2020 Olympic Cuban gold medalist Andy Cruz (5-0, 2 KOS) will fight Hironori Mishiro (17-1-1, 6 KOS) at the IBF Lightweight Title eliminator eliminator on the Richardson Hitchins vs. George Cambosos Jr. at the theater at the theater in Madison Square Garden in Novel York. The event will be shown live in Dazn.

The winner of the Cruz-Mishiro fight can end the challenge of Raymond Muratalla if he is raised to the full master if the current IBF Vasily Lomachenko champion decides to retire and not return. Given that Cruz is talented and is not one of the Top Rank fighters, Muratalla will probably wait a year or longer before he defends him.

The highest rank promotes Muratalla and will not want IBF to lose Cruz in a low paid fight. They will expand it as long as possible, and try to configure more lucrative matches from Gervont Davis, Keyshawn Davis or Abdullah Mason.

Shakur protection against Cruz

Interestingly, the promoter Eddie Hearn positions Andy Cruz towards the IBF title, not the WBC belt kept by Matchroom Fighter Shakur Stevenson. Cruz takes #1 WBC and #3 ibf. The idea is to protect Shakur long enough to fight great money with the champion of WBA Gervont Davis.

If Hearn fought Shakur with Cruz, Newark, a compatriot from Novel Jersey, he would probably lose. This would constantly destroy his chances of fighting tank. He is sharp, but still looks bad that Stevenson is protected against beating by a more talented Cruz. It’s business.

Cruz calls Keyshawn Davis constantly since he changed the professional in 2023, but without happiness. Now, when Keyshawn captured the title of WBO from the highest ranking fighter, Denys Berinchyk, on his part there is even less interest to face Cruz.

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Hamzah Sheeraz says that Edgar Berlang’s performance against Canelo Alvarez showed that he is Not a warriorAnd they call this “empty can” in terms of courage. Sheeraz (21-0-1, 17 KO) states that when Canelo dropped Berlanga (23-1, 18 KO) in the third round, he got up and decided to “box” the Mexican star.

Sheeraz sees the submission of Berlanga

Hamzah sees it as a sign that Edgar There is a lack of “substance”. If he believed in himself, he would get up and go to the war with Alvarez and were ready to go out on his shield. Berlanga did the opposite. He believes that he comes from Brooklyn in Recent York as a “delusion” about how he paints his heroic image of himself while discussing his performances in the media. It makes him sound like a war hero, not a warrior who surrendered in a cowardly way.

Sheeraz will face Berlang in the 12-round main event on the Turki Alalshikha card on July 12 at the Louis Armstrong stadium in Queens, Recent York. The fight is seen as 50-50 in the eyes of fans.

“He too much respected caneloAnd this is true. He used the arm [injury] as an excuse, ‘said Hamzah Sheeraz Ring magazineWhen discussing why Edgar Berlanga lost to Canelo Alvarez in September last year. “When he was dropped [by Canelo]He felt power. He is an empty canBecause if there was any substance in it, he got up and had it with Canelo. He wouldn’t try to box and just did it. “

In retrospect, he could win this fight if he poured it along the way in the 12th round. However, there was no confidence. Hamzah saw the same. Berlanga showed too much respect for Canelo and simply gave up after knocking down in the third round.

Berlanga fought bravely in the 12th round, but he looked as if he were in survival mode from rounds from 1 to 11. He looked as if he did not want to be knocked out, and did not believe in his chin to replace Canelo’s bombs.

Without war, only an illusion

“When you fight someone like Canelo, even if you go out on the shield, you gave your best,” sheeraz continued. “He [Berlanga] He thinks he was standing there and had a war with him, but there is evidence. There was no war there. He grabbed Canelo with a few good shots. As for him and Canelo, he is definitely illustrating. “

Despite the greatness, youth and the advantage of power, Berlanga did not decide to fight aggressively. It could have been a different story if he struggled with Canelo.

“He throws Edgar Berlang,” said Hamzah, asked how he could take the opportunity to be the occasion of July 12.

Floyd Schofield vs. Tevin Farmer is possible for Undercard Jake Paul vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. June 28. The undefeated Schofield (18-0, 12 KO) talked about the fight against Lucas Bahdim, but the negotiations came.

@Danrafael1 reports that his sources say that there is a good chance that the Schofield-Farmer fight will be created on the card on June 28. It would be a risky struggle for an unverified 22-year-old Schofield at this early stage of his five-year professional career. He did not look good during his last fight, leaving in the 11th round by Rene Tellez Giron in November last year.

Schofield received a lot of criticism from fans for withdrawing from the fight with the title in February last year against Master WBC Lightweight Shakur Stevenson. In this fight Floyd would have a nice payment day. Some boxing fans believe that at the last minute he lost his icy feet, lost his nerves and pulled out the excuse for being infirmed.

Sink or swimming?

The Golden Boy’s decision to permit Schofield on the former IBF Super Feather Wweight (33-8-1, 8 KO) farmer is a sink. In other words, if Schofield loses, it is possible that Golden Boy can reject him, seeing him as a lost case and it is not worth spending more time on its construction.

The farmer was close to beating William Zepeda In the last two fights in exhausting competitions. Tevin took and threw out many penalties. Earlier, the farmer lost a challenging 10-round unanimous decision against Raymond Muratalla In July last year. Although he lost the fight with Muratall, he made him look bad, landing many shots and making him miss the right arrows.

Schofield’s fight with Giron should have enough for Golden Boy to give up because he looked so average. But the strange withdrawal from his fight with Shakur must raise doubts in the minds of the best Golden Boy brass about whether Schofield has hardness to keep it on board. When the warrior is tender, promoters must throw them overboard to focus on fighters with the required spark to succeed.