Bob Arum’s promotional company has reserved Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater for back-to-back Saturday nights in June.

BoxingScene.com has learned that Top Rank Inc. intends to have Brooklyn-based super middleweight contender Edgar Berlanga headline a show at The Garden’s smaller venue in Manhattan the night of June 11 against an undetermined opponent. Assuming Arum’s company finalizes a deal for a light heavyweight title unification bout between Artur Beterbiev and Joe Smith Jr., their 12-round, 175-pound championship match would be the main event of Top Rank’s show June 18 at Hulu Theater.

ESPN would televise the June 11 and June 18 cards.

For these two shows to proceed as planned, however, the unbeaten Berlanga must defeat Steve Rolls in a 10-round main event ESPN will air Saturday night from Hulu Theater. If Berlanga beats Rolls, Top Rank’s matchmakers will assess his options for June 11 based on how he performs Saturday night.

FanDuel Sportsbook lists the 24-year-old Berlanga (18-0, 16 KOs) as an 18-1 favorite to defeat Rolls (21-1, 12 KOs).

The 37-year-old Rolls will battle Berlanga in Berlanga’s return from an uneven performance against Argentina’s Marcelo Coceres on October 9 in Las Vegas. The hard-hitting Berlanga tore his left biceps in the third round of that bout, but he fought through that significant injury, got up from a flash knockdown during the ninth round and defeated Coceres (30-3-1, 16 KOs) on all three scorecards on the Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder undercard at T-Mobile Arena.

Berlanga’s injury required surgery and approximately three months of physical therapy and rest, which kept him out of the gym until January.

Toronto’s Rolls is most known for his fourth-round knockout loss to Kazakh knockout artist Gennadiy Golovkin (41-1-1, 36 KOs) in their 12-round, non-title middleweight fight in June 2019 at Madison Square Garden.

Meanwhile, Arum and co-promoters for Beterbiev (Yvon Michel) and Smith (Joe DeGuardia) are inching closer toward completing a deal for them to fight for Beterbiev’s IBF and WBC and Smith’s WBO light heavyweight titles. The winner between Beterbiev (17-0, 17 KOs) and Smith (28-3, 22 KOs), assuming their fight doesn’t result in a draw or no-contest, would need only the WBA 175-pound title to become boxing’s fully unified light heavyweight champion.

Russia’s Dmitry Bivol (19-0, 11 KOs) will defend his WBA 175-pound crown against Canelo Alvarez (57-1-2, 39 KOs) on May 7 at T-Mobile Arena.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.