What do you think of Jordan Joseph?
What I do know is heโs got a tall frame, a tall frame with a low guard and 7-1… I canโt say Iโve sat there and watched a 10 rounder or an eight rounder. Maybe two minutes of a round. I have the idea of what heโs like.
Itโll be good. Iโm looking forward to it. A different style of fighter. My first two opponents, theyโve been a bit weird and what not but heโs going to come out and box. He might come out and he thinks, you know what Iโm here to take you out. He might come out and have a tear up. So Iโm prepared for anything.
Itโs good to have someone that thinks, โYeah Iโm going to beat Josh. Iโm here to win.โ But Iโll be getting in there with the mentality that yeah, Iโm going to beat him. It makes for a good fight.
Given your ex-GB teammates, like Lawrence Okolie headlining, Josh Kelly are making a lot of waves, are you feeling that itโs important that you start making some noise?
I feel itโs always important to make some noise and stuff like that. But what I do think is, like at the Olympics, people were being looked at well past me, but then when the fights came and it was time to do what you have to do, the true ones showed up and the true ones did what they had to do. For me, thereโs no doubt that I can fight. People might be getting in fights that thereโs more hype about, or more attention to or whatever, but ultimately we all want to be world champions. I believe whatever route Iโm taking is going to prepare me so that when that world title shot does come, Iโll be ready. Thatโs how Iโm seeing it. I could sit there and be theyโre getting this, theyโre getting that, but as long as I know Iโm improving, Iโm learning what I need to be learning, Iโm being watched carefully and Iโm putting in the work, when the time comes I believe I will do it.
World level at light-heavyweight is brutal, you might not want to rush.
Very brutal. Thatโs why I have to make sure Iโm prepared so when I get there, this is it, I can do it.
Have you been watching Artur Beterbiev, Dmitry Bivol, Adonis Stevenson, Badou Jack, closely?
I wouldnโt say Iโve been watching them closely because I havenโt even gone past national level yet.
I have to get past national level realistically before I start looking at people like that. I have to work my way up.
A British title fight, against whoever has it, those are realistic fights before 2018 is over?
Yeah, I think the way itโs going before the end of the year, theyโre looking to give me a title shot. Iโm just making sure Iโm doing what I have to do, getting the wins, improving, learning. Like I said, when the time comes with these things, I want to make sure Iโm ready.