Berlanga Vs. Rosa Clash Possible For Puerto Rico

Gabe Rosado is excited about the prospect of fighting former world super middleweight title challenger Edgar Berlanga next year in Puerto Rico.

New Yorker Berlanga (22-1, 17 KOs) and Rosado are both of Puerto Rican origin, but were born in the United States. They are expected to fight on the island in what would be a card promoted by Matchroom Boxing on DAZN.

19-year-old pro Rosado (26-17-1, 15 KOs) has not won a fight in four years since his third-round knockout victory over Bektemir Melikuziev on June 19, 2021.

Berlanga suffered his first professional loss, losing to 168-pound unified champion Canelo Alvarez on September 14 in Las Vegas. It was pretty one-sided for the most part, but the 27-year-old Berlanga made it competitive with his sheer size. He was reported to have rehydrated 193 pounds after weighing 167 3/4 lbs.

That’s a weight gain of 25.25 pounds after rehydrating. Canelo dropped Berlanga in the third round, but then seemed to take his foot off the gas instead of going for the knockout. There are those who believe that Canelo brought Berlanga.

They felt that Alvarez didn’t want to be criticized for knocking out the Brooklyn, New York native because he had already been ridiculed for picking him over more proven fighters like David Benavidez and David Morrell.

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Fans would prefer Berlanga to fight an actual opponent instead of the 38-year-old official Rosado for his next fight, but it would be too risky to put him with a guy in the top 15. Berlanga is already talking about getting a quick win and then fight Jaime Munguia to get a rematch with Canelo.

It may take more than beating Rosado and Munguia for Berlanga to get a second fight against Alvarez, but you can’t blame him for wanting to at least try. Berlanga’s purse for this fight was $3 million, and he probably made extra money from the PPV. It generated a total of 650,000 purchases. These are excellent figures.

“It’s a fight for me that’s a dream fight just because I’ve never fought in Puerto Rico,” Gabe Rosado told MillCity Boxing about him potentially fighting New York’s Edgar Berlanga in 2025 in Puerto Rico. “I live in Puerto Rico for half a year. I have a house out there. So I’m always there.

“I’m telling you, this is going to put a different battery on my back. You have legends like Cotto, Tito (Trinidad and Amanda Serrano). It’s very good for the sport. Puerto Rican boxing is back on the map, because now you are very talented

“You’ve got Berlanga, and you’ve got the vet, Gabe Rosado. To put us in PR, the island is going to love it. You’ve got two Boricuas from the United States coming back to Puerto Rico,” Rosado said of him and Berlanga. “It would be history, it would be a dope event. There’s no real difference between being in Puerto Rico and being in Philly.”

Fans outside the East Coast would prefer to see Berlanga fight someone a little younger than the 38-year-old Rosado. Rosado’s 17 losses make it difficult to take him and this fight seriously. This reinforces the argument that the former Top Rank-promoted Berlanga is just a hype job created to sell tickets in the New York area.

It would be more interesting for fans outside of the New York area if Berlanga fought one of these contenders below:

– Osleys Iglesias
– Plant Caleb
– Christian Mbilli
– Diego Pacheco
– Erik Bazinyan
– Bruno Surace