Do you feel that this coming June will be the best time for Ricky to fight Kostya Tszyu?
RH – “He’s coming up to his best time, really, a lot of people tend to forget that Richard is only just turned twenty-six. It seems to the boxing world that he’s been around a long time, but that’s only because his first pro fight was when he was eighteen. A lot of people say to me, “How old is Ricky, is he twenty-eight or twenty-nine?” He was only twenty- six in October. I think he and Miguel Cotto are still the babies of the division. Even though I think it’s right to face Tszyu now, Richard has had thirty-eight fights and he’s coming into his maturity, but I still think he’s a short way off of his best. He’s slowly approaching it but I still think there’s more to come really.” SB – I actually jumped up and down when I read that Tszyu had agreed to fight Ricky and I know that it’s been Ricky’s dream to a long time now to fight Kostya. RH – “Oh yeah, Tszyu’s the dream fight because he’s still considered to be the undisputed champion any way you look at it, but I think Ricky would have
