Former IBO super featherweight boxing champion Will Tomlinson reckons the pressure style of undefeated Mexican Francisco Vargas is made to order for him, in what looms as the biggest fight of the Australian's career.
Sydney based Victorian Tomlinson 28 (23-1. 13 KOs) will attempt to take the WBO International and NABF super featherweight titles off 30-year-old Mexican Vargas (21-0-1, 15 KOs) in San Antonio, Texas on Friday afternoon (AEDT).
He will start the underdog against Vargas, who is the No.1 ranked contender in the WBC and WBO and rated No.4 by the IBF.
Tomlinson isn't currently ranked in the top ten of the four major bodies, but a win would catapult him back into world title calculations.
The Australian weighed in right on the limit and slightly heavier than his opponent.
Tomlinson is promising a textbook `Wild Will' performance in keeping with the nickname he has earned for his crowd-pleasing, high-volume punching style.
He cheerfully admits Vargas would cause him problems if the Mexican tries to box him, but doesn't anticipate that will be the case, in what promises to be an action-packed contest.
"He's super fit and comes to fight and is going to want to apply pressure and try and force a physical fight on me," Tomlinson said from San Antonio.
"That works for me because I'm a physical fighter myself, I love those types of fights, they are the fights that I feel comfortable in.
"He would probably be better off getting on his toes and boxing and moving, that's what would give me a headache.
"But if he's there in front of me and he's willing to engage and willing to fight, that's going to suit me because that's my style, that's my game."
Tomlinson, who will be having his third fight since his only professional loss a year ago, isn't planning to show off too many new tricks.
"You're going to see the same `Wild Will,' that hungry, aggressive, seek and destroy fighter, who is willing to do anything and everything he's got to do to win."
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