By Mark Vester
Winky Wright made it clear that fighting Bernard Hopkins at a catch-weight of 170-pounds is a one-shot deal. On a recent conference call with the media, Wright said that he is not light heavyweight and has no intention of staying at the weight. He plans to move back down to the middleweight or super middleweight division. He only took the fight with Hopkins to prove that he can beat him.
"I’m not a light heavyweight. I’m not a super middleweight. I’m a middleweight, junior middleweight, you know what I mean? This fight just to prove to people that, you know, I can beat him," Wright said. "I’m not a light heavyweight. I’m not campaigning as a light heavyweight. This fight is just to prove that I can beat Bernard Hopkins. We both – a long time ago, we talked about it and it never came about, and now it came about. Let’s do it and put it behind me and move on."
Wright is the current betting favorite as the July 21 meeting with Hopkins draws near. Should he win, Oscar De La Hoya, his business partner, is the man he wants to fight next.
"I want Oscar, you know what I mean? I feel that, you know, I’m the only fighter that he hasn’t fought. I’m the fighter that beat everybody that beat him except for Floyd (Mayweather), and you know, that’s the next biggest fight I just hope I don’t really see anyone else out there for him but me that, you know, with the credibility that could really, that could bring him the big fight that he wants," Wright said.
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