After suffering his first-ever defeat to Canelo Alvarez last September, super middleweight Edgar Berlanga will kick off his 2025 campaign against Jonathan Gonzalez-Ortiz on Matchroom’s March 15th “Ammo” Williams vs Patrice Volny show in Orlando.
Matchroom’s announcement Tweet highlights Gonzalez-Ortiz’s (20-0-1, 16 KO) undefeated record, but as you’ve probably guessed, there’s not a whole lot of substance to it. He was a solid amateur who was working his way up the ranks in the early 2010s, including a draw with longtime super welterweight titlist Serhiy Dzinziruk, but left the sport in 2014.
Last year, after a decade on the sidelines, he returned at middleweight with a pair of wins over 5-23 Jose Saint-Hilaire Gil and 14-5 Edward Ulloa Diaz. Stirring stuff.
Berlanga (22-1, 17 KO) is still no. 3 with the WBO, no. 6 with the WBC, and no. 4 with the WBA, so he shouldn’t be too far from a major fight. Hopefully this doesn’t eat up too much of his time.