Bayo Alabi heads to Belfast this Saturday with confidence, ambition, and a transparent plan to entertain.
The Dubliner options on the JB Promotions Redemption present on the Devenish Complicated, the place he takes on powerful Engel Gomez in simply his second skilled bout.
As second fights go, it’s as powerful as you get can however Alabi isn’t simply decided to make sure victory, the Frank Stacey-coached boxer desires to win in type.
“I’m feeling good and hoping to carry out good as nicely,” he informed Irish-Boxing.com. “What do I need from Saturday night time? One other present. Simply hold placing on reveals and reveals. I wish to be the speak of Belfast.”
The Tallaght boxer’s following was an actual characteristic of his debut, and he expects his followers to face out farther from house on Saturday. Certainly, he means that such is the noise round him that anybody within the venue can be intrigued to look at him field.
“I’ve been as much as Belfast earlier than to look at fights, and I’ve pals there too who’ll be coming to assist,” he added.
“My pals, household, and even individuals I’ve by no means met are taking tickets off me now. I simply really feel like I’ve that persona – individuals wish to see what I’m about. Win or lose, they’re going to concentrate.
Waiting for the problem of Gomez, Alabi is aware of he must be absolutely switched on.
The Spain-based Nicaraguan can take rounds of prospects, generally is a handful, and is all the time powerful; nonetheless, the assured Tallaght man is assured sufficient to say his stoppage need.
“He’s no pushover,” he mentioned. “He’s respectable and difficult. If he sniffs that he can get one thing out of the combat, he’ll take it. I’ve watched tape, and I’m not going to be overlooking him. I’m simply going to go in and do what I’ve to do – hopefully get a stoppage.”
The combat is Alabi’s second in simply in two months, and he desires to maintain up that fee of development for the remainder of the yr.
“If potential, I’d prefer to be 5-0 by the top of the yr,” he mentioned. “It’s practice, combat, repeat – I’m not doing the rest.”
As for what followers can anticipate from his efficiency on the Devenish, Alabi sums it up in three phrases:“Flash. Present. Stoppage.”