{"id":15299,"date":"2025-07-22T11:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15299\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:33:07","slug":"claressa-shields-believes-edgar-berlanga-can-bounce-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15299\/","title":{"rendered":"Claressa Shields Believes Edgar Berlanga Can Bounce Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Claressa Shields<\/a> loves using her words to get under the skin of her opponents. Edgar Berlanga<\/a> seemingly feels the same. The difference, however, is that Shields has no problem backing up every word she utters.
For the better part of two months, Berlanga clowned Hamzah Sheeraz<\/a>. He called the lanky super middleweight contender chinny, a giraffe, and even claimed he was a lower-level fighter who stood no chance against him.<\/p>\n

The trash-talking was good for the cameras but once the bright lights turned on and it was go time, Sheeraz made him eat every single word.<\/p>\n

It was a bad night at the office for Berlanga at the Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York, this past Saturday. After a few successful rounds, Berlanga (23-2, 18 KOs) was clipped in the fourth and finished in the fifth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Considering how he was bulldozed, Berlanga\u2019s critics have come out of the woodwork. Shields though, wants everyone to get off his back.<\/p>\n

\u201cEdgar is a talented fighter,\u201d Shields told The Ring<\/a> recently. \u201cSome may feel otherwise but he\u2019s really talented.\u201d<\/p>\n

Berlanga, 28, will have a few months to plan his next move. The Puerto Rican ticket seller is an unsigned free agent and is coming off a damaging loss. His persona also took a hit.<\/p>\n

By and large, Berlanga\u2019s words and threats provided empty results. Shields, having known Berlanga for years now, wishes he did a little less talking and more action. Still, she knows it\u2019s a part of his DNA. Next time, she hopes her good friend can go out there and take care of business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you talk a certain way, you gotta back it up. He didn\u2019t back it up this time but maybe next time he can do a little less of that and back it up.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claressa Shields loves using her words to get under the skin of her opponents. Edgar Berlanga seemingly feels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,1151,1144,1150,1149,1142,711,1145,1146,1147,1148,1143,49,48,1156,1155,1138,1136,1137,1153,1139,1135,1157,1152,82,1154,1134,1141,1140],"class_list":["post-15299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}