In a highly
anticipated local dust-up, rising star Scott Quigg meets tough veteran Rendall
Munroe. Adding to the lustre of an already hot ticket, the fight will be for
the vacant WBA interim super bantamweight title, putting the winner in line for
much bigger things on the world stage. Here we have the tale of the tape plus
each fighter’s thoughts on the fight.
Scott
Quigg – V- Rendall Munroe
Age 23 32
Record 24-0 (17) 24-2 (10)
Height 5’8 5’6
Reach 69’
Rounds
boxed
102
190
KO%
70%
38%
Stance Orthodox Southpaw
Titles British &
WBA English, European, Commonwealth
Inter-Continental and WBA
International
Residence Bury,
England. Leicester, England.
Betting
odds 4/9
7/4
Anson Wainwright -
You take on Rendall Munroe on 16 June in Manchester for the WBA interim super bantamweight
title. What are your thoughts and comments on this fight?
Scott Quigg - I'm looking forward to the fight;
it's the biggest and toughest fight of my career and the fight I've wanted
since I became British champion and it gives me the chance to prove I'm number
one and that I belong at the higher level.
AW - How good do you think Rendall
Munroe is? What do you consider to be his strengths and what areas do you see
that you can exploit?
SQ - I rate Rendall very highly; he's
competed at the highest level and showed he belonged there with the performance
he put in against [Toshiaki] Nishioka. Rendall is very big for the weight,
physically very strong with a very high work rate, who also has a decent skill
level so he's quite a complete fighter. But with that said, I can see things I
can exploit and take advantage of on the night [of the fight].
AW - Can you tell us about your training
for this fight; where will you be training? How long will your camp be?
SQ - My training camp will be based over
in Bolton were I'm training at Amir Khan’s gym with Joe Gallagher, which is the
same from my two previous camps. I've already been in camp for three weeks
already before that I'd
just been ticking over keeping my body in shape so by time the fight comes, it
will have been a 12-week camp.
AW - In your last fight, you stopped
Jamie Arthur in eight rounds, though you had to get off the canvas in the
fourth round. Could you tell us about the fight in general, being dropped and
the finish?
SQ – Yes, the fight went the way we had
planned besides the knockdown. The plan was for the first four rounds was to
sap his energy by moving and making him miss and that’s what was happening. I
could feel, round by round, the sharpness going from his shots then in the
fourth, a lack of concentration and balance resulted to me stumbling over. So
that give him a bit of hope, so I finished the round and went to work by
pushing him back and working the body and, in the end, I ground him down.
AW - Since Munroe fought Toshiaki
Nishioka a few years ago, he has fought three times. Having seen all those
fights, what have you made of him?
SQ - Since he has fought Nishioka, he's
not really had that fight where you can get up for after competing at the top
and then coming back. Must be hard, so his performances haven’t been the most
exciting or his best but just good solid workouts. But I'm expecting to be in
the ring with the Munroe that beat Kiko Martinez twice and Victor Terrazas; that's
the Rendell I'm preparing for.
AW – Finally, do you have a message for
Rendell Munroe?
SQ - My message will be shown on the
night [of the fight].
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AW - You take on Scott Quigg on 16 June
in Manchester for the WBA interim super bantamweight title. What are your
thoughts and comments on this fight?
Rendall Munroe – It's a fight the boxing public
wants; it was originally going to be for the British title so it was a fight
made by the [British Boxing Board of Control]. We're both with Hatton
Promotions, so it was an easy fight to make really. Obviously, it's a fight for
me to get back to where I need to get back to and that’s fighting for world
titles where I should be fighting, really.
AW - How good do you think Scott Quigg
is? What do you consider to be his strengths and what areas do you see that you
can exploit?
RM - Scott Quigg is a very
good prospect and obviously we've been fighting two different classes, no disrespect to him at all, but I've
been fighting Premier League and he's been fighting Championship. They’re two
different levels. His
strength is he's a good come-forward fighter and some styles are
good to match; I'm a good come-forward fighter as well. I think my style alone,
I've shown I’m big and strong at the weight and I think a lot of people say I
struggle at the weight because of how big I am. There's never been an issue with the weight. I've done eight stone,
10 pounds (about 122-123 pounds) for the past four weeks, so there's never been
an issue with the weight.
AW - Can you tell us about your training
for this fight; where will you be training? How long will your camp be? What is
a typical day? Who are you using for sparring?
RM – Training's been normal for me,
I do a seven-to-eight week training camp with Jason Shinfield. I do my strength
and conditioning work; I'm sponsored by CNP on the supplement side. An average
day for me is to get up in the morning do my run, in the afternoon, do my gym
session, sparring, pad
work with Jason, whatever he asks me. In
the evening time, it's conditioning work and outside for another run. So every day’s
different; whatever they pick for me, I just do it. We've got a lad in from
France, Anthony Arimany, the French featherweight champion;
there's Dale Miles [light welterweight], Orvill McKenzie [the current Commonwealth
light heavyweight champion] who we use for strength. There's a lot of mixes of
styles that I use for sparring partners.
AW – This will be the toughest fight
you’ve had in since your valiant but ultimately unsuccessful WBC title challenge
against Toshiaki Nishioka. What do you feel the three fights since have done
for you?
RM - I think the fights I've had
since Nishioka were the
opponents they could get for me. I think I proved how good I am as
the opportunity I should have been getting, I wasn't. That's not down to
the Hattons; they wanted to get me a title fight. I don't think any of the
world champions wanted to fight me. Right now, Scott Quigg's between me and
where I need to be, so I'm taking it from there. The fights I've had since [the
Nishioka fight], what can I say? It's one of those things and you have to go
with what's happening and do what you have to do.
AW – In his last fight, Quigg stopped
Jamie Arthur in the eighth round, though had to get off the canvas himself.
What are your thoughts on that fight?
RM – Obviously, there's things
every fighter looks at and thinks there's things he can work at. He's
a good up-and-coming prospect and
he turned the fight around well. No disrespect to him at all but I'm
going out there to win the fight. Me and my trainer have our game plan and
we're gonna stick to it and win the fight.
AW – Finally, do you have a
message for Scott Quigg?
RM - I don't believe in these stupid things. At
the end of the day, we're two warriors and we respect one another and I'm
going in there to win the fight and win world titles, which I believe I'm
good enough to do.
