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“FURY STILL BEATS USYK”

Solomon Dacres on the recent showing of his sparring partner, the switch from Matchroom to Queensberry, and his difficult debut for his new promoters, with Shaun Brown

HOW DO you rate your performance against Michael Webster on November 18?

Just thank God I got the win in that one [laughs]. It weren’t my best performance. I wasn’t sharp, I wasn’t anywhere near my best. It was short notice; two weeks. I’d been away for five weeks with [Tyson] Fury, doing bits of sparring. When you’re a sparring partner, you’re not really doing the rounds for yourself. So, I was ticking over doing a bit of sparring, got the callu had to take it, really.

Did you think you had won?

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