Quotes: Buatsi eyeing Beterbiev belts – if he wins tomorrow on Sky

Joshua Buatsi has Artur Beterbiev’s collection of world titles in his sights next – provided he first gets past Poland’s undefeated Pawel Stepien tomorrow night atop the BOXXER card airing live on Sky Sports Showcase and Sky Sports Action from 7pm.

“[A win] gives me a shot at three belts. If it’s offered to me, I’m not going to turn it down,” Buatsi said today.

“You can never override Beterbiev. That’s a long reigning champion for a reason. Not by chance, not by anything. 

“I think there’s things he does well as a champion but I also bet on myself and say there’s things that I do well as a fighter. But let me get in the ring [tomorrow night] and show something.”

Buatsi weighed in today in Birmingham along with the rest of the fighters taking part in tomorrow night’s event, including history-making Lauren Price MBE and her opponent Kirstie Bavington, who will compete for the inaugural women’s British Championship, the first such championship sanctioned in Britain in the nation’s 114-year history of professional boxing championship titles.

Also on the card, rising star Ben ‘The Surgeon’ Whittaker – a 2020 Olympic silver medalist – hit the scales to make the light-heavyweight limit for what will be his third professional bout tomorrow night.

Today’s weights were as follows:

12 x 3 mins  Light-Heavyweight Contest @ 12st 7lbs 

Joshua Buatsi – 12st 6lbs

Pawel Stepien – 12st 7lbs

10 x 2 mins  Welterweight Contest @10st 7lbs      

Lauren Price – 10st 6lbs 5oz

Kirstie Bavington – 10st 6lbs

6 x 3 mins  Light-Heavyweight Contest @ 12st 10lbs

Ben Whittaker – 12st 6lbs 5oz 

Jordan “the Game” Grant – 12st 7lbs

10 x 3 mins Middleweight Contest @ 11st  6llbs

Macaulay McGowan – 11st 5lbs

Tyler Denny – 11st 5lbs 5oz

10 x 3 mins Super-Lightweight Contest @ 10st 2lbs

Sean McComb – 9st 13lbs 5oz

Kaisee Benjamin – 10st

8 x 3 mins Light-Heavyweight Contest @ 12st 10lbs

Shakan Pitters – 12st 11lbs

Joel McIntyre – 12st 10lbs 5oz

6/8 x 3 mins  Lightweight Contest @ 9st 12lbs

Cori Gibbs – 9st 11lbs

Jimmy “The Fist” First – 9st 10lbs 5oz

4 x 3 mins Lightweight @9st 11lbs

Danny Quartermaine – 9st 5lbs 

Christian Lopez Flores – 9st 8lbs 5oz