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Golden Boy\/Cris Esqueda<\/p>\n
Edgar Berlanga has some strong praise for Dana White.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Berlanga left Matchroom Boxing and signed under White\u2019s Zuffa Boxing banner.<\/p>\n
Ahead of his July 26th fight against Steven Butler at Madison Square Garden, we spoke to Berlanga about why he decided to sign with Zuffa Boxing.<\/p>\n
According to Berlanga, he saw what White was doing for UFC fighters and believed he could do the same for boxers as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cDana White is an excellent promoter. I feel like what he\u2019s done in the UFC, he could do that in boxing too, and that\u2019s just with the branding and just putting fighters in position to make big fights happen, ad that\u2019s exactly what we want. Everything I wanted, everything I\u2019ve asked for, he was down for it. He was like, let\u2019s do it, let\u2019s make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Berlanga praised White for sticking with fighters who have losses on their records.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing I like about Dana is that is how he deals with fighters that have losses, I feel like a lot of promoters when a fighter has losses or a couple losses, they push them to the side, And with Dana, I feel like you see all these UFC guys, they got 7 losses, 5 losses, 6 losses, and you know, they\u2019re still superstars in the UFC. It\u2019s supposed to be the same way for us boxers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just blessed and highly favored that Dana sees the stardom. He came and said, listen, you\u2019re gonna be headlining Madison Square Garden once again, because he knows at the end of the day even coming off a loss, he knows I\u2019m still the biggest name that\u2019s talked about in boxing, I tip my hat off to him for that. And I appreciate him and Nick Khan and Paramount TV.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Shakur Stevenson announced he was signing with Zuffa Boxing, Berlanga predicts more big-name fighters will sign with the new promotion.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a growing promotion now. They see me, they see Richardson, they see Shakur now is on board. You know what I\u2019m saying? You\u2019re probably gonna see Devin Haney signing. There\u2019s gonna be a lot of big names now coming to Zuffa. I feel like I took the leap of faith, and now you see Shakur there.. Now that Shakur\u2019s there, I feel like Devin\u2019s gonna jump on board, and a lot of other big names in the sport is going to jump on board just because, you know, they see the big fighters signing with Zuffa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden Boy\/Cris Esqueda Edgar Berlanga has some strong praise for Dana White. Earlier this year, Berlanga left Matchroom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,15032,82],"class_list":["post-803993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edgar-berlanga","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803993","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=803993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}