Richardson Hitchins says he aims to prove he is “levels above” Liam Paro when he challenges him for the IBF featherweight title on Saturday, December 7 at the Coliseo Roberto Clemente, San Juan. does The 12-round bout will be featured in their headliner live on DAZN.
(Credit: Matchroom Boxing)
Suspicious tactics
IBF mandatory Hitchins (19-0, 7 KOs) is looking to dominate Paro (25-0, 15 KOs) and not just beat him by a close count. He wants to have a general education for Australia.
The 27-year-old Hitchins is worried about the negative breakdown and rough tactics the southpaw showed in his last win over the IBF 140lb champion. Subriel Mathias June 15 in Manatee, Puerto Rico.
Paro had the edge over Matias in the strength and offensive skills department, but he was able to win by using these four things:
– Constant maintenance
– Shaking
– Movement
– Roughhouse tactics
The judge was there just the body and there doing nothing, looking & separated from the police tactics of Paro against Mathias. This was surprising, as Paro’s shoving, holding and other questionable tactics should have resulted in warnings and deductions, tipping the scales in Matias’s favor. In other words, Subriel would win.
With the Paro-Hitchins fight once again taking place in Puerto Rico, it will be interesting to see if the referee does anything to control Paro’s tactics in the fight.
If Liam chooses to keep punching, shoving and hitting Hitchins in the back of the head, is the referee going to do anything about it or just stand there blankly and aimlessly in the ring?
The Hitchins will probably be well prepared for Paro’s tricks and not just let them happen without developing a strategy to negate them.
Richardson’s goal to rule
“I’ve always had Liam Paro’s name ever since I signed with Matchroom. I signed with them at the same time. I fight with Liam Parrow. I fight with Montana. It doesn’t really matter,” Richardson Hitchins told Boxing News.
“Now that he’s got the world title. I just want to go out there and show that I’m better than Liam Parrow. It’s not even about winning the world title. If I’m going to get an inch of the world title, it’s i won’t like But it’s about going there and separating myself to be the fighter that I know.
“I would not say that he won in a comfortable and dominant style. I think he won the fight in a fashion that you know. It wasn’t comfortable and it wasn’t dominant,” Hitchins said of Paro’s 12-round unanimous decision win over IBF welterweight champion Subriel Matias on June 15 in Manatee, Puerto Rico.
Paro’s win over Mathias was anything but comfortable. He had to hold, push and move to avoid being knocked out by the IBF champion. Again, if the referee was in his position, he would have warned and punished Pa, it would have been a different matter.
I felt that Liam should have scored three points in the fight which would have changed the results significantly and probably let Mathias knock him out. Without the hold and punch that Paro got away with, he would have to either stand and fight or run away. He wasn’t going to win a fight by moving. So he had to fight Mathias, which didn’t end well for him because he was getting punched when he traded blows.
“Liam came in with a basic game plan. Move, touch, hit, hold and do it the whole fight (against Matias),” Hitchins said. “When he started to break down mentally, he encouraged his corner . “You can do it” and he was already on the blanks. He just had to go ahead and not give up. He got away with a lot of maintenance, he said Hitchins on Paro’s ugly win, full of clinches, movement and pressure on Matias.
“Once we get in there, we’ll see how his time lines up with mine,” Hitchins said.
