Boxing
Edgar Berlanga, Steve Rolls weight training for Saturday’s battle
Edgar Berlanga and Steve Rolls on Friday carried the weights for their super-middleweight 10-round bout Saturday in New York City (ESPN, ESPN+).
The Berlanga weighs 167.4 pounds, well below the division limit of 0.6. The whole roll weighs 167.8.
Berlanga (18-0, 16 KOs) is making a unanimous decision victory over Marcelo Esteban Coceres in October, a match where he tore his bicep and went down in Round 9.
The 24-year-old from Brooklyn stopped each of his first 16 opponents in the first round.
Rolls (21-1, 12 KOs) is best known for his fourth round knockout loss to Gennadiy Golovkin in 2019. He won the next two by knockout, albeit against opponents. second class.