Stuart Hall will face Ellesmere Port's unbeaten Paul Butler at Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena on Saturday, June 7 after both parties agreed to the contest
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Stuart Hall has told Paul Butler's team they will live to regret their "embarrassing" behaviour at the press conference to talk up the second defence of his IBF bantamweight title.
Darlington’s Hall will face Ellesmere Port’s unbeaten Butler at Newcastle’s Metro Radio Arena on Saturday, June 7 after both parties agreed to the contest, which is subject to final approval from the IBF.
Butler’s camp used Tuesday’s press gathering at the Hilton Hotel as an opportunity to sling mud in the champion’s direction, and Hall has promised to hit back by making his outspoken young opponent pay for it on fight night.
Hall retained the belt he won by outpointing Vusi Malinga in a December war last month, when his contest against Martin Ward was called a second round draw due to a cut caused by an accidental head clash.
The 34-year-old said: “The way his lot went on at the press conference was embarrassing.
“His dad had a go at me saying I didn’t want the fight and that his son is stronger than I am.
“He even went on to say that Vusi Malinga wouldn’t even be ranked in the top four in Britain and that his son would have stopped him in six rounds.
“How disrespectful is that? They haven’t given me any credit for winning the title at all.
“The only thing that delayed the bout being made was that they didn’t offer enough money.
“I’ve got to think of my future.
“Their behaviour got under my skin a bit but, going by the way they went on, I’m under theirs.
“Don’t get me wrong, Butler is a class act and is sharp and unbeaten.
“He has got a good body shot, but we have sparred five times and he only caught me once with it and I didn’t show it.
“He is going to find out on the night the difference between a super flyweight and a super- bantamweight.
“Even his trainer Anthony Farnell got involved at the press conference, but the way they all went on has given me even more incentive to smash him.”
Hall said he is both bigger as well as better than Butler, despite the Liverpudlian’s team’s claims to the contrary.
“They tried to make a big deal of the fact that I haven’t stopped any of my last eight opponents,” he continued.
“But look who I’ve been fighting, and look who he’s been fighting.
“I look like a giant compared to him on all of the face-off photographs, and he is in for a shock.
“The way they all went on at the press conference has only made me more determined and focused.
“I even said that boxers who have sparred each other can end up fighting, but they kept going on.
“It doesn’t matter. I will be the same old Stuey Hall - humble, and I’ll respect him.
“But I’ll do the business on the night.
“He doesn’t know what it takes to win a world title. I do and I’m going to keep hold of it.”
Butler said: “I’m over the moon that the fight is in Newcastle, I wanted to fight him here in his backyard and beat him in his hometown in front of his own fans.
“It’s going to be a cracking fight for the fans and the TV viewers on BoxNation.”
Hall against Butler will be live and exclusive on subscription channel BoxNation (Sky Channel 437/HD 490 and Virgin Ch. 546).
Tickets, priced at £40, £60, £75, £150 and £200 are available from the Metro Radio Arena Booking Line on 0844 493 6666 or metroradioarena.co.uk
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