Free agent Jesse Hart is ready for a big game and hopefully someone like Kaleb Plant or Edgar Berlanga is ready to take the call.
Philadelphia Hart improved to 31-3 (25 KOs) with a fifth-round decision over Daniel Adeku (15-5-1, 11 KOs) on Saturday at the Liaikouras Center in Philadelphia), and now They hope to return to the title race. .
Hart, the son of Philadelphia legend Eugene Cyclone Hart, is ready to go after losing to Gilberto Ramirez in 2017 and 2018 for the WBO 168-pound belt. Ramirez now holds the 200-pound title.
“I hope Saturday’s fight is more productive for the fighters who want to fight me,” said Hart. – In my opinion, I am the most avoided person these days because many people don’t want to gamble with me. A lot of people don’t want to lose, so I didn’t get the fight I wanted – the fight I thought I deserved. But I think after Saturday, everything will change.
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Hart, 34, spoke before the fight about his efforts to raise awareness of knife crime in his hometown and his desire to succeed in winning a world title, a goal he failed to achieve and his father though ‘Tornado’ is facing A who’s who of today. famous boxers from the 1970s, including Bennie Briscoe, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Marvin Hagler, Vito Vito Antufermo, Boogaloo Watts, and Sugar Ray Seales.
Hart is eager to take the belt.
– This is very exciting for me because it is still pending and in my mind. I think about it every time I go to practice,” Hart said. – Every time I get ready to fight, that’s the main goal – to win the world title for my family and to be the best boxer in the world, that, for me, is more important my family heritage.
Of course, Hart is well aware of Philadelphia’s proud boxing heritage, far from his family name.
When asked about his Philadelphia championship, Hart wasn’t sure where to begin.
“Everything,” he said with a smile. –The entire collection, my dad made me watch as a kid, all the Philly Fighters; George Benton, Matthew Saad Muhammad, Willie Worm Monroe, [Benny] Briscoe, he asked me to come and see him. One time he told me to watch a guy named “Gypsy” Joe Harris, and there weren’t many movies about him, but my dad knew someone had made a little movie about “Gypsy” Joe Harris. , and I watched. he is. My father told me about how he had one eye. He and George Benton were, I believe, my greatest heroes in Philadelphia, and my father, of course.
As a professional, Jesse’s father won 30 fights, lost nine, drew one, and had 28 stoppages. His son always wanted to follow his father’s path and he also hoped to win his father’s love from fans.
– I want to follow in his footsteps in this regard. “I want to be a force for good for the fans — you can’t make power,” Hart continued. – Many people say that you can create, you can do this, you can do that, but you cannot create strength. You have to be born with it.
—Timothy Bradley proves that you can have all the power in the world without ever stepping out of a wet paper bag. You have to be born – it’s a legacy, I don’t know how my father did it, but it’s a legacy. – I want to make friends for this because a person can be a world champion for decades without anyone paying attention and without money. Mike Tyson, a man who can beat beautiful people, said he could make $100 million in two years and become a world champion because he is beautiful. Everyone wanted to see him and he had the ability to defeat that man with one shot. This is what I want.
While Hart is eager for a light heavyweight title shot, he is open to facing a number of big name fighters and believes his free agency will help him achieve that goal while he is looking forward to important and lucrative matches to complement his amazing run. work
“Of course, I hope I will be in a big fight tomorrow,” he said. – I can work with everyone. I don’t need to sign and promote, I can fight Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom guys – he has Edgar Berlanga, PBC has Kai Caleb Plant, David Benavidez. We can all cross hands.
– I can transfer punishment to someone, that’s what we want. We don’t want to just be in our own way. No, I want to shake hands with everyone.
