 3, and this card was stacked with talent from top to bottom.

Let's talk through the whole card. Number one, Rito Susumi, the newest ring ambassador and, you know, Japanese prodigy, has fought on the Times Square card. Funny enough, he fought a guy named Lavelle Whittington on the Times Square card. I called LaVelle Whittington fights Incagwas, Puerto Rico, I called his first fight, not his first fight, but one of his fights there. I knew he was a tough kid, Rito got through it.

This one, he ends it in like, I think the second round, the start of the second round. Hit the guy with the body shots a couple different times, came upstairs and ended it there. Good performance, good second win in his pro career. They keep saying they're going to fast track him. I want to see more before they get to that point, but solid win.

Then we go to David Morel and Imam Kateev, and this was one of the fights that I had probably the fight I had the biggest problem with. And no disrespect to anyone, nothing like that, but just two fighters that are two dogs at 175 pounds, get in there and duke it out. And David Morel had a solid start to the fight, kind of tapered off in the middle, came back strong, but Imam Katayev felt like he just continued to keep the same pace and keep the same damage and just over and over catch David Morel with big time punches, dropped him in the middle of the fight, a huge right hand that dropped Morel. Kind of shocked the whole New York crowd. I want to say that David Merle is

like a minus 850 favorite. And I think that's a lot of people just not knowing who Imam Katayev is, even though he is a, excuse my language, motherfucker in there. And, you know, Chechnyenne, that Eastern European style. And also he's built like a brick shit house. Not only that, but now he's training in Sydney, so he is well-versed. He's had fights all over. And, you know, coming into the fight week, there was a little bit of controversy around the PED positive test. I think that it was explained to me. This is the way it was explained to me that that was 2023 out of the Olympics or something like that, but also he was an Olympic bronze medalist. So this wasn't like a recent test, apparently. But neither here nor there, that was the controversy. The fight itself, though,

the controversy was David Morel, in my opinion, didn't win the fight. And Mom Katayev won the fight, and I thought won it pretty clearly. It looked like it could even be like 7, 3, maybe 6-4, Katteev. But nevertheless, Dave Marel gets a win. And it was a tough fight. It was a close fight. Marell started to come back toward the end of the fight. So it wasn't like some massive blot, even if the rounds are, you know, like I said, 7, 3, 6-4.

It was a close fight, but I thought clearly Katteyev won. Yeah, I just thought it was a wrong call. But we move. I mean, the good thing about it is, right? I'm a big proponent of not really focusing on the O and boxing and it being such a big thing. Wins and losses matter, of course, but these are two tough young fighters. I wouldn't say at the beginning, but in the early stages of their careers that, you know, can afford a loss if it happens. And also both of the guys get better from a fight like that, in my opinion.

So wherever Morel goes next, wherever in Mom Katayev goes next, I think that you're going to see them be better because of the experience they gain tonight. Then we had Alberto Puello and Subriel Matias. This was kind of pinned his fight of the night here in Louis Armstrong Stadium. Everybody looked at this fight. It was going to be the one fight that jumped off the page, that both fighters were going to go in there and dog it out, and eventually whoever won, it was going to be a close one. And honestly, that's exactly what happened.

This was a dog fight. Literally from the beginning, Subriol Matias, I don't think, took one backstep, the entirety of this fight. And Alberto Pueyo boxed very well, in my opinion, on the back foot. And Subriel Matias and new WBC Super Lightweight Champion, I'm going to be honest. Yes, he wins the decision, but I think the judge has got this one wrong. And this one was a little closer. I'm not super upset about it because how close the fight was.

But I thought Alberto Puea won this. I thought that he won more rounds. And here's why. Super Al Matias threw more punches, landed more punches throughout the fight. And landed more power punches throughout the fight. Now, the difference to me wasn't because Alberto Puea outlanded. Subrael Matias. In total, Subriel won rounds with a wider margin.

