Newly Minted British Champ Williams Gets Homecoming

ByBoxing Press

On Wednesday British Cruiserweight Champion Leon ‘Solid’ Williams returned to the Trad TKO Boxing Gym, in Canning Town, for the first time since defeating long time Champ Rob Norton and winning the coveted Lonsdale Belt.

Williams – who made the early return to undertake an interview with Sky Sports’ Ed Robinson, which will be aired on the Sky Sports Ringside Show this evening at 6pm – bought the Championship belt with him to show to his gym mates.

Following the interview Williams spent about an hour chatting about the
fight with gym mates and being photographed with everyone in the gym at
the time.

Just before leaving to go back home for a well deserved break Williams
took a few minutes to talk about the fight and his future plans, “Not best
pleased with the overall performance, Rob Norton’s very awkward and cagey
opponent. He’s very, very experienced.

But at the end of the day we got the win and that’s all that matters.

I’m not really fussed who I’m going to fight next, I’m British Champion
and I’ll defend it to the best of my ability.

I’m not letting that belt go, it’s across my shoulder right now and it’s
going to stay there, yeah it’s just gonna stay there.

There’s no one I’m scared of, or intimidated by in this weight category,
domestically any way. No one is great they’re just normal and can be
beaten, they can all be dominated by me.

I’d even fight Rob Norton again, yeah I’d take that. It wouldn’t be the
prettiest fight again but the tactics would change I’d meet him early
instead of later on and I don’t think he’d be able to withstand that.

Rob was a good Champion, awkward, cagey, done his thing right, but the
better man won on the twenty first.

I want to dominate the Cruiserweight division domestically, look good for
television and my supporters and make my name, then we’ll move on to
conquer Europe. Yeah it’s onwards and upwards for Team Solid

I’d like to say a big thanks to Johnny Eames, Barry Smith, Rio (Gianluca
Di Caro) and Jimmy Tibbs from my gym, the brilliant Trad TKO, as well as
Ken and Dougie from my sponsor BoxFit, Dave from my sponsor Ringside and
my other sponsors Radio King and South West Cars, RIP Danny Easam and all
my supporters.

If it wasn’t for my supporters I wouldn’t be here now. They’ve all
supported me on the small hall shows and they’ve stuck by me even when my
fights were getting canceled and they were losing money, but they’re still
here, so a big thank you to all those guys and girls, loads of girls.”