Interim junior Featherweight world titleholder Isaac Dogboe has stepped up preparations for his April 28th bout with Gabriel Magdaleno with an intensive road exercise.
The 22-year-old boxer has been put through a rigorous and gruelling road training by his coach to get him ready for the bout against the Mexican boxer.
The two boxers have been involved in war of words with Magdaleno branding Dogboe a racist following a comment by the latter’s trainer.
“It is very disrespectful, especially having my father come here at a young age and suffered and went to a lot of dramatic things. It is not just my dad,its plenty of other Latinos and Mexicans and Southern Americans.
“It is everybody around the world that struggles and wants the the American dream that they don’t get to have. For him to say something foul like that was very wrong.
“I have never witnessed any racism in boxing in my entire career and to go through it hurts.
“At the end of the day I have a job to do and my job is to go in there ans show him and his father some respect,” Magdaleno indicated.
The fight was originally scheduled to take place on April 14th, as part of the undercard to Terence Crawford vs. Jeff Horn at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. But it has been pushed back after Crawford suffered an injury and the entire April 14th card was scrapped.
The fight will now take place on April 28th in Philadelphia.
Magdaleno (25-0, 18 KOs), while coming from a Mexican background, was born and bred in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Dogboe (18-0, 12 KOs), who represented Ghana in the 2012 Olympic games in London, secured the title shot with his unexpected knockout of dangerous Cesar Juarez in their final eliminator.
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