LAWRENCE OKOLIE has been impressed with certainly one of his new promotional stable-mates in current months.
The previous WBO cruiserweight and WBC bridgerweight champion debuts at heavyweight tomorrow evening in Birmingham towards Hussein Muhamed, 18-1 (14 KOs). This 12 months there have been plenty of firsts for Okolie, 20-1 (15 KOs). Signing with Queensberry, becoming a member of Joe Gallagher’s fitness center and transferring to heavyweight the place he hopes to win a 3rd world title.
Amongst the variety of fights at heavyweight, notably in Riyadh, the present IBF champion Daniel Dubois has caught the attention of Okolie. The 31-year-old spoke to Boxing Information yesterday in regards to the man who’s now certainly one of his new rivals.
“If you happen to take a look at his run of type it’s been ‘Large Child’ Miller, Hrgovic [and] Anthony Joshua. These are three high quality heavyweights that he’s been in there with, crushed and slugged it out and stopped two of them. He’s on an important run of type.”
Sooner or later Okolie, already sitting at fifth within the WBC heavyweight rankings, may face Dubois if one or each have a world title up for grabs. The IBF title holder might be subsequent out on February 22 in Riyadh defending his belt towards Joseph Parker.
“That’s an important struggle,” Okolie mentioned.
“It’s a dangerous struggle for Dan’. We’ve seen Parker in there with Zhang, we’ve seen him in there with Wilder who’re two huge punchers. And he’s been in a position to negate them and get factors choices over each of them. It’s a troublesome one.
“If Dan’ does get on prime of him and overwhelms him with energy punching he may get a stoppage. But when he’s not cautious the rounds may slip away and Parker may win a call. Nonetheless, Parker has gained a number of measurement over the previous couple of months so I don’t know if that’s going to sluggish him down after which he’ll be within the pocket an excessive amount of. We have now to attend and see.”
