{"id":16053,"date":"2025-07-22T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/16053\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:11:09","slug":"hamzah-sheeraz-breaks-silence-on-wrap-gate-takes-the-accusation-as-a-compliment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/16053\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamzah Sheeraz breaks silence on ‘Wrap-gate,’ takes the accusation as a compliment"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON, England \u2014 Hamzah Sheeraz<\/a> has broken his silence on accusations that he knocked out Edgar Berlanga <\/a>wearing illegal hand wraps \u2014 and says he takes it as a compliment.
Sheeraz despatched Edgar Berlanga in the fifth round<\/a> of their super middleweight clash on the Ring III card in New York on July 12.<\/p>\n

But within days, Berlanga\u2019s wife Genesis Calderon uploaded a detailed carousel to Instagram in which she suggested that there was something suspicious about Sheeraz\u2019s left hand wrap.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

She claimed the discolouration of the wrap could be signs of “resin or epoxy” and called for the situation to be investigated. \u201cEdgar went 12 rounds with Canelo [Alvarez] and came out looking better than he did here,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThat says a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now Sheeraz (22-0-1, 18 KOs)<\/a>, who moved up to No. 7 in The Ring\u2019s super middleweight ranking<\/a>s as a result of the victory, has addressed those accusations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely silly,\u201d he told The Ring on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a compliment if anything because it goes to show that I gave him such a bad beating that they\u2019re stooping so low to find an excuse as to why he got beat so bad.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not, ‘Hamzah Sheeraz was the better man on the night,’ and that\u2019s it. They can throw as many accusations as they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In what was arguably the best performance of his career, Sheeraz dropped Berlanga (23-2, 18 KOs) twice in the fourth round before he found the finish after just 17 seconds of the fifth.<\/p>\n

He is now in line for a shot at the undisputed super middleweight title, held by Alvarez, who must first fight Terence Crawford in Las Vegas on Sept. 13.<\/a><\/p>\n

Berlanga, 28, has lost two of his last three outings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, England \u2014 Hamzah Sheeraz has broken his silence on accusations that he knocked out Edgar Berlanga wearing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":["post-16053","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-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-results","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-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}