“I have only so many fights left on my contract, and I’m here to show and prove that I’m ready to get that title shot again and make good on it.”
To put himself back on that upward trajectory in the division, he plans on defending his ranking from Page, by showing him, and the viewing public, that fighting at middleweight is a different ball game to what he’s used to experiencing at welterweight.
But, as far as Cannonier is concerned, the weight class is irrelevant. He just thinks he’s the better fighter.
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“The dogs are bigger up here. They bite harder,” said Cannonier.
“We know how smaller dogs like to yap, yap, yap, and stuff like that. I personally don’t do much of that. You know, there are some yappers up here, but I don’t do none of that yapping.
“I don’t want to build it up and build up the fact that he’s coming up to middleweight, and that’s why he’s going to lose. He’s going to lose because he’s going up against me.”