Alberto Pueo, I thought, won more rounds. That's the difference. To me, I thought he won more rounds. But the rounds that Matias won, he won by a far bigger margin. Again, we'll have to look at the copy box numbers and all that. But it really was, I thought, Matias starting very well. Bertopueo started well as also. There was a maybe 2-2 fight going into the fifth round.

But from that fifth round, Matiis, I thought, racked up maybe 5, 6, potentially seven, but seven being the swing round where I thought Pueo, as they got into that seventh round, maybe eight started to figure out, Matias was just not going to take back steps. So he was going to fall in behind a lot of shots. And Pueo, I thought, started outboxing him on the back foot, really touching him. When he made Matias miss, he would make him pay. We'll get back to that saying in just a second. But yeah, I thought that Alvarto Pueu won the fight.

It was a close one, so I'm not super upset. I'm not going to sit here and call it a robbery, anything like that. And Subriel Matias is looking to. I think they lined him up. I'm not sure who was it. Dalton Smith they lined him up with. I'm not sure. But they definitely want him in Riyadh next.

H.E. got in the ring and was like, you're fighting next. So Matias was like, sure. But I'm not sure what they're going to do with Pueyo next. Regardless, bangor of a fight. Then we moved to the first of two main events in the way this was built. For the WBC lightweight championship, Matias and Puea was a super lightweight. This was Shakor-Stefielsen-Williams-Apeeta.

And I had thought all week that, it was going to be a pretty simple game plan for both guys. Zepeda was going to do what Zepeda does, which is throw a shit ton of punches, a barrage, never take a back step, and look to just pressure Shakur to death until the levy broke, right? Just fill the entire body of water until something breaks, and here comes the flood. While on the other side, Shakur, I thought this would work perfectly for him. I thought this was going to be an opportunity for him to have a showcase, to showcase his skills, to showcase his punching ability off his back foot

and to not have to do much work to get it done, right? It was going to be Zabeda, just walking forward, walking into range. That was going to allow Shakur to do what he does best, which is counterpunch. And I was kind of right, but at the same time, kind of wrong because the whole narrative around this fight, Tom and Jerry, Shakur's going to run, he's a runner, and eventually he's not going to have the gas anymore,

eventually Zabeda's going to catch him. That wasn't what happened. Shakur Stevens had fought this fight like, you know, you might compare it to the, to the Valdez fight, but I don't even think you can really do that. He fought this like no other fight I've really seen from him, and that is a credit to him. I think it's a credit to William Zepeda,

because I think they both needed each other tonight in Louis Armstrong Stadium. What I mean is Zepeda brought the best out of Chakur's offense tonight. I think a lot of the things that were said about Chacore and the runner and all that made him fight in a slightly different way, and Chacore sitting down on his punches brought the best out of Zepeda. Zabeta had to come through some adversity of his own, and ended up making for a pretty darn good fight. But with that being said,

I thought we got one of the best Chacore-Stevenson performances I have ever seen tonight, because he was taking all of the A-game, I would say, of Williams of Peta, which was, again, all the pressure you expected, all the volume of punches you expected. At one point, it was more of a slip, but Chagore did get touched with a punch

that kind of left him off balance. And he got tagged with some punches that Chikor-Stevenson usually doesn't get tagged with, and that's, again, a credit. to Zepeda, but also Chakor decided to fight this a little different. He decided to sit in there with some of the punching and counter off and throw more combinations and not look to use his movement as much. In fact, there are moments, a couple, I would say more than a couple. It was a bunch of times where Chacore was just on the ropes, parallel, back flat against the ropes and looking to shoulder

roll, catch things on the lead shoulder, bump them up, backhand behind it, or catch with the backhand hook, backhand hook. And he was tagging Williams Zepeda tonight. This was not like pillow hand Shakur or like, oh, he's got brittle hand. He was tagging Williams a pay to up. I said it on Twitter. This was just a treat to see Shakur in person. And I'm not trying to glaze or nothing like that. But when you see a guy with that kind of skill in person

and you get to see the sweet science, the actual sweet science, which is make your opponent miss and make them pay. Shakur wasn't just using his feet. Maybe he could have done more with that and would have been a safer fight for him. I think he's even said as much. But when he was there tonight and he was in the pocket and he was making Zepeda miss and then touching him with the jab, then the backhand.

