Lawrence Okolie has weighed in for his world title combat towards Lukasz Rozanski on Friday night time and has now made a daring prediction.
The previous WBO cruiserweight world champion will face Rozanski for the WBC bridgerweight title in entrance of the Polish contender’s dwelling crowd and he continues his ascent in direction of the heavyweight division.
Okolie appeared in wonderful situation on the scales and weighed in at 101.4 kilos, comfortably throughout the bridgerweight restrict, which exhibits that is perhaps a extra appropriate weight for the Hackney native.
Rozanski, undefeated with a 15-0 report following final yr’s first-round knockout of Alen Babic, weighed in at 101 kilos.
Okolie, who’s combating with new coach Joe Gallagher for the primary time, appears assured together with his pre-fight speak and guarantees a stoppage.
“The one factor that issues is the combat. I’m going to be very composed and scientific. I’ve obtained a number of knockouts, and a number of other early knockouts in my profession and I’m going to get again to that. I win by stoppage. It’ll be an excellent counter shot or good work to the physique.”
He then revealed it had been a lot better working in direction of this new increased weight.
“Whenever you’re strolling round at 118kg, cruiserweight isn’t occurring. Even now I’ve to make bridgerweight, nevertheless it’s quite a bit nicer weight minimize.”
Lastly he predicted how the combat may go and what his opponent may do, on condition that Rozanski has as of but not gone previous 4 rounds in any combat and has in reality stopped 14 of his 15 opponents, together with 13 inside the primary two rounds.
“You don’t get to 16 fights with 15 KOs with out wanting it, so I believe Rozanski goes to return flying out and attempt to assert himself and it’s as much as me to indicate him my pedigree, the extent I’ve been at for various years and the truth that I’ve obtained nice punch energy myself – particularly with the additional weight that I’ve placed on and never having to empty myself to make the burden, I ought to placed on a really explosive efficiency.”
That is Okolie’s first combat since he misplaced his cruiserweight title to Chris Billam-Smith, who himself will defend that title towards Richard Riakporhe in June.
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