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波特(26-2-1, 16 KO’s)，下一战是4月22日在巴莱克中心迎战贝托(31-4, 23 KO’s)，胜者有望面对WBC次中量级冠军瑟曼（28-0，22 KO）。
波特说；与贝托的比赛谈下来很不容易，这是一场挑战WBC冠军的资格赛。输给瑟曼让我很痛苦，但它不会自己回来。现在贝托就是我的机会，我要再次拿到冠军头衔，这对我很重要。
The fight has been sanctioned as a World Boxing Council welterweight title eliminator and Porter feels that factor will raise the stakes a little for those interested in the fight. The winner will be in line for a crack at Thurman. The match with Berto has been discussed for some time, with Porter being very eager to get him in the ring. “I was told it was going to be in October,” Porter told BoxingScene.com. “So it has worked out and this is for a WBC title eliminator. Maybe for the public things have changed, maybe they’ll tune in more because there is more at stake but for me this was already a real fight, it was everything it can be. It makes it more exciting.” Porter was not available to talk in the immediate aftermath of his loss to Thurman, but he maintains that losing and the possibility to secure the opportunity to avenge his last defeat - and gain another world title shot at the same time - has given him an abundance of motivation heading into the next fight. “It was a tough pill to swallow,” Porter said of losing to Thurman. “I did everything I could do to win that fight. It hurt a little, but all you can do is work harder so that heartache and pain doesn’t come back and you come back and win. Now we got Andre Berto and we got the WBC title coming up soon. Every fighter wants to be a world champion. This one in particular is important being a part of the WBC lineage is important to me.” - |
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2023-10-18 05:50:24
