TalkingBoxing with CALVIN BROCK
Brock: "I will be a World Chapion this year!"
by
Garth Weaver
4/19 - Last week, I had a great discussion with IBF #14 ranked heavyweight contender
Calvin Brock, 24-0, as he discussed his upcoming Saturday night showdown on ESPN pay-per-view with IBF #5 Jameel McCline, 31-4. Coming off an impressive, third round knock out victory over contender Clifford Etienne, the Charlotte, North Carolina native found himself with an enormous opportunity and is in complete focus for his biggest fight to date. A win against McCline leads to a potential title shot, a chance Calvin believes he is destined to.
"They're still looking for the real Champion, I'm the person that's going to come up and clear it all up," Brock said. "So when it's asked around the world who's Heavyweight Champion, they are gonna say it's me, Calvin Brock."
Deemed to have a potentially great future by many boxing pundits, Brock gave intense replies to the state of the heavyweights and also gave his picks for some upcoming title bouts. It is no wonder that they call Brock, "The Banking Boxer" because he was all business during this interview.
CALVIN BROCK
Garth Weaver: Calvin, I want to thank you for taking the time to be
Talking Boxing with me and the fans...
Calvin Brock:Yeah, I mean it is a pleasure and it is
an honor to be talking with all the fans and Talking
Boxing...
Garth Weaver: I have to say that you have really been stepping it
up lately, is 2005 going to be your year?
Calvin Brock: 2005, I am going to be a World Champion this year.
Garth Weaver: You're going to be a World Champion this year?
Calvin Brock: World Champion this year...After I beat Jameel
McCline it's going to line me up for a World Title, I
mean who else am I supposed to face (Off) against? Who
else is bigger than me to prove myself against?
Garth Weaver: By the way I saw you in Houston when you fought
against Etienne, and that was a pretty dramatic
statement that you made right there...
Calvin Brock: What statement did I make?
Garth Weaver: A very strong one.
Calvin Brock: Oh, as far as how I won, the team made the
statement. Your going to see in this boxing match
right here that I am going to make another statement:
That I am the real heavyweight champion of the world!
Garth Weaver: I there anyone you have in mind in your line to the
title run?
Calvin Brock: No, it's however God blesses me and however he
directs my path, that's the way I'm going to take
it...You know, for a title I am going to have to win
first. I really don't know. All I know is, give me
time, and the whole world is gonna know I'm the real
Heavyweight Champion.
Garth Weaver: Awesome. Speaking of the Heavyweight Picture, how
do you see the overall Heavyweight picture?
Calvin Brock: Right now, people are oblivious to whose the
Heavyweight Champion, I mean, they don't even know.
They still thinking back to when Lennox Lewis was
Champion, Holyfield and Mike Tyson. People always
asking me who the Heavyweight Champion of the World
is, and I got a name for people, it's Calvin
Brock...They're still looking for the real Champion,
I'm the person that's going to come up and clear it
all up, so when it's asked around the world who's
Heavyweight Champion, they are gonna say it's me,
Calvin Brock.
Garth Weaver: Jameel McCline recently has been quoted in an
interview saying he is going to stop you when he
fights you..What is you're response to that? Do you
have anything you want to say to that?
Calvin Brock: Man, he ain't gonna stop nothing, man! I got more
knockouts than him, if anybody is going to get knocked
out it is going to be him...I mean he isn't good
enough to even hit me like that. That's talk, man.
Talk don't mean jack! It's all about what you can do.
HE isn't even regarded as a knockout artist. I'm
regarded as a killer knockout artist; Power Puncher,
not him...He's regarded as the one that's been coming
in the ring fighting scared, scared to get hit and
everything, kind of timid. Can't nobody say that about
me. I go in the ring and I bring the pain and take my
opponents out. He ain't me...He's him, and I'm me. My
train of history says that I don't lose. I'm 24 and 0,
20 knockouts. His history says that, first of all he
don't beat Olympians cause he didn't beat Klitschko
and he didn't beat Chris Byrd. He didn't beat world
class fighters, he didn't beat Klitschko who at the
time was considered world class. He didn't beat Chris
Byrd. I'm a world class fighter, going to be the
Heavyweight Champion of the world and he ain't going
to beat me. He's just talking, man. He's just trying
to build whatever confidence up and whatever
confidence he got is a false sense of confidence. The
truth is this: if anyones getting knocked out it is
going to be him.
Garth Weaver: What round can we Bank on you winning this fight?
Calvin Brock: Oh, I'm not even predicting a round, but I tell
you this: I am going to win it, and if anybody's going
get knocked out it's going to be him.
GW. Strong Words...Nice...Well lets take some of the
focus off the upcoming fight on the 23rd. What do you
see after McCline? Who do you see as a real good fight
for you to take?
Calvin Brock: Any of the world title holders. Any of those title
holders step in the ring with me, they will see that
title come and go, and the title is coming over to the
truth, and I'm the truth. The people of the world
deserve the truth, and I am going to give them the
truth: I am the real Heavyweight Champion of the
World, so it doesn't matter. I am taking all the
titles one by one. I really can't call nobody out
because there are a lot of Championships- All the
Heavyweights are defending their titles, besides Chris
Byrd at the end of this month and May or June. The
picture might change, so it's kind of hard to say,
we'll just have to wait and see...
Garth Weaver: Speaking of the picture changing, who do you like
out of the Toney-Ruiz fight?
Calvin Brock: Ok, well out of the Toney-Ruiz, I like Toney. Out
of Klitschko and Hasim Rahman, it's kind of hard to
call it, but I am going to lean towards Klitschko.
With Lamon Brewster and Andrew Golota it's a toss up,
I'm pretty much going to lean towards Lamon Brewster
because he is a little more consistent in his
performances and with Golota, you don't know which
Golota you're going to get. And Chris Byrd, he don't
have a championship lined up right now to defend his
title, I don't think.
Garth Weaver: So it looks that might be you sitting in that
seat..
Calvin Brock: Yeah, you know it could be me and Chris Byrd this
Summer, you never know....
Garth Weaver: Awesome...So 2005 is definitely going to be your
year to shine...
Calvin Brock: Yeah, I started the year up shining, before I
knocked out Etienne, I am going to shine on the 23rd
of this month, and I'm going to shine throughout the
rest of the year in becoming the Champion.
Garth Weaver: Awesome, well we look forward to seeing it.
Calvin Brock: Thank you.
There you have it folks! Strong words, from a strong
man! Just to remind you that Calvin Brock will be
looking to keep his Undefeated record intact against
Jameel McCline this Saturday, April 23rd, live on
ESPN's first Pay per View event! Tickets to the fight
are going fast, however you can get your own ringside
seat for under $30 by contacting your cable provider
now.
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