Hey paulinthailand, i don't disagree with anything you have said mate, but as Alex has just stated, my losses to Dean was at 55kgs and fair enough, never complained about it just one of those things and cuts me deep to say it but lost to a better man on the day. I'm moving down to 53.5kgs for the wbc fight as been making 55 too easy recently and been coming in 54 without really trying so hard so why not drop down again. I'm 35 years old and i know myself past my best, but i have served my time and never ducked anybody, and fought the best there is at my weight and above from everywhere in the world. I basically was offered the shot by another promoter and was obviously chuffed to bits and wanted it, that show fell through and Alex and the Smash team swooped in to save the day. As stated if i do win there will be mandatory defenses and i will defend against anybody i don't care.

This fight will be amazing, known both guy's a long long time and have trained with Paulo quite a bit in the past, and known Dan since he was literally a small boy, will be interesting to see as Dan has slick skills in every aspect of the sport, and he has been dropped in the past a couple of times in Thailand but got up and shown a massive heart and come back to win from it before,those counts did come against quite young Thai's though and Paulo really does pack one hell of a punch and will be interesting to see what it will be like if he can land one of those bombs and how Dan deals with getting clocked by a man. Either way this is going to be a great fight and i wish both lads all the very best of luck, its good to see 1 vs 2 defending there place in the uk rankings, used to happen all the time back in the day but has slowed down a lot now due to all the mickey mouse title's appearing each week.