{"id":282524,"date":"2025-07-22T12:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/282524\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:50:15","slug":"claressa-shields-believes-edgar-berlanga-can-bounce-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/282524\/","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":282525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,10188,10181,10187,10186,10179,4496,10182,10183,10184,10185,10180,10193,10192,10175,10173,10174,10190,10176,10172,10194,10189,79,10191,10171,10178,16,15,10177],"class_list":{"0":"post-282524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114896976274387824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}