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“FURY STILL BEATS USYK”

HOW DO you rate your performance against Michael Webster on November 18?

Just thank God I got the win in that one [laughs]. It weren’t my best performance. I wasn’t sharp, I wasn’t anywhere near my best. It was short notice; two weeks. I’d been away for five weeks with [Tyson] Fury, doing bits of sparring. When you’re a sparring partner, you’re not really doing the rounds for yourself. So, I was ticking over doing a bit of sparring, got the callup and had to take it, really.

Did you think you had won?

I was feeling at the end, ‘I won this by one, maybe two

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