Scott Quigg fancies a shot at a featherweight World Boxing Super Series and says if the tournament does go ahead, Kid Galahad won’t be in it.
Galahad has put forward the idea of a World Boxing Super Series and Quigg says the Ingles’ slickster isn’t good enough to take part!
The 126lb division is arguably the strongest in world boxing, with the likes of Leo Santa Cruz, Abner Mares, Gary Russell Jr and Carl Frampton at the top.
Quigg looks set to meet the winner of the Santa Cruz-Mares rematch next year and says Galahad isn’t among the featherweight elite, despite winning all 23 fights and currently being ranked No 5 by the IBF.
Galahad has called for a fight with Joseph ‘Jo Jo’ Diaz on the Billy-Joe Saunders-David Lemieux undercard in Montreal on December 16 – but Quigg is unimpressed.
“He’s an idiot,” said Quigg of Galahad.
“He thinks he is calling the shots – and he’s irrelevant.
“If there was a Super Series, he wouldn’t even be in it! He wouldn’t make the cut.
“It’s a cracking weight division and it would be a great tournament – and Galahad would be watching it.
“He makes a lot of noise, but he doesn’t do anything he hasn’t fought anyone yet.
“I would definitely be up for it.”
Quigg is also up for the winner of the Santa Cruz-Mares rematch, pencilled in for next March, and should get his shot following his six-round stoppage of Oleg Yefimovych in Monte Carlo earlier this month.
Yefimovych is a 36 year old Ukrainian who is a well-established European operator and Quigg says that by breaking him down in six fairly one-sided rounds, he proved he is world class and ready for another shot at top honours.
“That performance showed the level I’m at,” said Quigg, who made five defences of the WBA super-bantamweight title during his two-and-a-bit year reign. “I went in there, did what I wanted to do and won comfortably. I enjoyed it in there.”
That was Quigg’s third fight under Freddie Roach.
The 29 year old from Bury started his pro career under Brian Hughes MBE in 2007 after only a handful of amateur bouts and upon Hughes’s retirement, he switched to Joe Gallagher.
Quigg had a rethink following his split points defeat to Frampton in their super-bantamweight unification fight in Manchester last February.
Quigg was beaten after suffering a broken jaw in the fourth round of a fight that fell a long way short of fulfilling the hype that surrounded it.
Quigg says he is determined to secure a rematch with Frampton, the only fighter to beat him in his 37-fight career (two draws), and that his defeat to the Irishman was a turning point in his career.
He moved up to featherweight and teamed up with Roach at his Wild Card gym in Los Angeles.
Three wins later, he’s on the brink of another shot at world honours – and says he’s boxing better than ever after more than a decade as a pro.
“I’m moving my head more, working on my skills and when and why we do things in there,” he said. “I feel my whole game has improved.
“The quality of sparring I get over there is second to none. I’m in there with fighters like (WBO featherweight champion) Oscar Valdez and every fighter in that gym is top level.
“I’ve been working very hard and I’m confident I will become a two-weight world champion.
“Going to the States wasn’t a hard decision to make. Boxing is my life and it’s what I had to do to be the best I can be.”
Quigg says that at his best, he is more than capable of beating either Santa Cruz or Mares.
Santa Cruz won a majority points verdict over Mares when they clashed a couple of years ago – and Frampton rates the much-anticipated return “a 50-50 fight.”
He added: “I’m looking forward to watching it. Mares has been more active since they last fought, but it’s still a 50-50 fight. I believe that I can beat both of them.”
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