Devon Alexander opens up about condition, boxing goings-on
Devon Alexander has weighed in on his condition in light of his upcoming January 29 bout with WBO king Timothy Bradley, and exposed some of the artificiality of his division.
In a boxingscene.com interview, the WBC junior welterweight champion said: "Everything is going good. I’m just shaking up right now at the gym. Not doing anything too hard. Just getting loose and getting my body back to training a little bit. Heading to
camp in a few weeks. It’s going to be in Vegas again. I’ll be up in the mountains, running up Mount Charleston. I’ll be ready."
“Alexander the Great” has been anticipating a bout with Bradley for months to determine the best of the best in the junior welterweight division. It is expected that the winner will take on the winner of a December 11 bout between WBA champ Amir Khan and
Marcos Maidana.
Alexander touched on Bradley’s achievements, noting: "He’s accomplished what he accomplished. He’s an okay fighter. He’s a hard worker and he’ll come ready to go twelve rounds. But [he’s] nothing special [...] In this fight I am just going to go back to
the basics and I am going to do what I’ve been doing. My speed is going to kill him and my angles are going to kill him. He’s not going to see any of my punches."
A report by Fanhouse yesterday confirmed that while the bout between the two will be a unification bout, it will only be so for Alexander. Due to an ongoing dispute with the World Boxing Council (WBC), Bradley has refused to pay the necessary sanctioning
fees to the council, provoking them to dishonour his claim at the title. Likewise, while Alexander can win Bradley’s WBO title and honour his WBC, Bradley will only be fighting to maintain his title and improve his reputation.
Finally Alexander spoke about Khan and called him a "hype job," saying: "I think Amir Khan is a hype job. He’s just a hype job. He’s over there with Pacquiao. I mean he’s with Freddie Roach and all that but he’s just a hype job. Amir Khan hasn’t beat anybody
who is the best in the division. He fought Malignaggi, who was pretty much done, and who else has he fought? In my opinion, he’s just a hype job trying to act better than what he is.”
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