Jermall Charlo On Juan Macias Montiel Title Defense And His Immediate Future: “I Want To Stop This Guy, We Need To Get Golovkin, Canelo And Andrade In The Ring”

By: Hans Themistode

Jermall Charlo is presently watching the times slowly go by. This coming weekend, the WBC middleweight champion will put his belt and undefeated report on the road when he takes on the hard-hitting Juan Macias Montiel. The 2 are scheduled to face off in Charlo’s hometown of Houston Texas, on the Toyota Heart.

Regardless of Charlo being the heavy favourite, Montiel (22-4-2, 22 KOs) has talked a giant sport. With each single one in every of his wins coming through stoppage, the Mexican native plans on making Charlo one other knockout sufferer. No matter his brazen trash discuss, Charlo can’t assist however smile and nod when he discusses the verbal threats by his upcoming opponent.

From the second the opening bell rings, Charlo (31-0, 22 KOs) doesn’t wish to field and transfer. With all of the nonstop knockout discuss, Charlo needs Montiel to face and bang in the course of the ring with him.

“Montiel can’t make any errors,” mentioned Charlo throughout an interview on The Jake Asman Present on SportsMap Radio. “I’ve simply as many knockouts as him and I’ve knocked out method stiffer competitors than he has. He’s a assured child and I perceive why, he’s preventing for my belt. Followers get your popcorn earlier than the struggle, he coming to bang and I wish to see how lengthy he stays within the blender.”

Charlo, 31, says that he’s totally targeted on the duty at hand. Nonetheless, with that mentioned, a matchup in opposition to Montiel didn’t precisely excite the struggle followers when it was first introduced. With the middleweight division flooded with a plethora of nice fighters, many have been anticipating a way more established identify for Charlo’s first struggle of the 2021 calendar.

Earlier than it’s all mentioned and completed, the Houstonian needs to depart an indelible mark in middleweight historical past. That, in flip, would imply a matchup in opposition to some, if not all, of the present belt holders in his division, one thing Charlo is desperately hoping occurs subsequent.

“I wish to cease this man,” continued Charlo. “I wish to present y’all that Jermall Charlo is for actual and we have to get Golovkin, Canelo and Andrade within the ring.”

Amongst these beforehand talked about names, Golovkin is probably the one fighter Charlo has chased longer than the others. Whereas followers are crossing their fingers and hoping they face off within the close to future, Charlo revealed that his workforce tried to make their showdown a actuality.

“We reached out to him. Hopefully, the struggle occurs someday.”