WOULD I be right to say last year wasn’t the year you had hoped it would be?
I was promised dates here and there and they fell through. No fault of our own. Last year was a bit slow, but we’ve started the new year with the big-fight news we’d been hoping for.
How big is this European title fight against Abass Baraou?
I think it’s up there with the best of them. He’s a decent name, it’s a big title, we’re both ranked highly with the WBA and at this stage of my career this is the type of fight that I need. I can’t rebuild at this stage; I think that’s the major thing for me. I can’t go back to the drawing board and start again and try and get a few easy fights to then get bigger fights. I’m at the stage where it’s all or nothing at this point.
Are you saying if you were to get beat then that would be it?
I wouldn’t say that would be it, but it’d be