It was a treat to watch tonight. Truly, like, I'd never seen a Shakur fight in person. Very glad that this was the one I got to see because it was probably one of his best performances. And again, you credit that to Shakur, but you also have to credit it to Williams-A-Depeda because Zipata brought that out of Shakur. But as far as Shakor, Stevenson's concerned, listen, one of his best performances, but in the post-fight presser, he calls out Tank Davis.

And, you know, we've all seen the Tank Davis arrest and subsequent release after I mean, it's unfortunate, but we have to tell it like it is, at least from what we know right now, another domestic abuse allegation and arrest for Tang Davis. It's a terrible thing. But, yeah, I mean, this should be the fight. It could be one of the biggest fights you can make right now in American boxing is Shakur-Stevenson and Giovante Tang Davis. I don't know if they'll do it. I don't even know if Tank is going to fight on August 16th, let alone anything after that.

It seems like he has been on a train wreck of a trajectory. It's the Frank Martin fight, honestly. Right after the Frank Martin fight, great performance, that everything else has been so wishy-washy, does he want to box, does he want to retire, out-of-the-ring stuff that's been going on for a very long time with Tank. The Roach rematch, what happens there, potentially Jake Paul, and now this. So we'll see, but, I mean, I'd be lying to you if I didn't,

if I didn't say I wanted that fight. Of course I want that fight. Everybody that's even somewhat of a boxing fan in America would want that fight. So I hope that happens next for Shakur. If not, I mean, I guess he can move up to 40, but I think 35 is probably where he needs to be. So who knows? We'll just have to see kind of what shakes out at 35.

So then we get to the main event, or the second main event, right? Hamza Shiraz and Edgar Berlanga. And this one was interesting because you had two guys that were going through a lot of change. No Justin Bieber voice. They were going through some changes. On Edgar Berlanga side, he, I just pronounced Berlanga and Berlanga differently in the same sentence. That's crazy. He obviously had lost that.

the Canelo fight and then come back with a win versus a guy that looked like he was melting in real time. But, you know, Edgar is known as a big power puncher, a very prideful New Yorker, 16 knockouts in his first 16 fights. But not a guy you ever looked at is the super skillful highest level boxer at 168 and, you know, had a lot to prove, especially after that performance versus Canello, which was pretty much non-existent when talking about his actual offensive prowess that we've seen before that. And then on the other side, Hamza Shiraz, who had looked like an absolute phenom at 160 pounds, had 15 straight knockouts going into the Carlos Adomas fight.

And listen, the Adomas fight was called a tie, but in my opinion, I love Hamza, but he lost to me. Regardless, it was definitely something that showed him he needed to make changes. He stops training where he's training, goes to train with Andy Lee from L.A. to Ireland or back from the UK to Ireland, wherever he was. And then he makes to move to 168 because, good Lord, he is sick. My height fighting at 160. Just for reference, I walk around at 210.

I know he's not far off from me. Used to fight at 154 before that. I don't know how he ever made either of those weights. Even now at 68, he looks massive. So it looked like a more replenished Hamza Shiraz. He had to answer a lot of questions, though. And tonight was the night to do it because, damn, did he absolutely destroy Edgar Berlanga.

I mean, obliterate him. Make him look like an. amateur, done and dusted in, what was it, five rounds? And it wasn't a particularly hard five rounds. It wasn't like there was a back and forth. Hamza got maybe hit with one solid punch from Edgar Berlanga. But the fight started, and the first thing I thought to myself was, I think the game plan for Hamza should be to stay long behind his jab,

have that longer guard, be able to catch things with the rear hand, and then poke with the jab, and then turn that jab into the hook, and then bang the right hand behind it. And for Edgar, I was like, all right, well, you're at a lot. have reached disadvantage. You're not as skilled as Hamza is. You're going to have to find your way to phone booth range, inside range, throws those nasty hooks, maybe head movement off center, catch Hamza with a long jabby overthrows, bang the right hand, the left hook. Something like that. And yeah, we'd seen that Edgar is, uh, you know, vulnerable to the left hook as well. It kind of

