Edgar Berlanga leads the way on Zuffa Boxing\u2019s New York show on Sunday, July 26, when he faces Canadian contender Steven Butler.<\/p>\n
Former IBF 140lbs champion Richardson Hitchins is also on the Infosys Theater at\u00a0Madison Square Garden bill against Ricardo Salas at welterweight.<\/p>\n
Berlanga, 23-2 (18 KOs) has not boxed since a one-sided loss to Hamzah Sheeraz in New York last July.<\/p>\n
Veteran Butler is now 38-5-1 (32 KOs), has won his last four but has career losses to Patrice Volney, Janibek Alimkhanuly, Jose de Jesus Macia, Ryoto Murata and Brandon Cook. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Berlanga and Butler will box a 10-rounder.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve proven that I\u2019m ready to return to the international stage,\u201d the 30-year-old Butler said. \u201cI\u2019ve fought in Japan, so New York doesn\u2019t intimidate me. In fact, it\u2019s perfect because it\u2019s not too far from my training camp in Connecticut. As for the rest, I\u2019m working hard, and I plan to seize my opportunity in New York. You\u2019ll see. This is my moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hitchins, like Berlanga \u2013 from Brooklyn \u2013 is 20-0 (8 KOs) and the 28-year-old will box at 147lbs for the first time having scared wins over Liam Paro and George Kambosos in his last two bouts.<\/p>\n
Salas is 24-2-2 (18 KOs), and they will contest a 12-round fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edgar Berlanga leads the way on Zuffa Boxing\u2019s New York show on Sunday, July 26, when he faces…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,11121,213544,29915,101,108316,56,54,55,44291],"class_list":["post-630267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-edgar-berlanga","tag-ricardo-salas","tag-richardson-hitchins","tag-sports","tag-steven-butler","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-zuffa-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630267","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=630267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}