Andrew Cain is growing tired of hearing the name Liam Davies.
The two super-bantamweights were scheduled to meet last month but Cain had to make do with facing Pablo Ariel Gomez after Davies pulled out with an injury.
Davies was placed on media duties during the weigh-in. Queensbury’s Dev Sahni brought the two men together after Cain hit the scales and the Liverpudlian wasn’t interested in exchanging pleasantries with his rival.
“What do you want me to do? Have a nice friendly chat with the fella? I think they were trying to provoke me to do something, but I just stayed nice and calm,” said Cain in a Queensbury press release.
“Instead of just going over and knocking him out, I just tried to beat him up verbally. I think he is rattled in my presence anyway, that is what I feel anyway.
“It would have been an even better night if he hadn’t pulled out. It turned out to be a good night as it was, but it would have been even better to have smashed him.”
A highlight reel first-round finish gave Cain (9-0, 8 KOs) the WBC International Silver bauble at 122lbs and defends it on Friday night against Luis Moreno (10-2, 6 KOs). However, the future for the titleholder may lie at a weight below.
“These are the decisions we have to make when it comes, but I feel like I would be better at bantam and would be the bigger man,” he said.
“Any fight though, just give me the phone call and I’ll be there. We want to do what’s best for us and, at the moment, I think it is bantamweight.”