Real Combat Media KO Artist of the Year Has 16 Consecutive First Round Knockouts! Edgar Berlanga Terrorizes The Super Middleweights
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
New York, NY (December 14th, 2020)– Edgar Berlanga, ‘The Chosen One’, is the 2020 Real Combat Media Knockout Artist of the Year, and is following in the footsteps of the late Edwin Valero, Tyrone ‘One Round’ Brunson, and other knockout artists ring past. Berlanga has recorded 16 consecutive first-round knockouts from the start of his career to terrorize the super middleweight division!
Berlanga, 16-0 with 16 knockouts, New York City, New York, has knocked ’em out in Mexico, Florida, Brooklyn and Queens, Philadelphia and Las Vegas. Fighting between 160 and 169 pounds, Berlanga’s last three bouts have been at precisely 169 pounds, including his one destruction of Ulysses Sierra on Saturday night, December 12, 2020, at The Bubble, MGM Grand, Las Vegas. Berlanga had Sierra on the floor, flying across the ring off the ropes and through the ropes, and on the floor again in the span of 160 seconds, late for a fighter whose bouts averaged 94 seconds to that point.
The challenge for Andre Rozier of Havoc Boxing will now be to keep Berlanga at 168 pounds (super middleweight, not lgiht heavyweight) , and put in with a slight step up in opposition. Some possible step up veteran names include the durable trialhorse Derrick Findley, Denis Douglin, Marcus Upshaw, Michael Seals, Vaughn ‘The Animal’ Alexander, Derrick Webster, Fidel Hernandez, Raphael Igbokwe, Gene Pilana, and Gabriel Pham.
Hassam N’Dam N’Jikam, Lionel Thompson, John Ryder and Jose Uzcategu are stronger names. These names are now proposed to Berlanga’s camp. They can pick one or more opponents, and let’s see how Edgar does against some more durable opponents in 2021. Real Combat Media looks forward to hearing more about Edgar Berlanga’s meteoric rise in the 168 pounds division. Bigger names like Gabriel Rosado and Daniel Jacobs could be down the road for Berlanga if his record can reach anywhere between 20-0 and 25-0 at super middleweight. At that point, from Callum Smith to Billy Jo Saunders, from David Benavidez to Caleb Truax to Saul Alvarez, the sky’s the limit. Berlanga is one of boxing’s brightest spots and hopes now for the immediate future. The World Boxing Council World Super Middleweight title is vacant as Benavidez failed to make weight in August 2020 for his title defense, weighing in over 170 pounds for his tenth round stoppage Roamer Alexis Angulo at Mohegan Sun Casino and lost his title at the scales, which could mean an even better opportunity for Berlanga at 168 pounds depending on what the WBC does now.
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