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Barely two years ago, Moloney had quit in a rage, claiming corruption after a controversial Perth loss to another Mexican, Pedro Guevara, for the WBC interim super flyweight.<\/p>\n
The former Commonwealth Games champion and former holder of the WBA’s super flyweight strap cooled down, though, and won twice to earn another shot, 12 years after making his professional debut.<\/p>\n
To get it, he’s turned down a step-aside offer of around $US250,000 from Garcia’s camp, who tried everything to avoid fulfilling their obligations against the mandatory challenger.<\/p>\n
And he was only granted mandatory status after wasting a month training for a world title eliminator fight in Mexico last year against Argi Cortes, which never happened.<\/p>\n
Organisers twice shifted the date of the bout after he’d arrived, the second time attempting to relocate the fight to Cortes’s home town of Mexico City on just five days’ notice.<\/p>\n
Fed up, Moloney withdrew and flew home, knowing he may have torn up his own title hopes.<\/p>\n
But the IBF sided with the Australian, and he’ll earn about a fifth of that step-aside offer to instead get the chance to hold up a belt he has worked his life for.<\/p>\n
“It’s been a long, hard road to get here, but I’m glad I stayed persistent and had this relentless drive to get this world title back,” he said.<\/p>\n
“There’s been lots. In this camp alone, let alone the last 20-odd years.<\/p>\n
“Tomorrow night it will all pay off.”<\/p>\n
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