Gabe Rosado aims to make fight with Edgar Berlanga, says it’s up to Matchroom Boxing to make it happen.
In an interview with Fight Hub TV, Gabe Rosado breaks down why he’s pushing for a fight against Edgar Berlanga, their history, and why he thinks it’ll be a big fight. Rosado also shares his insight into the upcoming fight between David Benavidez and David Morrell. Check out some of what Rosado had to say below.
“It’s a conversation the me and him have had for years now. When he was climbing the rankings he was always calling me out. But it’s a situation where we were on a facetime call, me, him and his father and I was like ‘Do your thing against Canelo, bro. But after that let’s run this’ and it’s the perfect opportunity ‘cause it’s in Puerto Rico, two Puerto Rican fighters. And it’s up to Eddie Hearn, man.
“My last fight was a rematch with Bek and to be honest with you I ain’t had no motivation in that fight because I already knocked him out, so how am I going to top that? I had knockou of the year when I knocked him out so it was just a fight where, honestly, I took it for the wrong reasons and after that I was like ‘I’m done.’ But this is a fight where it got so much drama to it. He from New York, from Brooklyn, I’m from Philly, North Philly, we both Puerto Ricans — it’s like, bro, it’s the perfect recipe.
“And Matchroom and Eddie Hearn needs to realize what that history is, Philly-Brooklyn, two Puerto Ricans, what it does for the island. It’s bigger than they think.
“It’s a fight where I’ll be motivated for. He looked good against Canelo in the aspect of he showed heart. I’m not saying he looked good skill-wise because Canelo was definitely the more experienced guy but he proved that he had heart and he proved that he went in there to actually win and not just get a paycheck. ‘Cause that was my concern...I give him respect for that and he gonna come even better than he was ‘cause now he gonna take some tricks he learned from Canelo and bring that to the table, but I feel like even with that I still could beat him.”
“That’s a really good fight. I favor Benavidez, I know Benavidez for years now. I’ve done camps with Benavidez, our first sparring session was like 10 years ago when he was a young boul. I favor Benavidez but you can’t sleep on Morrell. This is a fight where Benavidez ain’t have to take this fight, Morrell was the one that needs this fight.
“So for real, for real, Morrell’s in a situation where he kinda hit the jackpot. So if he can win this fight, he there, ‘cause nobody really was calling Morrell out. So that just shows what kind of dog Benavidez is that he like ‘alright whatever, let’s go, let’s run it.’
“I think (Morrell) is waking up a different kind of beast in Benavidez (with the pre-fight trash talk)...but at the same time it’s going to be a fire fight. They both going to clash and it’s going to be a matter of who can take it ‘cause they both going to land shots. I think Morrell is the bigger puncher out of the two but I think Benavidez gets you out of there with the volume. So what’s going to win, is it going to be power or is it going to be volume? That’s what I really think it comes down to.”
