THE future for Joe Cordina now lies within the light-weight division however he admits whoever he fights wants to offer him the worry issue.
Three months in the past the Welshman misplaced his IBF super-featherweight world title to Northern Eire’s Anthony Cacace. Going into the combat Cordina was properly conscious of the threats the massive punching Belfast man possessed and by the eighth around the challenger’s energy proved an excessive amount of for the courageous Cordina.
Cordina instructed Boxing Information that he ought to have left 130lbs way back however doesn’t need to dwell on the previous. As an alternative, the 32-year-old is seeking to the longer term which implies transferring as much as a 135lbs weight class the place Gervonta Davis, Vasily Lomachenko, Shakur Stevenson and Denys Berinchyk maintain the world titles with dangerman William Zepeda closing in on a shot of his personal.
“If there’s a world title there and it may be made [then] why not,” Cordina mentioned.
“Combating a champion you’ve all the time obtained nerves, that little little bit of worry in shedding. My worry of shedding is very large. That worry of shedding, of combating one other champion, that’s what I wanna really feel, that’s what would deliver out the perfect in me. I’d fortunately bounce in with the champions: Lomachenko, Shakur Stevenson, “Tank” Davis and Berinchyk. Give me 10 to 12 weeks and I’d bounce in with them.”
Lomachenko is believed to be not combating once more till 2025, Stevenson remains to be a free agent and could possibly be combating Zepeda subsequent, “Tank” enterprise is quiet and Berinchyk has a goal on his again. A world title combat for Cordina could not occur straight away and as an alternative he could need to make do with one thing on a smaller scale till a possibility arises.
“If I’ve to go down the rigmarole then it must be that method,” he mentioned.
Cordina, nonetheless, doesn’t consider it is going to be troublesome to manoeuvre himself into touchdown a light-weight world title shot. However ought to he have to face fellow contenders alongside the way in which he desires to be precisely rewarded for doing so.
“In case you wanna be the perfect you’ve obtained to beat the perfect and if which means I’ve obtained to combat folks alongside the way in which to get to it then that’s it,” Cordina mentioned.
“However I don’t wanna be combating all these high fighters and never getting paid [well] for it. It looks as if everyone seems to be getting paid. I’m a two-time world champion, I need to be paid to leap into these fights as properly. So long as I receives a commission I’ll combat anybody.”