SAUCEDO SPEAKS ON INSTANT CLASSIC VS LENNY Z; UPCOMING WBO TITLE CHALLENGE AND MORE!

Congrats on your victory over Lenny Z in an absolutely fantastic fight and fight of the year candidate. You probably took a bit more than you wanted to going into the fight, but it was terrific and by far the biggest win of your career. Can you give us some thoughts on your performance? We definitely put in a lot of work for that fight. We knew it was going to be tough, we knew Lenny Z was a tough guy with a strong KO percentage. That fourth round was a little off for me and it got tough when he countered my lazy jab with a good right hand. That was a tough round for me, but other than that I feel like I had the first few rounds pretty well and got back to business after the fourth round.

Alex Saucedo: “Not much-just surviving. I had all of the support here from the people of my city and it was good we gave them a great show, I’m glad everyone enjoyed yet and now everyone is saying it’s a fight of the year candidate.”

GL: How many stitches did it take to close you up?

AS: “I got five stitches.”

AS: “Yeah, I mean I’m a warrior in there and I’m always going to try to get the win no matter how. That’s what I did in this fight, I had to be a warrior and that’s ok.”

AS: “I have no date yet, I just need to recover from these cuts and then hopefully we’re going to be back in the ring before the end of the year against Maurice Hook for the WBO title. I’m going to be back in the gym and start working out within the next week and then whenever I get the fight date I’m going to head back out to big bear.”

AS: “I definitely want to come back and fight here, I understand if Maurice Hooker doesn’t want to come here, but I’ll fight him wherever. I don’t care, I’ll fight him in his backyard. I’m definitely wanting to give my fans of Oklahoma City another great show for the world title, but we’ll see what happens.”

AS: “There’s a lot of things that I’ve seen I did wrong so I’m definitely going to work on these things that we didn’t do right in the gym. We’re definitely going to go back to the gym and fix a lot of things, but I’ve always been an aggressive fighter that goes forward, but there’s some things I need to change.”

AS: “Definitely and I think that’s something we’re going to be working on, but it’s like I said I’ve always bene an aggressive fighter and I’m just glad that everybody enjoyed the fight.”

AS: “I think it’s great to hear that from the man. He knows his fighters, he knows what he’s doing and he’s made so many big name champions so that coming from Arum is a great thing, so I’m just going to keep doing my job and keep working hard in the gym, keep working on the things I need to work on and just move forward.”

AS: “He’s a great fighter and I probably think it’ll be a great fight. I think it’ll be a totally different fight than Lenny Z, but I’m always going to be the guy who comes forward and puts the pressure. He’s had three draws with guys who fight that similiar style and I’m looking forward to getting that title and bringing it back to OKC. He’s tall and he’s got reach with power in both hands, but you’ve seen the draws he had.”

AS: “Yeah, yeah, there’s a couple of fights that I thought was tough for him. We know what he likes and what he doesn’t. When we fight he’s going to be in there with the best Saucedo ever.”

AS: “I appreciate everyone that has been supporting, this is only the beginning we’re going to be moving onto bigger and better things and fighting the champions.”