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Edgar Berlanga's Wife Calls For Hamzah Sheeraz Investigation

The wife of Edgar Berlanga is making strong claims about Hamzah Sheeraz nefariously tampering with his hand wraps last weekend.
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Edgar Berlanga was knocked out by Hamzah Sheeraz in brutal fashion during the fifth round of their July 12 fight in New York. While many expected Sheeraz to defeat Berlanga, the fashion in which he did so surprised many.

And it has also prompted Berlanga's wife to make a damning claim about Sheeraz, which she conveyed in a July 16 Instagram post.

"I’m not one to speak out often… but this time I can’t stay silent," her post wrote.

"We can take a loss with humility, we always do. But when something doesn’t sit right, it’s okay to question it. The left hand that dropped Edgar had a wrap that looked tampered with, yellow-stained, hard, and suspicious. And that wrap wasn’t even removed after the fight.

"Let’s not ignore what’s right in front of us just because you 'don’t like' how someone carries themselves in the ring. This is a sport. It’s entertainment. What you see is part of the show. But behind it all is a good man with a good heart," the caption added.

"To know Edgar is to love him and we’ll always stand for truth and fairness."

In the Instagram photos within the post, it added, "Why was only one of [Sheeraz's] hand wraps removed? After the fight, only [Sheeraz] right hand wrap was removed for inspeection. But it was the left hand that dropped my husband. Why wasn't that wrap taken off immediately?"

The post also suggested that Sheeraz had yellow stains on his left hand wrap, which Berlanga's wife could be because of a hard cast under it. She also speculated that he reason for this yellow tint could be "resin or epoxy - both completely illegal."

One can't fault Berlanga's wife for having her husband's back and in his best interests in mind. But these claims are going to roll many folks' eyes in the boxing community.

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Grant Young is a Staff Writer for On SI’s Boxing, New York Mets, Indiana Fever, and Women’s Fastbreak sites. Before joining SI in 2024, he wrote for various boxing and sports verticals such as FanBuzz and NY Fights. Young has a bachelor’s degree in marketing and a master’s degree in creative writing with an emphasis on sports nonfiction from the University of San Francisco, where he played five seasons of Division 1 baseball. He fought Muay Thai professionally in Thailand in 2023, loves a good essay, and is driven crazy trying to handle a pitpull puppy named Aura. Young lives in San Diego and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.