BoxingScene.com caught up with former IBF junior middleweight champion Ishe Smith (25-6) shortly after his promoter Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced that Smith would face WBA junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (19-1-2) on May 2nd, the eve of Mayweather's pay-per-view showdown against Marcos Maidana in Las Vegas.
Smith said that he had known about the fight for quite some time and also revealed that he had asked to face the often avoided Lara. The native Las Vegan said that after he lost his title to Carlos Molina last September, he could have taken a tune up fight but insisted that he wanted to get right back in a big, meaningful fight.
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Smith said that he had known about the fight for quite some time and also revealed that he had asked to face the often avoided Lara. The native Las Vegan said that after he lost his title to Carlos Molina last September, he could have taken a tune up fight but insisted that he wanted to get right back in a big, meaningful fight.
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