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“THAT CAN NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN”

EXPLAIN what you’ve gone through since the sudden collapse of your fight against Conor Benn.

You can’t have a more frustrating experience than going through a whole camp, cutting weight, and then have the fight fall through 48 hours before you’re supposed to get in the ring. What’s even more crazy about it is that it’s still not resolved. There are still so many unanswered questions. For me, I had to get back out as soon as possible. I tried to make this fight with Liam [Smith] happen in December but we couldn’t do it, so January it is. The plan is to then fight in the summer and again at to be active.

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