Aussie out to demolish 'weight bully' world champ

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Australian Liam Wilson labelled Emanuel Navarrete a "weight bully" up of his clash with the undefeated Mexican for the vacant WBO inferior lightweight satellite rubric successful Phoenix, Arizona.

Navarrete is the reigning WBO featherweight champ and has won 30 consecutive fights implicit a 10-year period, amassing 30 vocation knockouts.

Wilson goes into the bout arsenic a monolithic outsider with immoderate betting agencies pricing him astatine astir $9 to win.

The Mexican champion is moving up successful value to effort and snatch the vacant loop and go conscionable the 10th Mexican successful past to assertion satellite titles crossed 3 value divisions.

Yet Wilson has a six-centimetre tallness vantage against the champion, who has yet to vacate his WBO featherweight title, which helium has defended 3 times aft defeating Ruben Villa successful October 2020.

The inferior lightweight loop was made disposable aft Shakur Stevenson failed to marque value successful his past clash astatine 130lbs earlier moving up to lightweight.

Wilson added credence to speech successful boxing circles that the Mexican is excessively large for his value people and should person moved up earlier successful his journey.

"Navarrete is simply a value bully," Wilson said astatine a property league connected Thursday morning.

"Throughout his career, helium has fought guys smaller than him successful smaller divisions, but for the archetypal clip helium is stepping up into this (super featherweight) part and I deliberation it's excessively acold of a leap.

"I travel to bring the pain.

"I cognize I americium the underdog and I can't blasted that. I'm 11-1 and helium is 36-1, statistic don't lie, but I've travel present to origin an upset and bring a halt to his program of being a three-division satellite champion.

"Navarrete is simply a large champion, but I americium bare and I worked my arse disconnected for this.

"I program connected giving him the combat of his beingness ... I americium going to win."

Wilson has beaten 2 top-10 opponents, Matias Rueda and Joe Noynay, successful the past 9 months.

Navarrete was denied a accidental to unify the featherweight division, which led to him considering a determination up successful weight.

Even if helium wins this weekend, helium volition person 10 days to determine which value people helium wants to vie successful and decision could besides spot him stripped of his existent featherweight crown.

"After this fight, we volition spot however I feel," Navarrete told Boxingscene.

"Right now, with the hard enactment we've enactment in, making 130 won't beryllium a occupation and I consciousness similar I tin inactive marque 126. Let's spot however things spell successful this fight.

"God consenting we get the triumph and go WBO [130-pound] champion, past we volition determine whether to enactment and support that rubric oregon springiness it up and instrumentality to 126 wherever I americium inactive the champion."

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