Their new promoter announced Tuesday that Berlanga will end a one-year layoff versus Steven Butler in the 10-round main event of Zuffa’s card scheduled for July 26 at Madison Square Garden’s Infosys Theater in New York. Hitchins’ opponent in the 12-round co-feature, Ricardo Salas, was announced as well.

Paramount+ will stream the Berlanga-Butler and Hitchins-Salas bouts as part of a tripleheader. The opener of the three-bout telecast, which begins at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PST, hasn’t been announced.

Zuffa announced the signings of Berlanga and Hitchins in April.

Brooklyn’s Berlanga (23-2, 18 KOs) will try to rebuild his career after a destructive fifth-round knockout loss to England’s Hamzah Sheeraz (23-0-1, 19 KOs) last July 12 in the main event of “The Ring III” card at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York. Sheeraz dropped the 29-year-old Berlanga twice during the fourth round and the super middleweight was on his way down a third time when referee David Fields halted the action 17 seconds into the fifth.

Berlanga’s only other loss was a 12-round unanimous decision to former undisputed super middleweight champ Canelo Alvarez (63-3-2, 39 KOs) in September 2024.

Montreal’s Butler (38-5-1, 32 KOs) is considered a puncher, but each of his five defeats have come by knockout or technical knockout.

Butler, 30, has won four straight fights since Patrice Volny (20-2, 13 KOs) stopped him in the ninth round of their June 2024 bout in Montreal, also Volny’s hometown. He campaigned at junior middleweight and middleweight for the first 10 years of his pro career, before he moved up to the super middleweight limit of 168 pounds after Volny defeated him.

Hitchins will end an even longer layoff than Berlanga.

The former IBF junior welterweight champ hasn’t boxed since his eighth-round technical knockout of former unified lightweight champ George Kambosos Jr. last June at the same venue where he’ll battle Salas.

Hitchins (20-0, 8 KOs), also a Brooklyn native, was scheduled to defend his IBF 140-pound championship against Mexico’s Oscar Duarte on February 21 in Las Vegas. He made weight February 20, only to surprisingly withdraw the morning he was supposed to face Duarte on the Ryan Garcia-Mario Barrios undercard at T-Mobile Arena.

The 28-year-old Hitchins relinquished his IBF belt in April and announced he’ll compete at welterweight.

Mexico City’s Salas (24-2-2, 18 KOs) has won six straight fights since he settled for a 10-round majority draw with Chester Parada (then 12-3) in October 2023 in Tijuana. The 27-year-old Salas’ two losses were split-decision defeats to Abraham Juarez (then 6-1) in March 2018 and Julio Luna (then 15-0-2) in August 2021.