Steve Robinson is on the lookout for redemption when he bins unbeaten Scottish heavyweight Nick Campbell subsequent week.
Robinson suffered the primary defeat of his professional profession in an upset loss to Shane Gill in February.
He’s although taking the chance to bounce again when he fights Campbell on the December 17 Bournemouth invoice, reside on Sky Sports activities.
“I do not need to be bubble-wrapped after that loss. I do not need to go on 5, six fights towards nobodies to get to the place I have to be. I do know Nick is in my path to the place I must go,” Robinson stated.
“I’ve little question come Saturday the seventeenth I am going to present why I needs to be up there.”
Robinson insists he’ll study from the Gill struggle and transfer on. “I at all times say in case you look within the rear view mirror the entire time you are driving your automobile, you are going to crash,” he advised Sky Sports activities.
“It was robust [to come back]. It comes with the game and with out having a thick pores and skin you would not be the place you might be in boxing. It was onerous, it was robust. However like I say it is pointless wanting again on the previous. It is about creating the longer term and ensuring that what I do any more out is right.
“We’ll see on December 17 the place I should be.”
Campbell is just not solely undefeated, he has received all of his 5 fights up to now inside the space. However Robinson has seen flaws in his boxing.
“He desires to maintain that momentum going with the knockouts,” Robinson stated.
“He is apparently heavy-handed, his photographs are stiff. However when your photographs are stiff and also you’re heavy-handed you allow your self weak. You turn out to be stiff and in case you’re not shifting round then there are issues to use. I can see it not going previous the fourth.
“It is Valhalla and I am going to present that,” the Newcastle man added. “I am going to simply make it possible for it doesn’t matter what I go away that ring victorious.”
Robinson says the England versus Scotland facet of their conflict will give it an additional edge.
“The one good factor to come back out of Scotland is the street to Newcastle!” he stated jovially.
“We have got the World Cup remaining the day after and there is the likelihood nonetheless that England might be in that. If that occurred, I believe that might add slightly bit additional and it might be improbable. I believe the entire England-Scotland factor, we see it in all sports activities, it’s going to at all times have that little bit of pleasure factor concerned. It is historical past, is not it?”
He’s adamant the struggle will get vicious. “You might be as pleasant as you need after which come that ringwalk and stepping into that ring, all of it goes out the window,” he stated. “Mentally you have to change that fast.
“There’s two gladiators within the ring. And there is just one leaving victorious.”
Nick Campbell vs Steve Robinson takes place on the undercard of the December 17 Bournemouth invoice, reside on Sky Sports activities
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