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On whether he believes a fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will get made:
On how he believes a fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao would play out if it was made, and why he believes it ultimately will not be made:
His views on the current champions in the heavyweight division:
On whether he was disappointed he never got his chance to fight Vitali Klitschko despite the fact the fight was signed numerous times before Klitschko had to pull out because of various injuries:
On what he believes was the difference between his first and second fights with Lewis:
On the seemingly bad advice he received from his corner in between rounds that may have led to his knockout loss in the Lewis rematch:
Full interview: http://www.********boxing.com/news.php?p=24168&more=1
“No, I don’t think it’s going to get made.”
“Okay. I see Floyd winning a decision in the fight. I don’t think he’ll really take the chances. Floyd’s an excellent boxer and an excellent defensive boxer. I really don’t see him taking the chances. I don’t think it would be a terribly exciting fight. I think Floyd is clever enough in the ring. He’s smart enough in the ring to not get caught by any of those huge shots by Pacquiao. I believe that Pacquiao is the more exciting fighter but Floyd is the better boxer. Floyd is the smarter boxer in the ring and I just think he’ll use his smarts and skills to stay out of harm’s way and cruise his way to a unanimous decision. I just don’t think that Floyd believes Manny is a clean fighter. I just feel like he thinks he went from ordinary to extraordinary. I’ve been at Manny Pacquiao fights with Floyd. We were at the Erik Morales fight together. Manny looked like an entirely different fighter so I think that’s on Floyd’s mind. If Manny doesn’t want to take the drug test I just don’t see Floyd getting in there. It’s not about the fourteen day cutoff. I think the problem’s going to be that they want unlimited, the same tests that Shane took, I think Floyd’s going to insist on that. That’s just my personal opinion.”
“Well I mean I can’t really say anything bad about the Klitschkos. They’ve beaten everyone that you put in front of them. I don’t think that the American public really is too enthusiastic about them because they’re safety first, but they’re winning. David Haye would be somebody that America, I believe, will fall in love with if he came over here and fought because he takes a bit more chances and pretty much all of his fights end in knockout, so I believe there’s a lot of potential there. But these guys need to fight each other. Obviously Wladimir and Vitali are not going to fight each other, but David Haye needs to fight one if not both Klitschkos so we can get one champion. We got one world, we need one world champion.”
“I was extremely disappointed at the time, but I feel like if something gets taken from me that something equal or better will come along my way. I don’t really focus too much on the door that’s closing on me because I might miss the door that’s opening. So I just look for something better coming my way.”
“I got ****y. I felt like that he wasn’t recovered from what I did to him in South Africa. I mean mentally, I didn’t think he was recovered and then we had a tussle, actually. At the press conference in the build up to the fight, and it was on ESPN, and we wound up physically tussling. I felt like I could man-handle him. I wound up throwing him onto the ground, wound up wrecking ESPN’s stage set, and his body guards were trying to hold me back so I not only threw him on the ground but I had the bodyguards trying to stop me—because he couldn’t stop me. So I just felt like I’m too strong for this man. I felt like there was nothing he could do to me because I’m just too strong for him.”
“I don’t know. I mean, my corner wouldn’t have been my corner but I had loaned my trainer like $300,000 before the fight. I couldn’t fire him, but he was not my trainer—I mean, he really wasn’t doing anything the whole time in preparations and then that fight night, he didn’t really prepare me for the fight, anyway, because he had another fighter on the card who fought right before me, who was a friend of mine—William Joppy. He fought right before me and then he came back and tried to rush to get me into the ring. That’s just not what you do when you got the heavyweight champion of the world. You’re fighting for the biggest prize in the sport. So forget any other fighters on the card, especially right before the main event, but it is what it is. I don’t really feel like I had a trainer in that fight.”
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