“When he signed with us as an amateur, he said he wanted to be the youngest ever world champion. That was his ambition, and I think that, like all young fighters, when you’re young, you all want to do the best, be the best, and obviously, once he turned pro, you see what a steady road and how difficult that can be. But when I told him this happened, he was over the moon. It was like he’d resigned himself to… he wasn’t going to be the youngest champion because he’d passed the age that Mike Tyson had won the title at, but he was so thrilled. I mean, unbelievably thrilled. For him, this was the cherry on the cake. He wanted to fight, he wanted to fight Hrgovic, and having the IBF title on the line has made it even spicier, and more of a challenge.”
