JUST days out from his WBC Middleweight title fight against Miguel Cotto, former champion Daniel Geale says his focus is on getting in to “perfect condition”.
The 34-year-old, of Harrington Park, has been training out of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, ahead of the fight at the Barclays Center, Brooklyn, on Sunday, June 7.
Geale said his approach was to focus on himself.
“The game plan is to go in and fight my fight,” he said. “It’s not to get sucked in. It’s not to get caught up in what he [Cotto] is doing. It’s to do what I do best.”
Geale’s last fight in New York ended in a disappointing three-round KO loss to Kazakh Gennady Golovkin at Madison Square Garden in July.
Like Golovkin, Cotto is a fierce, aggressive fighter with 32 of his 39 wins coming via knockout.
But Geale said Cotto’s ferocity didn’t worry him and his own agility was a plus.
“Cotto has trouble in stages against guys that move and use their reach. He knows that’s what I’m going to be doing and he’s going to be trying to counter that with aggression and coming forward,” he said.
“I’m going to use my abilities and not get caught up in his game plan.”
Cotto, of Puerto Rico, has fought the likes of Manny Pacquaio and Floyd Mayweather who recently battled each other in what was called the ‘Fight of the Century’.
“This is going to be a huge fight for me. Fighting a guy like Miguel who’s fought some of the greatest fighters is going to be a great test,” Geale said.
“I want this one badly. It’s something that we have wanted for a while and I’m extremely excited. I’ve got guys like Gary Shaw and my team at the Grange and they’re working very hard behind the scenes. I’m just going to worry about my job and they do their job greatly.”
The card will start from 11.30am AEST on Sunday, June 7, on MAIN EVENT.
Details: mainevent.com.au.
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