Monday, November 03, 2008

Maccarineli looks to regain Title

Enzo Maccarinelli aims to reclaim his WBO World Cruiserweight title when he challenges undefeated American Johnathon Banks for the vacant title on Saturday 6 December at the ExCeL London. Big Mac joins Nicky Cook, who makes the first defence of his WBO World Super-Featherweight, and Amir Khan's comeback against Irishman Oisin Fagan on Frank Warren's end-of-year extravaganza. The Swansea banger is raring to go after nine months out of the ring since he lost his crown to David Haye and believes he will be better than ever. "I'm delighted to get the opportunity to fight for my old title in my first fight back and I thank my promoter Frank Warren for giving me this golden opportunity," Said Maccarinelli. "It's been a while since my fight with Haye and I'm not going to dwell on it, what happened happened and it's in the past," "Since the fight I've just had my head down and been putting the hours in the gym correcting what I did wrong and I believe that I'm better than before. I've got to prove a lot of people wrong." "This is the future and my chance to win my title back and get my career back on track. Detroit slugger Banks is unbeaten in 20 fights with 14 knockouts - nine inside the first round -and is trained by American great Emanuel Steward, but this doesn't worry Maccarinelli.He added, "It's very apt that his name is Banks because I'm going to do a real job on him," "He's got an good record with plenty of knockouts and I can bang also so I reckon it's going to be a real tear up on the night," "I'm certainly not underestimating him and he probably thinks the same about me after the Haye fight, but after seeing his last fight against Vincenzo Rossitto I'm confident that I can beat this guy," "It's great to go up against one of Emanuel Steward's boxers and it will be mean more to beat him because Steward is a master tactician and I will have beaten him also," "For me, this is more about what I can do not what he can do. I've got to get back in there and prove to people that I am a champion and I will do that."

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