Comments Thread For: Eddie Hearn Says Edgar Berlanga Must 'Prove His Value' To Get Shot At Canelo

[Jab jab boom]

Rocky Fielding actually became a world champion. John Ryder beat a ex world champion and elite middleweight in Daniel Jacobs…something Berlanga has never done. Stop being ignorant

Nice try but a trash opponent is a trash opponent. Fielding was never a real world champion and Ryder got a gift over a washed up Jacobs. Want proof Jacobs was washed up? Watch him get a gift sd vs Gabe Rosado in just his previous fight before Ryder.

[willieb24]

Eddie Hearn: aka " You have to prove yourself against my matchroom euro bums"

[Griever0730]

He looks, walks and talks like pretty much every PR I've ever seen (except Cotto maybe).

Dude was only born over there and raised over here. You actually been to PR and met people out there and not just basing off of the extremely few PR boxers you know of? Even with that, ain't no PR boxer you can name that had the arrogance and blantant lack of humbleness that Nuyoricans like this guy and that Vargas kid that got humbled multiple times recently have. Camacho, another Nuyorican who, as great as he turned out to be, wasn't truly beloved by the island bc he carried himself just like these dudes. Nuyoricans and Puerto Ricans from the island are raised different. Very few from the island are anything like these guys.

[sicko]

he needs a big win or 2 but it is hypocritical to say "Oh Benavidez haven't fought anybody" but then turn around and try to sell the fans Canelo vs Berlanga

[PETUFF]

Put him against Mungia plain and simple !

[BrilliantAJ]

McCrory? No thank you

That’s a better fight than we’ll get. Guarantee you haven’t seen him

[Verus]

Rocky Fielding actually became a world champion. John Ryder beat a ex world champion and elite middleweight in Daniel Jacobs…something Berlanga has never done. Stop being ignorant

Telling the ignorant to stop being ignorant is like telling a barking dog to stop barking. Having said that, you might be on to something. This guy might not be ****** or ignorant, at all he might just be a hater who loves being ignorant on purpose.

[TheOneAboveAll]

Dude was only born over there and raised over here. You actually been to PR and met people out there and not just basing off of the extremely few PR boxers you know of? Even with that, ain't no PR boxer you can name that had the arrogance and blantant lack of humbleness that Nuyoricans like this guy and that Vargas kid that got humbled multiple times recently have. Camacho, another Nuyorican who, as great as he turned out to be, wasn't truly beloved by the island bc he carried himself just like these dudes. Nuyoricans and Puerto Ricans from the island are raised different. Very few from the island are anything like these guys.

IDK, I can somewhat see your point, but I think pretty much all PRs tend to fit the mold of flashy, loud, metro and arrogant, whether they are from Brooklyn or Bayamón. It's that pervasive reggaeton/hip hop culture, I suppose. The island culture might be a bit different from the big city culture of New York, but ask any outsider if your average PR is low key, stoic and humble. Nobody would mistake Edgar Berlanga for anything but a PR (well maybe a Cuban or DR perhaps).

[Griever0730]

IDK, I can somewhat see your point, but I think pretty much all PRs tend to fit the mold of flashy, loud, metro and arrogant, whether they are from Brooklyn or Bayamón. It's that pervasive reggaeton/hip hop culture, I suppose. The island culture might be a bit different from the big city culture of New York, but ask any outsider if your average PR is low key, stoic and humble. Nobody would mistake Edgar Berlanga for anything but a PR (well maybe a Cuban or DR perhaps).

No disrespect with anything I'mma say but the problem with your statement here is you're basing it from an outsider's POV when your average outsider probably has never even been to PR or any of those countries unless it's on some tourist stuff and base it on the Hispanic-American descendants of those countries they see that were born or raised in the US like you are doing here. You just happened to name all 3 ethnic backgrounds I am most associated with. As a PR-DR descendant born in the US, raised closer to my PR family, living in a Hispanic(primarily Cuban) area in South Florida and been to PR multiple times, not everybody from all those countries is about that reggaeton culture. That stereotype you put on PR natives is exactly the stereotype they don't like about Nuyoricans bc then people that know little to nothing about Hispanic culture lump them all into one box thinking they're the same and they aren't. Plus not every Hispanic country has the same notable characteristics bc they all have their own cultural differences also from word meaning, accents, etc. They are not all the same.

[Jab jab boom]

IDK, I can somewhat see your point, but I think pretty much all PRs tend to fit the mold of flashy, loud, metro and arrogant, whether they are from Brooklyn or Bayamón. It's that pervasive reggaeton/hip hop culture, I suppose. The island culture might be a bit different from the big city culture of New York, but ask any outsider if your average PR is low key, stoic and humble. Nobody would mistake Edgar Berlanga for anything but a PR (well maybe a Cuban or DR perhaps).

Instead of limiting the lack of humility and not being low key to those 3 groups , might be more rational to say the arrogant traits tend to apply to boxers as a whole. It may have to do with what it takes to be a boxer but it doesn’t matter if you’re talking about the Uk from Hamed to Aj. Mexico from Chavez to Canelo, Americans from Ali to Roy and Floyd, mayorga from Nicaragua or Duran from Panama, humility isn’t a common trait.