Phil D. Jay
WBN Editor
WBN Editor
Challenger confident ahead of grudge match
British and Commonwealth light-heavyweight champion Tony
Bellew is not mincing his words ahead his defining world title challenge against
WBC champion Nathan Cleverly on home soil this Saturday night.
The 28 year-old, who is unbeaten in sixteen bouts with ten
knockouts, is looking forward to settling the score with the Welshman once and
for all and has vowed to dethrone the mathematics graduate, before offering him
alternative employment.
“Come Saturday night, I will look at him, tell him I am
going to smash his face in and then go and do it,” Bellew told The Daily Mail.
“He is going to be retired on Sunday and after the fight I
will shake his hand.
“I will ask him if he wants to put his maths to use and
become my accountant.”
The brash Scouser claimed the Commonwealth title in March
last year with a spectacular first round stoppage win over the Ghanaian Atoli
Moore and has since defended it three times, picking up the British title along
the way.
Cleverly, 24, has been in Bellew’s sights for the last
couple of years and the distain the two men feel for each other can be felt in
the air when the two fighters share a room.
Saturday night promises to be an explosive battle and is
backed up by James DeGale’s European super-middleweight title challenge against
belt holder Piotr Wilczewski, whilst local fighter Rocky Fielding goes for his
ninth victory.
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