Boxing is returning to the masses all the time because of good matchmaking, Edgar Berlanga vs Steven Butler is one of the rare bad bouts.
Edgar Berlanga in recent years of the US has been on a bit of a rebuild mission.
The Puerto Rican-American who fights out of Brookyn, New York was picked apart by Canelo Alvarez of Mexico in 2024.
And also knocked out badly by the UK’s Hamzah Hamzah Sheeraz in 2025.
Two heavy defeats for him at super-middleweight and he has not been the same really.
He takes on Steven Butler next up of Canada but Butler has lost five times.
What’s more they have all been by knockout in his career the five times he has lost.
Edgar Berlanga is a natural puncher so this fight for him is tailor-made and nothing more than cannon fodder.
A confidence builder for Edgar Berlanga.
Nothing more.
A boxer who has showed at the highest level of professional boxing in recent years that he does not cut it at that very highest level.
Fighting Montreal’s Butler on July 26th at Madison Square Garden doesn’t move the needle on that.
Fighting top tier competition does.
Poor boxing matchmaking.
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