Prograis, of course, is no stranger to wars. His 2019 battle with Josh Taylor was one of the best of that year, too, and asked about recent comments regarding ‘Tom and Jerry boxing’, Prograis smiles: “I’m nowhere close to that. You know, Turki [Alalshikh], he’ll see I go in there and I fight. I think we’re moving past the era, the Floyd Mayweather era, where it was [all about being] undefeated. You know, he was undefeated. He kept the ‘0’ and he kept the ‘0’ no matter what happens; he’ll keep that if he makes it boring. But I think that we’re kind of past that right now. I think people want to have exciting fights. I mean, you don’t want to take it [the physical strain of a hard fight]. You don’t want to go out there and take crazy damage and stuff. But at the same time, it is boxing. You’re going to get hit and I think that people want us to have exciting fights. It gets the people talking.”
