And just on you, how's life, really? No one's really heard from you in the last two, three months.

Yeah, you know, when I go quiet, I'm busy working, you know.

I'm in the gym grinding, you know, as normal, waiting for the next time to show what I can do.

So I've had a nice bit of downtime.

I've been out to the States to watch my old stable mate Abbas Baral fight and yeah just been ticking away working on you know refining and perfecting the craft and you know it was a great fight last time out you know only kind of watched it back three weeks ago or so and I like to leave it some time to disconnect from you know the fight how the fight felt and watch you know from an outsider and It's a very, very fan-friendly occasion.

And, you know, a lot I can take away from it, positives, and a lot I can also, you know, work on to solidify myself on the world stage.

But it was a great fight up at world level against a really serious contender.

You was always a big 140 pounder though, Harlem.

So you're mixing real fringe world-class now.

Yeah, this is the type of fight, you know, that, that we wanted because it's a fight where, um, you know, he has his respect, but Paro is- he's proven, you know, at world level with that type of performance.

And, you know, he's, uh, experienced.

He's, you know, however many hundreds of kickboxing fights before boxing even.

And, um, yeah, you know, he has a, a very solid resume, and this is the fight now that will take us onto a world title fight and throw us up there with the best fighters in the world.

So are you talking about Liam Par- Paro being your target audience? Is that where you're heading towards? Because Haney and Garcia are very, very good fighters.

They're good fighters, but I believe, you know, on my day, I, I think I can beat any fighter in the world, um, you know, when I, when I bring the best version of myself.

You know, I have a lot of belief that I can go in there and, and cause any of the, the top fighters in the world problems.

Is the Katel fight completely out your system now?

Yeah, I mean, it was, it was out my system very soon after, you know? Not...

It was one of them fights where not much took place really.

Um, you know, and, and me going in there as a, an underdog, you know, as someone that hadn't previously fought at that level, you have to come away and, and, and look at the successes.

Um, you, you, you see what kind of run he's on, uh, he's on now and, you know, I, I feel like I had a lot of success in that fight, got cut short and, you know, the decision didn't go, go my way, and these things can happen.

You just gotta, gotta take it as experience and use it, uh, as you go into fights, you know, as you go into high-level fights that you can wield that experience.

And this fight here, you know, I believe will be the, the toughest fight I've had.

Well, can you give me some context around that? Were you approached about that situation in case Prograis couldn't fight?

Did you feel like when you were calling for a rematch, you were sort of fighting a losing battle?

I only called for a rematch.

At the time, I didn't know what was happening.

It was stopped because of his cut.

I didn't know the fighters that they've placed to judge the fight had it even at that stage.

To be honest, I didn't know at what stage and what round it doesn't become a technical draw.

As I say, in the fight, I felt like I was coming on stronger.

I suppose ultimately when you go to bed at night, do you sometimes think like, I could have played this differently? And I'm not saying you wish you did or you wish you had, but you could have taken a very different path.

Do you assess him as a negative fighter or do you appreciate his skill set? Yeah, I

don't know why they done that promo.

I've no idea because, you know, The guy, you know, he's an upright guy.

I don't know why they're trying to brand him as so boring, but the promo didn't help.

But listen, it's about going in there and winning and coming out victorious.

His style, you know, it's here nor there in terms of, you know, my objective is to go in there and beat the man by any means possible.

how his style looks to kind of boxing fans or whatever is pretty irrelevant to me.

streets are paved with gold.