throws the arms out at a jab faint and then the hook behind it can catch him. So I thought maybe there were some opportunities at range again for Hamza, but this fight turned out to be almost completely different. I did not understand how good Hamza Shiraz was on the inside. For a guy that's my height, 6-3, he works like a technician on the inside. He was outworking Berlanga and outlanding Berlanga on the inside, damaging him with big-time punches, touched him on the chin in the first round with a hook from inside. The jabs were going back and forth. Berlanga had some great success with his jab to the kind of start of the fight, but then it was Hamza just building and building, getting closer and closer again on the inside with combination

and punching and you were starting to think, okay, it's just a matter of when, not if now for Hamza Shiraz, if he's going to touch Edgar on the chin, how is Berlanger going to take it? That's a different thing. But then we got to the, I think it was the fourth round where, again, things were starting to heat up. They were ramping up. And Hamza got to the inside. It was almost, you know, pushing to get to the inside and pushing to get inside close range. And I saw one combination that went, oh, oh, Hamza really wants to be inside. He threw a lead hand uppercut, bang the hook around the side, Hurt Edgar with that, and you can see Edgar's face kind of change a little bit, you see him wince a little bit, and then you saw Edgar do what I thought maybe only he could do, which was get desperate,

and start lunging a little more, start getting a little more reckless, which I thought if Hamza kept things long, and at range, Edgar would do sooner or later, but this was more Edgar feeling the power of Hamza Shiraz, banging the lead uppercup, banging the hook around the outside of the body, and then when the hands fell and there was a little bit of time to trade Hamza dug in big left hook right hand left hook hurts Eger Belonga sends him to the canvas and ladies and gentlemen this kid has some punching power it was devastating the way he was landing Belonga yes got dropped against Canelo kind of popped back to his feet

I thought that was a mistake here he pops up a little quick you know hits the gloves together referee says all right go again and Shiraz dropped him again with another big right hand and uh berlanga got up again fair play he did show hard but then got saved by the bell because 10 more seconds and berlanga would have been would have been eaten canvas and honestly before long he would anyway because the fifth round comes and just as the the round starts homza just cracks him again with another combination and that's it and that's all and the entire crowd was in a freaking frenzy because hamza shiraz put on a nasty nasty performance it was insane how good he was at close range, how powerful his shots were.

Could you attribute the Carlos Saddamas fight to the hurt hand as what was said around that time? Maybe the weight cut, I don't know, but this looked like a completely different guy. And yes, Eger Berlanga clearly now is no Carlos Adamas. But still, what I'm about to say, in no way, shape, or form actually matters because fights are judged as individuals and you can't really do boxing or MMA math because it just doesn't work, right? this guy beat this guy so this guy will have to beat that dude right it doesn't work but we did see egger berlanga take a bit of a bump in popularity and in people's minds as a boxer based on the fact that

he went 12 rounds with canello yes canello dusted him yes it was it was fairly easy yes canello dropped him but canello didn't do that to egger berlanga and sure you can say you know what canello hit him so many times that egger just wasn't the same after that fight or you can say it doesn't really matter wade what happened in the canella fight because this is completely different And I'll agree with both of those things, potentially. But then you also have to understand what I'm saying is Hamza-Shiraz, his first fight at 168 pounds, did what no one else could do to Edgar Belonga.

And that is absolutely obliterate him inside five rounds. That's at least worth acknowledge. And he's young, he's with a great trainer and Andy Lee, he's got a great frame for 168. Good Lord, he's his tall. Again, I keep saying it, but his reach, his height. So let's see. Let's see before we just immediately dismiss this,

says, oh, it's Berlanga. And okay, Berlanga's not as good as we thought. Maybe. But that performance for Hamza-Saraz at least acknowledges that he's a real threat at 160A. I don't know, again, if we're talking Canelo level. I don't know. But he is a damn good fighter, and he showed that tonight.

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