Stevenson is the one defending a title — his WBC lightweight belt — against William Zepeda. But it is Berlanga — whose super middleweight bout against Hamzah Sheeraz has no titles at stake — who is the main event, while Stevenson is the co-main event. In the modern boxing landscape, attention is often more lucrative than accomplishments.

Amid all the hullabaloo and hysteria of a typically chaotic press conference, Edgar Berlanga still insisted he would have the last word against Hamzah Sheeraz this weekend. The Chosen One is a man typically keen to put his money where his mouth is. Across his career, the super-middleweight superstar has built a reputation he frequently backs up.

Trinidad stopped 35 of his 42 victims on his way to the International Boxing Hall of Fame and inspired a generation of fighters from his homeland and beyond. One who has gone back and studied the legendary Trinidad is Edgar Berlanga, for whom Trinidad was a staple ingredient of his boxing education over the years.

The press conference ahead of the fight between Edgar Berlanga and Hamzah Sheeraz at the Ring III event turned into chaos as the Puerto Rican boxer had promised. Tension was in the