This past week’s edition of On the Ropes featured two exclusive interviews. Highlighting this episode was the very nice chat with WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto. Here are some excerpts from that interview:
On preparations for his upcoming fight with Sugar Shane Mosley:
“The preparations have been going great, everything is right on time. We’ve been putting in extremely hard work and anybody who has ever been in our camp they know we are very extreme. We’re putting in all the work that we need to put in, and I’m excited, I’m confident, and everything is falling into place.”
On Sugar Shane Mosley and the possibility of him suffering from ring rust:
“Maybe, but Shane’s the type of guy he always stays in shape. He’s been out of the ring for nearly a year, but he’s done all of this stuff before, so I believe he’ll get in a rhythm pretty quickly, but we’ll see.”
Regarding what about Mosley’s style most concerns him:
“I’ve been watching Mosley for awhile, actually all through the amateurs. He’s a quick guy, he has fast reaction time, and point blank he can just fight. There isn’t anything about his style that worries me to a point.”
Regarding his controversial win over Luis Collazo”
“It definitely made me a better fighter, and I think I was able to just learn from the fight.”
On his and Shane Mosley’s other common opponent, David Estrada:
“I fought another guy like David Estrada, the same guy that Shane Mosley fought, and it was a tough fight for Shane but I got David Estrada out of there. I guess styles make fights.”
On his fight with Estrada:
“I believe that was my first really big test in a fight. It tested my conditioning, it tested me mentally, and everywhere around the board.”
On the possibility of becoming Manny Pacquiao’s primary sparring partner for his fight with Floyd Mayweather Junior:
“I just heard about that, actually. Somebody from my team actually get a call from Freddie Roach’s people. We didn’t get a chance to speak with them yet. It’s flattering, but at the same time, my whole team is fully focused on our fight with Shane Mosley and a win against Mosley can put me right there in contention to fight one of those guys, so we don’t know what we’re going to do when it comes to that whole situation. Me and Manny are really good friends, but all of my focus is on the fight January 30 right now.”
On his long term goals in boxing:
“I just want to basically stay undefeated, because right now I’m in a star-studded division. I’m blessed to be in this position. I want to continue to work hard, and stay undefeated and continue to improve myself.”
On the upcoming mega bout between Mayweather and Pacquiao:
“It’s kind of up in the air for me now, because Manny Pacquiao is so awkward and so relentless and I think that’s something that Floyd has never faced before and in the past, it looks like Floyd has probably had a little trouble when it comes to southpaws. So I believe Manny will definitely give him a hard time, but then again, Floyd is such a technician who is so smart in there and when I watch Manny Pacquiao fighting Cotto I see within the first round that Cotto was able to control him with the jab, and I just see that little bit, and I can see Mayweather throwing a jab like that all night.”
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