Edgar Berlanga drops Steven Butler but rallies to win at Madison Square Garden

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 26: Edgar Berlanga punches Steven Butler during a super middleweight bout at Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden on July 26, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Evan Bernstein/Getty Images) | Getty Images Edgar Berlanga nearly suffered his own setback on his Zuffa debut, getting dropped in the second against Steven Butler before rallying back to stop him in seven rounds. It certainly wasn’t exactly the kind of performance Berlanga would’ve been hoping for, but he did end up with a win nonetheless. Here’s some of what he had to say in the post-fight press conference. Berlanga on getting dropped in the second “It was a good shot. It was a good hook. I mean, I’m a warrior, man. Shook it off and got right back to it.” On Butler ultimately getting stopped “He was just taking punishment. At this point he wasn’t even — listen, Steven Butler’s dangerous. A wounded animal is a dangerous animal and I seen his fights numerous times. He never got put out flat in any of his fights, it was always the ref jumping in and stopping the fight and he was angry ‘cause they stopped it. “I had him hurt a couple of times and I didn’t really want to press the gas because he was still talking to me hurt…But it was a great fight.” On who he wants to fight next “I want Chris Eubank. I’ve been talking about him for a long time. I think that’ll be a big, big fight in London. We can get it on in November, December. I’m really trying to shoot for that fight but if he’s not on the menu you got Jaime Munguia. That’s a big fight I want. Mexico vs Puerto Rico…You got Caleb Plant, I don’t know if he’s still retired or coming back. You got Jermall Charlo, that’s a great fight as well. And you know the fight we want, man. The Hamzah Sheeraz fight. We want that fight, we want that smoke. “But before I get that fight I want a world title and I want to take it from either Munguia or one of these guys, that way when we do meet up with Hamzah Sheeraz…it’ll be a unification fight and it’s going to be the biggest fight in boxing.”