Nobody believes Edgar Berlanga anymore after Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez exposed him last September and showed his tendency to open his mouth too much, which also filled his pockets with greenbacks with the best pay of his career, so losing the unbeaten record he had until then should not have hurt him so much.
Berlanga says he will retire
Now, Berlanga is set to step into the ring for the first time since Canelo defeated him in Las Vegas, and he will do so at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida, against unbeaten Puerto Rican Jonathan Gonzalez-Ortiz. True to his custom, he is once again bragging, so much so that this time he threatened to retire from professional boxing if he does not knock out his opponent on March 15.
This is what Berlanga said on his X account: “If I don’t knock him out, I’ll quit boxing and work at Walmart,” and he did so knowing that the narrative changes and generates expectation when the element of a possible retirement comes in, a strategy that has also been used recently by Gervonta Davis and Shakur Stevenson, in what has become a trend in boxing.
Edgar Berlanga does a ‘Canelo’
After having touched the ‘ceiling’ of all boxers today, which is to face the best of his weight, now Berlanga chooses a boxer who is nicknamed ‘Butter‘ who claims to be the best of the ‘Isla del Encanto’ and of whom few had heard, and who with his undefeated record of 21 fights won, at 35 years old is no longer the opponent that everyone would have expected in the path of the ‘Chosen One‘, something similar to what Canelo has been doing and for which he is most criticized.
Either way, with all the money Canelo left Berlanga, many doubt that he will go to ‘work at Walmart’, as he has plenty to fan himself with greenbacks while he waits for a greater challenge than the one he has set for his next fight.
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