Just as Wimbledon is winding down, action at the home of the U.S. Open will heat up. Boxing action, that is. Swinging rackets will be replaced by swinging fists Saturday night when the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center hosts boxing for the first time.

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.

Sheeraz had reeled off 15 in a row before his very fortunate draw against Adames, while Berlanga’s first 16 pro bouts were all won by stoppage in addition to more recent meetings with the likes of Gonzalez-Ortiz and Ireland’s Padraig McCrory either side of that defeat by Canelo.

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