Over the last 20 years the Super middleweight has given the British boxing fans some memorable fighters; whether it was Joe Calzaghe, Chris Eubank or Nigel Benn .On Friday night former commonwealth gold medallist Kenny Anderson takes his first steps to aim to join that club.
Recently while the euphoria in Glasgow of Ricky Burns win over Michael Gomez was being celebrated Anderson was in the hospital having his rib checked out after having it broken in the Celtic title fight with Nathan King.
Although the victor in the fight, Anderson has to play the waiting game for waiting for it to heal “It is hard to gauge It the now. The injury is in the earlier stage where it has to be properly healed and rested .At moment I am not doing much, normally after a fight I usually have a spur on and want to train more.“
He adds abut the timescales “It will be full rest at the moment, then about 6 weeks it will be building back into full training. At the start of the training I will work around the injury with running and other training”
After a strong amateur career ,which seen Anderson win the commonwealth gold medal in Melbourne 2006 in light heavyweight ,he then decided to turn professional .After various offers he accepted the offer from Frank Warren and made his debut on the undercard of Joe Calzaghe v Sakio Bika,and has moved down to super middleweight.
Anderson currently has seven KO’s form ten outings. I asked him what he puts his high knockout ratio down to “I put it down to my boxing ability. The is an abundance of guys there with a big dig: but for me it’s all about your footwork, positioning and movement. Your boxing a guy into position to throw the right shot, .If it wasn’t for my boxing ability I wouldn’t have knocked them out.
“Domestically, the super middleweight division is a strong division that is packed with a strong roster of fighters with the likes of Carl Froch and Brian Magee currently recognised as the best in the division.
I asked Anderson how long he thinks it will be before he is mixing it up with them, and he thinks he is at that standard already “ I would take any of the top guys in my next fight .I don’t think I am miles away form it. I didn’t look to hot in my last fight, but that was because a broken rib. I know I am a lot better than what I have shown in all my fights. I would be happy to take them on tomorrow if my rib wisent broken. It is not my decision aswell, its Frank Warrens too”
So while Anderson is forging ahead with his title ambitions, there is anew crop of Super middleweights who turned pro after last years Olympics. I asked him what he thinks of James DeGale and Darren Sutherland and other Olympians “It is hard to gauge; everyone is talking about what these guys will do. Just because they won an Olympic medal doesn’t mean they will have successful professional career. That goes for me as well; just because I won a gold medal at the commonwealth doesn’t mean I could have a great pro career”
Anderson goes to point out the difference between the professional and amateur fight games “There like two different sport’s .The format, the defence side of it so different. They are good fighters, and good fighters can adapt, however they have not to think they can get it on merit.”
Given how vocal some of the ex Olympian’s have been since turning pro Anderson doesn’t feel it is his position to pass comment “It would be rude for me to judge I feel. When I am at a stage of my career where folk will have doubts about me .Until I have been there and done it, I won’t pass comment”
So at the moment Anderson may not be on everyone’s radar, however a few more wins could certainly put him in the right direction. With the British title held by Tony Quigley it certainly could only be a matter of time before they both meet.
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