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Have you ever heard him say the things he was saying about his own brother? Because I can honestly say I haven't.

 

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On how he rates his performance in his tenth round knockout victory against Craig McEwan:

“It’s bittersweet with the outcome of the fight because I boxed terribly really for the most part of the fight, except for the first round and the last round. I didn’t have much energy in there and I felt kind of weak. He was getting off on me and landing with a lot of punches, really. I was kind of just surviving through the rounds and I couldn’t get it together. I don’t want to make any excuses. I want to review the fight. I watched it, but I want to watch it even more and just go through it. After six rounds I was basically losing the fight. It looked like I could have been stopped. If I had another round like that I could have been out, but something inside me wouldn’t allow myself to go down like that. I just kind of basically willed myself through it. I turned it around and fought hard and eventually caught up with him in round nine. I started putting punches together instead of looking for one big punch. I caught McEwan at the end in the last round so I showed a lot of heart and courage but I didn’t show my boxing ability to where I would have liked it. So like I said, it’s bittersweet.”

On whether or not he was ever seriously hurt by McEwan at any point in the fight:

“I don’t know if I was hurt where I would have been knocked out or anything like, but he caught me with some good punches. Yeah, he was a strong puncher. He’s stronger than he looks and stronger than I thought he was. He landed some good body shots, also. He hits pretty good. He never hurt me to wear I was dazed or my legs were wobbly, but he did hit me with some hard shots. So I’ll have to tighten up my defense and make a lot of improvements because I shouldn’t have fought to take punches like I did.”

On why he thinks McEwan was able to land so many punches against him:

“I don’t know, but for some reason or another even in the first round, I just felt like I didn’t have the energy I should have had. I felt weak and he was able to get off on me. My timing was, I don’t know what it is. I don’t want to make any excuses, but he basically put it on me. I have to watch the tape and see exactly what I did wrong, but he was landing clean shots on me. I’m lucky I got a good chin and I could take a good punch. I had the resolve. During the fight I was thinking to myself, ‘I’m losing the fight here’. Had I lost that fight, after the Vera and then if I had lost that fight, what would have been all over was, ‘Yeah, a nice guy, he could fight, but when it came time to step up he couldn’t hold up with the next level’. So I had to win that fight someway by hook or by crook. I dragged it out of myself and finally got a knockout. It was a tough night and my hat goes off to Craig McEwan. He’s a very good boxer and he’s very unlucky to get stopped in the last round. He was very unlucky to go out the way he did because 9 times out of 10 he might have boxed and seen out the round, but I wasn’t going to lose that fight and someway I was going to catch up with him and eventually I did. Another night I mightn’t have been as lucky, but I got to him.”

 

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