Jarrell Miller Rips Joshua, Fury, Luis Ortiz, Parker, Andy Ruiz Too
By Steve Kim
When you ask Jarrell 'Big Baby' Miller - who faces Nick Guivas on Friday night as the main event on CBS Sports Network from the Seneca Niagra Casino and Resort - if there is any contemporary heavyweights that he respects, he can't really come up with an answer.
"Active, right now? Uhhhhh," said Miller on Thursday afternoon.
Then Miller (16-0-1, 14 KO's) gets more blunt, describing both Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua (who have heavyweight belts) as ''clowns."
As for Luis Ortiz, he states - "No, I don't respect him. I just don't. People say,'oh he knocked out Bryant Jennings.' Who the hell is Bryant Jennings? He has no pop but he has tremendous conditioning . So I give him credit where it's due but he's never been hit by a solid punch from a really good guy before."
Right now Miller can be classified as a young contender like Joseph Parker and Andy Ruiz. And yes, he has rather harsh opinions of them, too.
Of Parker, who just recently defeated Carlos Takam,"He's gonna get punked if he fights me, that's for sure.
As for Ruiz, Miller stated,"Oh my goodness, I'll go to McDonalds and come out and fight him with one hand. He might be with me at McDonald's so he might beat me at a hamburger eating contest but he ain't beating me in a sparring match, he ain't beating me in a real fight. Sh*t, Nathan's hot dog eating contest he aint beating me in that, either."
The there's Alexander Povetkin, of who he says,"Definitely not a big fan of Povetkin. He's strong but he can't box. A lot of guys are strong but I can out-box him."
Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com.
