HOW do you reflect on Joe Cordina’s performance against Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov?
It was a tough fight. We always knew it was going to be a tough fight – Rakhimov puts everything on the line. He throws a lot of punches, is tough.
Like Joe was saying, you’ve got to be a little bit more than just tough and come-forward to beat Joe Cordina. He’s tough himself, has got a great chin, can punch – he had Rakhimov on the floor – and he’s a smart boxer, defensively. He showed everything he’s got, and I had him winning by at least two or three rounds.
Anytime you step up to fight a top-10 fighter, you’re always in for a chance of having a gut-check fight.
His hand’s fine. A top surgeon, Mike Hayton, operated on him and put pins in the bone where he’d broke it. What the doctor was saying was he’ll never damage that ever again. It’s near enough impossible to damage it, because it’s held together.
I’m always busy in my gym, because we’ve got so many fighters. I done the press conference, left the arena at 1am, drove back to London and got on a flight straight to here [Los Angeles] with
