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� 2004 Nigeriaworld
EARLIER Jeremy Williams: �I�m the baddest mother@!*&%# period!�
Benny Henderson Jr.: Can you give us your thoughts on your upcoming opponent Samuel Peter?
Jeremy Williams: Samuel Peter is a big, tough, strong kid, but he is no way in my league. He is like twenty-four and zero with twenty knockouts but I don�t see anybody on his record that I couldn�t have beat or anyone on his record that wasn�t scared of him maybe outside of Marian Lewis. Everybody else he fought was sacred of him. I ain�t sacred of him or any other mother@!*&%#, it doesn�t matter to me. I have been hit, I have been knocked out and cut and hurt, I have been in every situation. Now it is about winning a championship and this guy is definitely not going to derail me from my goal.
BH: Samuel is the new guy knocking everybody out that gets in his way, but really hasn�t seemed to be tested in his young career. You on the other hand have fought for several years with a tremendous amount of experience do you feel that your experience will play the major role in this bout?
JW: Well heck yeah. Of course, why not, why wouldn�t it? You know I�m going to use everything that I have to beat this guy. My experiences in the ring, my experiences in life, everyone that Samuel Peters fought has been scared of him. Me, I don�t think much about him. I know he is big and strong but we are all big and strong. He can punch and I can punch so what�s the difference? Now it is about who is smarter and faster and that�s me ten times out of ten. Ain�t no way in the world that I am going in there to let Samuel Peter beat me. Just like when I fought here was another guy thirty and zero or whatever it was with twenty-seven knockouts. He couldn�t lay a hand on me. Another guy just like Samuel Peter a young kid coming up twenty-five and zero with twenty knockouts and he couldn�t hang in the ring with me. So what makes Sam any different than another other guy I fought? What makes him any different from when I fought Bert Cooper or Jessie Ferguson or any of these big strong tough guys that I have fought? I beat them, I beat Ferguson with my mind and then I physically destroyed him. I�m a much better fighter now than I have ever been.
BH: Do you feel that you are being overlooked or being used as a stepping stone by Sam and his team with them wanting to fight you when Sam�s experience is limited compared to yours, or do you feel they may see something in you that they feel like they can capitalize on?
JW: Or maybe they are just trying to cash out this guy because they know they don�t have anything. What about that one maybe? That guy can�t beat me, everybody in boxing knows that he can�t beat me. I am one of those guys who isn�t scared of anything, I�m not scared of him or anybody out there you understand.
BH: What will be your fight strategy?
JW: Anything that he wants to do I will beat him at, if he wants to bang it out, let�s go; if he wants to box it out, let�s do it. Anything, we can fight in a football field or phone booth because at the end of the day I am going to win.
BH: Looking back on your twelve years as a professional boxer, give us some of your most memorable moments?
JW: When I knocked that guy out in eight seconds on Tuesday Night Fights that was pretty cool, I don�t have defining moments as of yet. I am not too worried about what I used to do, I am set on what I am going to do.
BH: Do you feel you ever reached you highest potential as a fighter or is there more out there maybe not to prove but accomplish?
JW: I�m going to become heavyweight champion of the world and fight a few more times and do something nobody else has never done, I am going to offer my fights to the world and then I am done.
BH: Samuel Peter told me that he was going to eat you alive, do you want to respond to that?
JW: Well he might want to eat me alive but I�m not gay, my wife does that.
BH: What does the future hold for Jeremy Williams?
JW: To be heavyweight champion of the world man, I�m the baddest mother@!*&%# on this planet, period!
BH: Is there anything you would like to add to this interview?
JW: On December 4th I�m going to set the world on check. The heavyweight division is a farce at this point. These guys who are fighting aren�t good and somebody needs to step up, an American guy and take leave. These guys like Chris, John or Lamon hasn�t stepped up and said that I am the premier heavyweight in the world. And people doesn�t have oodles and oodles of faith in Klitschko, who is built like a basketball player who is like 6�9� or whatever, that is just ridiculous to have a 6�9� boxer. And like the rest of these guys I just mentioned, they need to step up and if they won�t, then I will. And if they do then I will anyway, it doesn�t matter.
I would like to thank Jeremy for his time and thoughts on his career. It was entertaining. |
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