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WHAT’S your opinion of Berlanga?

I think he’s very good. He obviously beat Jason Quigley, who I thought gave him a few problems. Quigley was a great amateur and is a good boxer, so to be able to do that to Quigley shows that he’s good. I think Berlanga’s a good fighter. He seems to have slowed down a bit because in his first 16 fights he had first-round knockouts. I think that’s affected him negatively, because he’s not knocking people out now. He’s a good fighter, he’s strong, he’s aggressive and I’m under no illusion of what I’m up against.

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