
Maccarinelli Ready For More: ‘My Critics Spurred Me On!’
What a difference a title win can make, the last time I saw Enzo Maccarinelli he was fighting on the undercard of Paul Smith’s win over Tony Dodson, a single stanza win over Zoltan Czekus, and the popular Welshman, though his usual gregarious self when speaking with me later that night, had seemed a little bit jaded, a man still struggling to come to terms with his recent reversal in form. Defeats to David Haye, in 2008, Ola Afolabi and Denis Lebedev, both in 2009, all three coming by stoppage, had knocked the stuffing out off ‘Big Mac’ and left him staring into the boxing abyss.
