Eric Molina has confidently predicted that he’ll turn into the primary man to defeat fast-rising Croatian Heavyweight contender Alen Babic after they collide in a scheduled eight-round contest on the undercard of Chantelle Cameron vs. Mary McGee at The O2 in London this Saturday October 30, live worldwide on DAZN.
‘Drummer Boy’ (28-7, 20 KOs) gave Fabio Wardley the hardest check of his profession on the Europa Level Sports activities Advanced in Gibraltar earlier this 12 months and heads into his conflict with Babic on the again of a third-round knockout win over Alejandro de la Torre in August.
The 2-time World Title challenger from Texas, USA has shared the ring with a who’s who within the Heavyweight division, together with losses to Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder, and insists that he isn’t intimidated within the slightest by ‘The Savage’s’ threats and warnings.
“It’s actually not straightforward to journey so far as we do at brief discover, however I firmly consider that I’ve what it takes to knock this man out on Saturday,” mentioned Molina. “I have a look at him as a reckless fighter. I have a look at him as someone that has no respect for the Heavyweight division. This Heavyweight division has a really brutal method of humbling fighters at completely different instances.
“It’s a troublesome lesson that plenty of fighters must be taught. I’ve learnt it, Anthony Joshua has learnt it, Deontay Wilder has learnt it, one of the best of one of the best have learnt it. Babic goes to must be taught that at some point to respect this division.
“He may throw 100 punches in a single spherical. He’s going to wish to throw 100 punches to get me out of there in a single spherical. I’ve simply bought to thrown one punch. One punch and I’ll devastatingly knock him out. No matter he thinks in his thoughts is as much as him, I simply deal with my power and my brief camp. I do know precisely that I’ve bought to do.
“I’m not right here to speak and I’m not right here to show something. My resume speaks for itself. I’ve been in with one of the best. This man doesn’t intimidate me. I don’t lose any sleep about this battle in any respect. We’re engaged on a particular method to actually knock this man out. I believe he offers me each alternative to do this.
“I would like him to be as assured as potential. I would like him to be as cocky as potential. I don’t even wish to warn him with what I’m coming with. It’s pointless. I’ve been that man within the division. I would like him to really feel it on Saturday, after which I would like him to grasp. He has by no means been hit by someone like me. He’s going to get hit actually exhausting on Saturday. We’re going to see what he’s actually bought.”
Babic vs. Molina is a part of an enormous evening of motion Greenwich, Chantelle Cameron’s (14-0, 8 KOs) WBC, IBF and Ring Journal Tremendous-Light-weight Unification conflict with the USA’s Mary McGee (27-3, 15 KOs) tops the invoice, Craig Richards (16-2-1, 9 KOs) returns to the ring towards Poland’s Marek Matyja (20-2-2, 9 KOs) after pushing WBA Gentle-Heavyweight World Champion Dmitry Bivol all the best way in Could, Youssef Khoumari (13-0-1, 5 KOs) takes on Jorge David Castaneda (14-1, 11 KOs) for the vacant WBC Worldwide Silver Tremendous-Featherweight Title, ‘The Romford Bull’ Johnny Fisher (3-0, 3 KOs) faces Spain’s Alvaro Terrero (5-13-2, 3 KOs) in entrance of over 1,000 of his followers, Catford Tremendous-Bantamweight Ellie Scotney (2-0) squares off towards Eva Cantos (2-1) in her first battle with new coach Shane McGuigan, Manchester Cruiserweight Jordan Thompson (10-0, 8 KOs) makes his Matchroom debut towards Poland’s Piotr Podlucki (6-5, 2 KOs), Takeley Gentle-Heavyweight prospect John Hedges (3-0) meets Ben Thomas (2-7-3, 1 KO) over 4 rounds and Dublin Heavyweight Thomas Carty (1-0) has his second skilled battle.
