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Quigley got here inside inches of a combat with Alvarez final summer season, when the pair have been each signed to Golden Boy Promotions, and needs to earn it as a world champion sooner or later
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Jason Quigley needs to lastly get his shot at Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez if he is ready to beat Demetrius Andrade for the world title subsequent month.
Quigley will journey into Andrade’s dwelling nation, simply minutes from Windfall, Rhode Island the place the American grew up, in an effort to win the middleweight belt on November 19.
And will he get that victory, he’s hoping to revive his possibilities of combating Alvarez, who he was within the closing shortlist to combat final summer season earlier than the multiple-weight world champion left Golden Boy Promotions.
Quigley ended up shedding out to Callum Smith after which Avnyi Yildrim for a showdown with the pound-for-pound nice, and has gone on to earn a world title shot towards Andrade by beating Shane Mosley Jr.
And talking with Mirror Combating at a media occasion in Dublin, Quigley mentioned that he expects to earn a shot at Alvarez with a win.
“Demetrius Andrade, I consider, deserves fights with the massive, huge names on the market like Canelo or Golovkin,” Quigley defined.
“He is a two-time world champion, he ought to have been getting these sorts of fights, however he is not and his greatest likelihood to get them is when he is a world champion.
“If he hasn’t obtained them by now, I can not see him getting them sooner or later as a result of I plan on taking that belt away from him and I’ll be champion.
“I’ll be a much bigger draw for the Canelos, GGGs, Billy Joe Saunders’, Chris Eubank Jrs due to the Irish following, as a result of my combat model is a little more fan pleasant than his.
“There’s quite a bit on the road right here, this might actually catapult me as much as the elites with a victory.”
Final summer season, the information cycle was ablaze with talks of Quigley being the person to entice Alvarez into his first bout of the pandemic period, with broadcaster DAZN eager to maintain him to his profitable deal.
Sadly for the Irishman, the deal by no means got here to fruition, and when Alvarez returned to the ring beneath the Matchroom banner at the side of his personal ‘Canelo Promotions’, he was out of the equation.
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Alvarez would first tackle Callum Smith in San Antonio, earlier than beating Avnyi Yildrim in Miami and Billy Joe Saunders in Dallas, whereas Quigley might solely get out as soon as towards Mosley.
“I used to be considered one of three opponents,” Quigley mentioned of his almost made combat with the legendary Mexican final yr.
“Yildrim was considered one of them and he obtained it, and I am manner above Yildrim, however he was obligatory with the WBC or one thing like that.
“I by no means obtained despatched the contract however I used to be instructed that I used to be considered one of three opponents that was being talked about and I assumed that I used to be the favorite.
“It was me, one other Golden Boy fighter and Yildrim, and Canelo was Golden Boy as properly and I assumed I used to be going to get it as a result of we have been with the identical promotion.
“However look, Yildrim had a greater rating with the WBC and the whole lot, in order that combat obtained made then.”
Quigley and Andrade’s combat on the SNHU Enviornment in New Hampshire would be the greatest alternative of the Irishman’s profession, and one he’s not trying previous, regardless of the longer term riches a win would carry.
“I am not trying previous this combat, however I’ve long-term targets and visions in my profession that I wish to obtain,” he defined.
“In my head I’ve concepts, visions, plans on the place I wish to get to however first off is getting that world title, that is the important thing to opening all of the doorways.
“Whether or not that is unification, undisputed, shifting as much as tremendous middleweight, however on the finish of the day, I’ve to care for enterprise on November 19.”
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