Martin Murray has provided a telling glimpse into the team ethic at Jamie Moore’s gym as Rocky Fielding begins preparations to fight Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez on December 15.
He’s a whopping great outsider/underdog and he doesn’t care one bit. British warrior Rocky Fielding is as confident as he is excited going into his surprise shot at Mexican star and current pound-for-pounder Canelo Alvarez.
Canelo Alvarez (50-1-2, 34 KOs), the universally recognized middleweight champion of the world and the veritable face of boxing, will make his New York City debut as he faces WBA Super Middleweight World Champion Rocky Fielding (27-1, 15 KOs) in a special 12-round super middleweight attraction on Saturday, Dec.
You might call it a ‘Real Rocky’ moment if you want, and indeed, British warrior Rocky Fielding was perhaps as surprised as the fictitious movie brawler was when he got news of his massive, potentially life changing opportunity.
Saul Alvarez has decided to skip making a voluntary defense of his WBC middleweight title and instead move up to 168 to challenge WBA World super middleweight champion Rocky Fielding for his title on December 15 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Rocky Fielding (27-1, 15 KOs) had too much power and too high of a work rate for WBA super middleweight champion (22-1-1, 12 KOs) in stopping him in the 5th round on Saturday night Baden-Arena in Offenburg, Germany.
Will the December rematch between bitter rivals Tony Bellew and David Haye prove to be a hit, at both the live gate and on pay-per-view?
Callum Smith looked sensational as he astounded a packed Liverpool Echo Arena tonight with a murderous one round demolition of city rival Rocky Fielding.
photo by Lawrence Lustig – Callum Smith, 17-0 (12KO’s), and Rocky Fielding, 21-0 (12KO’s), will meet on Saturday in their eagerly anticipated clash for the vacant British super-middleweight title in Liverpool’s Echo Arena.
Next month in Liverpool, unbeaten local super middleweight rivals Callum Smith (17-0, 12ko) and Rocky Fielding (21-0, 12ko), contest the (vacant) British 168 lb title in a fight for city bragging rights and the opportunity to move on to bigger and better things, yet their respective trainers have started a war of words reflective of what’s at stake, with shots publicly fired back and forth between them.