Chris Billam-Smith has promised “absolute fireworks” when he meets Ryan Rozicki on June 6, reside on Sky Sports activities.
Billam-Smith returns to his hometown to combat Canada’s Rozicki, a brutal puncher, on the Bournemouth Worldwide Centre, headlining Zuffa Boxing’s first UK occasion.
The previous WBO world champion is getting down to return to the very high of the game. He expects a victory over Rozicki to guide him to an eventual showdown with Australia’s Jai Opetaia.
“I want to prove I’m the best cruiserweight in the world and keep improving,” Billam-Smith advised Sky Sports activities Information.
“That is what I have been doing on this 12 months out, enhancing. That is what I wish to be seen as and referred to as – the No 1 on this planet.
“And I don’t do that without beating Opetaia, so that’s the aim.”
Coach Shane McGuigan believes Billam-Smith can’t solely get the Opetaia combat, however win it when he does.
“There’s vulnerabilities there with Jai Opetaia,” McGuigan advised Sky Sports activities. “Let’s be real. He’s been hurt before by [David] Nyika but he got complacent in that fight and he got hit with a great shot.”
McGuigan did acknowledge: “When he was hurt he still fired and still got the desired effect with a brutal knockout against Nyika. But for us we’re looking at how to beat him.
“For us it is the way to drive our combat on him and, with out making a gift of an excessive amount of, the way to drive him into our combat.”
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Chris Billam-Smith insists a combat with Jai Opetaia ‘will certainly occur’ and says it is a huge consider his determination to signal with Zuffa
He added: “There are very good wins [on Opetaias’ record. Mairis] Briedis I think was one of the best fighters the cruiserweight division has had. That was a huge win, especially so early on in his career. Then to do it again, but it was a tired Briedis back then, they’re good wins.
“However he is not fought anyone like Chris. That is my opinion. He thinks he might need by boxing Jack Massey however he hasn’t.
“Chris is more of an aggressive fighter, more of an attacking fighter [than Briedis]. He fights in waves and throws ferocious combinations and changes the tempo up a lot so it’s not as easy to prepare for, we don’t believe.”
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