Joshua vs Klitschko: Scott Quigg ready for first fight with Freddie Roach at Wembley Stadium
Monday 24 April 2017 12:39, UK
Scott Quigg is looking to use the Joshua-Klitschko event to showcase the improvements he has made under new trainer Freddie Roach.
The former super-bantamweight world champion has moved up to featherweight and will take on Viorel Simion at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, live on Sky Sports Box Office in what has been confirmed as an eliminator for the IBF title.
Saturday's winner will move up to second in the IBF rankings and in place to take on champion Lee Selby if mandatory challenger Jonathan Barros is unavailable.
It will be his second fight at 126lbs and his first with Hall of Famer Roach in his corner, and Quigg is focused on showing he is a new fighter.
"To be on this platform, everyone is going to see the difference in me, the improvements I've made and how I am going to perform under Freddie. I couldn't ask for a better stage to show it all off," he exclusively told Sky Sports.
"I believe you will see a new me. I feel like a 10 times better fighter and there are just little things I've been learning. The things we have been doing are educating me, teaching me what to do, when to do it and how to do it.
"Little differences make massive changes and that's what you'll see. It's fine tuning things.
"My style is the same and I am a Mercedes, so he's not going to try and turn me into a BMW. I am what I am but what he can do is improve it, add new tyres, exhaust pipes, those little slight changes.
"He is making what I've got better and he's teaching me how to use it better."
Quigg, who headlined a Sky Sports Box Office bill when he lost the unification fight with rival Carl Frampton in February 2016, will be one of the supporting acts before the huge heavyweight showdown between Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko.
Opponent Simion has only lost once as a professional to IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby, but even with Frampton yet to confirm an opponent for a summer date at Windsor Park, Belfast, Quigg is refusing to look past Saturday night.
"I am very grateful to be given the chance to be on this and I am going to grab it with both hands," he said.
"I will make sure I go out there and put on a great display because Eddie Hearn, Anthony Joshua and the Klitschko team decided I am on the bill so I've got to go out there and prove it.
"To box in front of 90,000 people is what people dream about. It is a great platform for my first fight with Freddie Roach and it's a great platform to go out there and deliver - which I sure I will.
"I'm hoping I am quite high up the card, the one or two before him, but either way the main thing is doing my job and then definitely being ringside to watch Anthony Joshua do the job on Klitschko."
