Steven Cairns has ‘best ever’ aspirations.
The Cork prospect plans to stay as much as his ‘Irish Takeover’ ring moniker and attain a degree the place he’s deemed Eire’s best boxer.
“I need to take over. I need to take over battle by battle. I need to convey all of Eire collectively. I need to present different Irish boxers, the youthful generator that it may be accomplished. I need to be the perfect boxer to ever come out of Eire. That’s my plan,” the fancied Queensberry prospect stated.
The well-traveled 22-year-old will look to take the following step alongside the highway to the highest when he fights over six rounds in York Corridor tonight [Friday, September 6].
The Insurgent County man takes on Ezequiel Gregores in his ninth professional battle, a sturdy Argentine who he’d be anticipated to beat however one he predicts he’ll cease.
“You’ll be able to anticipate a excessive boxing IQ together with some heavy palms. When two of them combine I feel it’s knockout, that’s what you’ll be able to anticipate.”
Cairns confirmed Irish followers simply what the hype is about final day out.
Combating for the primary time in Eire the Cork fighter had Jonatas Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira gone in lower than 60 seconds.
The Marajoara Monster got here to Belfast with a status for being extraordinarily powerful, having examined prospects throughout Britain since relocating to Europe from Brazil.
Certainly, he gave Olympian Kurt Walker an actual exercise in Galway final yr, albeit down the scales.
He was meant to offer the ‘Irish Takeover’ rounds on the very least, though it didn’t play out that approach.
“Final day out huge present stay on television and it lasted a few seconds however he wasn’t loading up. He was simply following directions and did what we do and he removed somebody who isn’t very straightforward to do away with,” coach Dave Coldwell stated.
The British coach wouldn’t thoughts one other stoppage on TNT tonight however hopes it doesn’t come too early. Coldwell desires the previous underage Irish beginner standout to financial institution rounds and present the battle fraternity his full array of expertise.
“So Ideally for me he will get the stoppage 5 and half rounds he will get the stoppage,” he provides earlier than discussing Cairns’s development.
“The factor that has impressed me most over the past 18 months is the event of his IQ. He can punch, he’s all the time been capable of punch when he got here to me as an 18-year-old child he may punch, but it surely’s a refinement. Now he has setups, intelligence, punch-picking and maturity. He’s solely a younger child, so I’m not in a rush with him. I need him to develop, absorb the massive battle expertise.”
