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Edgar “The Chosen One” Berlanga And First Class Boxing!


Via Ken Hisner: WBA, WBO and IBF Ranked 4th, and WBC Ranked 12th Super Middleweight Edgar “The Chosen One” Berlanga and Boxing 1st Bob Arum have parted ways!

After starting to win sixteen consecutive knockdowns, Berlanga won his last four games by decision with a 20-0 record with his current 16 takedowns.

“We have decided to part ways together and we wish him the best of luck in the future,” Top Rank spokesman Evan Corn said.

Berlanga, who held the WBO NABO Super Middleweight belt, which he won, was vacated in October 1921, defeating Argentinian WBA Fedebol champion Marcelo “El Terrible” Caceres, 30-2-1, more than ten rounds at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Berlanga was knocked out in the ninth inning with a score of 96-93 across all scorecards.

In March 2022, Berlanga defended her WBO NABO title defeating Canadian Steve Rolls, 21-1, by decision in ten rounds at Madison Square Garden in New York. Rolls’ only previous loss was against IBF and WBA middleweight champion Gennadiy “GGG” Golovin in stoppage time in 2019. The score was 97-93 twice and 96-94.

In Berlanga’s final game in June 2022, he defeated Roamer Alexis Angulo of Colombia, 27-2, against the Dominican Republic in over ten innings at the Hulu Theatre, Madison Square Garden, New York.

The score is 98-92 and 99-91 twice. He received a six-month suspension and a $10,000 fine from the New York State Commission for attempting to bite Angulo during the game and joked about it during his post-match interview.

Berlanga apologized for the incident and did not attempt to appeal the suspension. It ended on December 11, Top Rank and Connolly could not come to an agreement on the next step to take for Berlanga’s career.

Berlanga’s top rating and manager, Keith Connolly, has been at odds over the direction of his career and the value of his games. Irreconcilable differences lead to separation.

“I am officially a free agent,” Berlanga said. “I want to thank Top Rank, Bob Arum and ESPN over the past few years. I’m excited for the future and will wait for my manager to tell me what the next step is.

“I sold out the theater in Madison Square Garden. I made it my goal to sell out the big room at MSG and throw the biggest party at the Garden that Puerto Rican fans have ever seen. I cannot wait for the future.”

Berlanga, 25, a Puerto Rican from Brooklyn, New York, with sixteen knocks in the first round and is the hottest prospect in boxing. As the KO series continued, he received huge hype from Top Rank and ESPN, its broadcast partner.

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But as Berlanga stepped up his opposition in the past four games, he went eight or ten innings and suffered his first career knockdown in the ninth round against the former world title challenger. Marcelo Coceres on the Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder III card in 2021.

Berlanga won 9-0 when Top Rank signed him in 2019 and put him on the card under Terence “Bud” Crawford-Amir Kahn at Madison Square Garden, and as he went on to score in the knockout in the first round, he began to attract more and more fans to his matches, especially from the Puerto Rican community.

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