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The WBO super bantamweight world champion, Emanuel Navarrete, intensified his preparation before the possibility of returning to the ring in June and ruled out the view that fighting without an audience is something negative for him. In fact, he chooses to see it as a golden opportunity in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
Navarrete is one of the fighters who have been called by Zanfer to revive boxing from the TV Azteca studios in Mexico City. The project, which was intended to start on June 6, is still awaiting approval by the sports and health authorities after the announcement that staging sport behind closed doors is not possible until June 15.
“I was training for around a month and a half inside the house and right now I am going to start making the most intense preparation to get to the fight in top form and hopefully everything will turn out well. It has been a special preparation since the quarantine is complicated, but I hope everything goes well,” Navarrete said in a chat with ESPN Desportes.
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One of the conditions under which Navarrete and the rest of the boxers will have to deal with, is fighting without an audience, which for many is not the best situation, but not for Navarrete.
“I think.. fighting without an audience does not give me a negative feeling, I am happy to get out of the quarantine, not get out of it 100%, but I will return to what I like to do, which is to fight, we will be doing our best as always, my team is on the same page, we are for that,” Navarrete said.
“It is complicated with the pandemic, but I am going to take advantage of this opportunity that they are giving me and I hope that my opponent and I are do well. They have not confirmed who I am going to face, but I hope that we will all succeed.
Navarrete, 25-years-old, has a record of 31-1 with 27 knockouts, including five successful defenses of the World Boxing Organization title.
Although this fight will be a non-title contest, he doesn’t rule out the possibility of coming back again in 2020 to make one more defense before a jump to featherweight.
“This fight is going to take place one division above where I’m a champion. We are fighting once more at 122, but we do not know that at 100%, but we will see what can happen,” said Navarrete.