Stevenson-Zepeda, Berlanga-Sheeraz results
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Hamzah Sheeraz dropped Edgar Berlanga twice before finishing the job with a 5th round TKO in the main event of Ring Magazine 3 at Louis Armstrong Stadium on Saturday night.
In the main event of an exciting "Ring III" card, presented by Turki Alalshikh, Sheeraz scored a pair of knockdowns to break open a tense start before brutally finishing Edgar Berlanga (23-2, 18 KOs) in Round 3 inside Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York.
Sheeraz entered the bout under huge pressure after his last fight against Carlos Adames was controversially scored a draw with most thinking Sheeraz was fortunate to claim that decision . Against Berlanga, he remined people of his quality and it now looks like he could have a huge fight against Canelo Alvarez in 2026.
There's a new contender at super-middleweight, and he hails from Berkshire, England. Hamzah Sheeraz makes an emphatic statement, knocking out Edgar Berlanga in
Trinidad stopped 35 of his 42 victims on his way to the International Boxing Hall of Fame and inspired a generation of fighters from his homeland and beyond. One who has gone back and studied the legendary Trinidad is Edgar Berlanga, for whom Trinidad was a staple ingredient of his boxing education over the years.
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Hamzah Sheeraz took a week’s worth of torment from Edgar Berlanga and then flipped it on the hometown fighter with a punctuating statement Saturday