The
always-exciting Edwin Valero will defend his World Boxing Council (WBC)
lightweight title against undefeated, once-beaten WBC 135-pound interim
titleholder Antonio DeMarco in the main event this Saturday, Feb. 6, on
SHOWTIME Championship Boxing on SHOWTIME (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the
west coast). The undefeated knockout artist and two-time world champion
Valero (26-0, 26 KOs), of Merida, Venezuela will be making the second
defense of his WBC title against Tijuana’s DeMarco (23-1-1, 17 KOs),
the WBC interim champion at the Arena Monterrey located in Mexico.
EDWIN VALERO
"I’m looking forward to Saturday night with great anticipation. It’s
going to be a great fight. I am very focused and have put in my work by
training extremely hard as I do in all of my fights.”
"I have sacrificed a lot by being out of my country and away from my
family for so long. Because I have made the sacrifice to be away from
them I have nothing more to do than to dedicate myself to my training
100 percent. I give myself completely to my training because I want to
make sure that my sacrifice was worth the while.”
"I am positive that I am in a key moment of my career. I want to be a
solid champion and continue to rise. I know it won’t be easy and I have
to be cautious because the opponents are tough.”
"There was one time that I was overly confident and felt that a fight
against my opponent would be easy. I found out only when I was in the
ring just how difficult he was. But, that won’t happen again in my
career because I learned my lesson not to take anyone lightly.”
"I know that Antonio DeMarco is a fighter to be reckoned with and I’m prepared. I’m going to give it my all.”
ANTONIO DEMARCO
"I want to thank God, Gary Shaw, my team and family for their support.
Specifically I would like to thank my trainer Romulo, who to me, I
value more than gold.”
"I give a sincere thank you to the people of Monterrey, Mexico and to
Mauricio Sulaiman. I want to assure them that I am going to work hard
on Saturday. Everything will be OK in the end. I know what I need to be
prepared for because I am facing a great champion.
"I feel privileged to be able to take on the best champion. I want to
give Valero, his team and his promoter all the thanks in the world for
accepting this challenge.”
"I put 100 percent of myself into my training.”
"All of my fights are different in their own right but one thing
remains consistent with me, I like to hit and I don’t mind taking the
punches. It’s part of the sport. It’s boxing.”
"My height should give me some advantage in winning the fight, but the
true story about what happens in Saturday’s fight will be told in the
ring.”
"I don’t like to think beyond Saturday. I am only focused on my fight against the great champion Edwin Valero.”
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