boxing, racquetball, running races and anything else.”ĭavid, who has a 14-1-3 record with seven knockouts and who has shown flashes of promise, will go against Richard “Mad Dog” Campbell of Milwaukee, who is 6-2-2. I like the competition – I’ve always like to compete. You go in there and a guy tries to knock your head off. A lot of people just go into the ring to fight. “My style of fighting is a lot of brawling, holding. I’m only a human being, and there’s only so much of that that you can take.”Ĭruz carries the nickname “El Bravo,” and he has been lauded more than once for his courage. and don’t get back until after 7 at night. “It’s rough when you put in eight hours of work and then go right to the gym to train. 6.That doesn’t make any sense.”Ĭruz said he has never stopped training but that he could be a little rusty on Saturday night. I beat Ricky Young twice (the only two pro losses for Young), and he’s ranked No. “They put me out because I haven’t been fighting. If I can fight six times this year, I can get back in the rankings. “This fight in gonna be good for me, to get me back on track. But because he has not fought, he has been dropped from the rankings.Ĭruz, who will be 30 in May and admits “I better make it now. 15 by the North American Boxing Federation last September. 11 in the USA, and he was still ranked No. He will bring a 20-5-2 record into tomorrow night’s bout. Everything was going good, and then that went down the drain, too.” I said, ‘Let’s get it on.’ He said it was okay King said it was okay, and then Camacho got in a car accident. “I went up to him in New York and told him I heard he was moving up (in weight). He said he also came close to arranging a bout with Camacho. The only positive thing to come out of that incident was that “I did get paid what I was supposed to get to fight.” You train so hard and get psyched up for nothing.” I just wanted to fight so bad, and I was so angry. I was gonna punch (his opponent) in the mouth, and then I realized it wasn’t his fault. I was in the locker room when the guy comes in and says the fight’s canceled. But the show in the Garden ran too long, and suddenly they came in and canceled the thing. I was in the last fight before the main event. He also was listed to fight on the undercard of a Don King-promoted show that had Hector Camacho and Edwin Rosario in the main event. He said he didn’t want to fight someone with my awkward style.” “And then all of a sudden Bramble called it off.
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