Australia\u2019s most avoided fighter issues big warning<\/a><\/p>\nCallum PetersSource: News Corp AustraliaCallum Peters in action against William Lenehan in Newcastle in April.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
And as for his experience being a factor against a rival who, despite boasting a Commonwealth Games silver medal, and 2024 Olympic campaign, has never gone past the first round in three pro appearances?<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, 100 per cent,\u201d Heywood stressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course it does.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd anyone who (thinks otherwise) doesn\u2019t know s*** about boxing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s young, he\u2019s hungry, but I\u2019ve seen it all.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019ll see what he throws at me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Heywood weighed in at 76.1kg, with Peters slightly lighter at 75.5kg.<\/p>\n
Speaking with Fox Sports Australia before his most recent win over Luca Lanigan in Cairns last month \u2013 fighting on the undercard of Australian favourite Liam Paro \u2013 Rose suggested Peters could be fighting for a world title within the next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat Callum Peters is doing, it\u2019s unprecedented,\u201d Rose declared.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis kid is such a special talent.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m honestly talking about someone who we\u2019ve never seen anything like before.<\/p>\n
\u201cA fighter who could win a world title in 18 months.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe 12 months.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just fights so differently to anyone else in his division.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked on stage after Tuesday\u2019s weigh-ins what was coming, the youngster grinned: \u201cOh yeah, the full 50 Cal \u2026 boom, boom, boom\u201d.<\/p>\n
Peters also stressed, however, that Heywood represented the toughest test of his brief professional career.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know Marcus is going to put a really good fight on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to bring a war.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s fought some good boys, has credentials, so he can put me on the map in the pro boxing scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will go more than one round.\u201d<\/p>\n
But as for Peters still earning his fourth straight finish?<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, I\u2019ll try,\u201d he grinned. \u201cBut we have to see what the game plan is going to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to hit hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cHit strong.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut (a finish) is the mission\u201d<\/p>\n
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Elsewhere on the scales, Masson weighed in at 90.4kg, with Parker 89.5kg.<\/p>\n
Having already won a national belt and regional titles, Parker said he was now readying to use Wednesday\u2019s fight \u2013 for the IBF Pan Pacific strap \u2013 to catapult him into the division\u2019s top 10.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a huge opportunity,\u201d Parker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMassive respect to Floyd and his team but I\u2019ve only just started collecting straps.<\/p>\n
\u201cStarting with the New Zealand belt, then the WBA \u2026 so I\u2019m addicted to this and I\u2019m after that IBF belt and Floyd is in my way.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I have to take care of business tomorrow.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis fight means everything to me.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the biggest fight of my career.\u201d<\/p>\n
Masson, meanwhile, said he was ready to chase down another world title in what is a \u201cmust win\u201d showdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to win from now on,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to win another world title and if you lose these types of fights, those world title shots ain\u2019t gunna come.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo this is a must win and we\u2019re ready to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure I\u2019m going to make a statement on Wednesday night.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked for a prediction, Masson replied: \u201cWar \u2026 clinic\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian boxing sensation Callum Peters has been warned a lack of professional experience \u2014 which so far tallies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,689,27655,27663,802,27651,72,2790,27649,2057,27659,27654,18664,11862,27660,27666,27662,27657,11850,27661,27652,673,1736,10668,2782,3583,677,9207,27665,9213,701,2784,85,27658,670,5942,3586,27653,27656,2836,27650,27664],"class_list":["post-29105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-boxing-sensation","tag-australian-favourite","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-scene","tag-cairns","tag-cody-kaye","tag-cruiserweight-headliner","tag-europe","tag-fight-means","tag-floyd-masson","tag-game-plan","tag-george-rose","tag-hyped-fighter","tag-iba-world-championships","tag-jeff-fenech","tag-john-parker","tag-michael-zerafa","tag-middleweight-title","tag-must-win","tag-new-south-wales","tag-new-zealand","tag-newcastle","tag-nick-walshaw","tag-northern-europe","tag-oceania","tag-professional-career","tag-professional-experience","tag-professional-fight","tag-queensland","tag-sebastian-fundora","tag-sports","tag-started-collecting-straps","tag-sydney","tag-tim-tszyu","tag-united-kingdom","tag-weigh-in-warning","tag-william-lenehan","tag-world-title","tag-world-title-eliminator","tag-world-title-shots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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