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His views on what went wrong in his last fight when he lost the middleweight title against Sergio Martinez:

“I think the weight had a lot to do with it in that fight. In the middle rounds we were outboxing him and beating him, and we just hit a wall in the eighth round. The way we got the weight down and the amount of weight that I was over before the fight a couple of days before the weigh-in probably is what made me go through all of that. So I think that played a big part in it.”

On whether he is working on any specific training techniques to improve the way he deals with movement and angles:

“Yeah, it’s definitely something that you do work on. Going back again, even with Martinez like I said before, if you watch the fight in the middle rounds he was doing the movement but I was frustrating him. I was countering everything he was doing. I was coming over the top of his jab and countering him. So to a point, yeah anybody could struggle with movers and look bad against people that move a lot, but I wouldn’t say that’s something that I have to work on 100%. I showed in the middle rounds that I can outbox Martinez. The only bad thing is I just hit that wall in the eighth round and he picked it up.”

His views on the rematch between Sergio Martinez and Paul Williams:

“I think Sergio will take it. For the last fight when I watched Paul Williams fight he didn’t look that good at all. The way that fight was going he could have had some trouble later in the middle rounds of that fight, but it could be an interesting fight. I think Sergio will probably pull it out.”

On whether he is interested in potentially facing the winner of the Martinez-Williams rematch if he beats Vera and the opportunity presents itself:

“Yeah, absolutely it does. Right now that’s another plan right there. We’re just going to see what opens up and what big fights are out there. They’re mentioning Bute, that’s one fight, and maybe any title at 160, the IBF, or the winner of Martinez-Williams. So we’ll see what’s out there right now and we’ll see how things unfold after this fight.”

On why his scheduled fights against Paul Williams never materialized:

“Well first of all, with Paul Williams on that, the reason why I fought Bernard Hopkins was because Paul Williams pulled out. He had pulled out of that fight and we wanted to fight him, so that’s when we ended up fighting Bernard Hopkins. Then unfortunately with the staph infection, it was even in the Ring Magazine. They took a picture of the hand. There was nothing I could do about that. I couldn’t fight having the staph infection. We never pulled out of the fight with Paul Williams and he went on to tell everybody I was afraid to fight him, and in all reality he was the one who pulled out the first time we were supposed to fight. He pulled out because he said the money wasn’t right and they wanted this ridiculous amount of money. Everything else that they did they kind of made it to where the fight wasn’t going to happen. That was the whole situation with Paul Williams. Believe me I wasn’t afraid to fight Paul Williams. I jumped up two weight classes to fight Bernard Hopkins at light heavyweight. So if I did that, there is definitely no way that I would be afraid to fight Paul Williams.”





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