By Mark Vester

Light heavyweight Prince Badi Ajamu, close to his Saturday night dream fight with one of his idols, Roy Jones, Jr. tells the Idaho Stateman that he is ready for whatever the former champion brings to the ring at the Qwest Arena in Boise, Idaho. Ajamu did not turn pro until his was 28-years-old and never pictured himself one day fighting the man many considered at one point the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.

"I never imagined fighting Roy. I always watched him. He was always pleasing to watch, and now to find out I'm fighting Roy, that caught me off-guard," Ajamu said. "But I'm ready."

Ajamu feels that the fight means more to him than to Jones, because Jones has been to the top and even if he Jones beats him, the win would add nothing to what Jones has already accomplished in his career. Jones may be looking at Ajamu as a payday, but Ajamu is looking at Jones as a big ticket to make a name for himself.

"I can't imagine this fight meaning more to Roy than it does to me. He's been to the mountaintop," Ajamu said. "There is nothing in him beating me that could really offer him anything that he hasn't accomplished."

Ajamu, is being trained by Buddy McGirt, the same man who trained Antonio Tarver to defeat Jones twice.