Wayne `Big Truck' Braithwaite, left and Louis Azille square off at yesterday's weigh-in. (Photo courtesy of Colin Elcock).
Louis Azille goes into this evening's world championship fight against champion Wayne Braithwaite holding the weight advantage. The short, squatty challenger, tipped the scalse at 193 and 3/4 pounds at the weigh-in yesterday, 5 and 3/4 pounds heavier than the champion.
However, Braithwaite's trainer Colin Morgan assured that Azille's weight advantage should not pose a problem for Braithwaite who he declared would win with ease. At the weigh-in Braithwaite offered a prediction that the fight will not go the distance.
"In my mind I know that it will not go the distance. In our first fight Azille made a lot of mistakes. If he does that again I'm going to capiitalise on them. I'm prepared for 12 rounds but I know that it will not go that distance," the WBC cruiserweight chhampion said.
"I'm not going to take anything away from Azille but he just comes forward for the first two rounds and doesn't move his head for the rest of the fight. I'm going to dominate this fight from round one. I'll beat him with skills and power."
"In the first fight I took his punches but when it was time for him to take mine it was a different story. I know that he will try to bull rush me but any style he chooses will turn out to be a mistake. I'll be starting in a blaze. He would not cope," Braitthwaite said.
The champion's corner will include trainers Morgan and Maurice `Bizzzy' Boyce, sparring partner John Douglas and cutman Leif Washer.
Meanwhile, in Berlin Germany this evening, WBA junior welterweight champion `Vicious' Vivian Harrris will seek to make it a daily doublle for Guuyana when he defends his title against Oktay Urkal.