{"id":16080,"date":"2011-09-23T09:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T13:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16080"},"modified":"2011-09-23T09:17:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T13:17:56","slug":"darren-barker-ready-for-sergio-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16080","title":{"rendered":"Darren Barker READY for Sergio Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16080\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16080 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-534\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"RSR Boxing Headlines header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/RSR-Boxing-Headlines-header11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Checking in from his rigorous training camp, \u201cDazzling\u201d Darren Barker (23-0, 14 KOs) says he is \u201cin a happy place\u201d ahead of his October 1 shot against middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (47-2-2, 26 KOs) at Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, NJ. Barker is ready to swap the peace and tranquillity of his Lake Ontario training camp for the hustle and bustle of New York City, but the Londoner says his training camp has been the perfect preparation for the biggest fight of his career. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old unbeaten European Champion is confident that he can shock the world when he faces the world\u2019s premier middleweight, and says that his preparations have been perfect for the showdown, live on HBO in the U.S,. and Sky Sports in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a really nice place and that matters a lot,\u201d said Barker. \u201cIf I was somewhere boring with nothing to do in my downtime, I\u2019d probably go nuts, but this is a lovely part of the world, I can see Niagara Falls from the base, it\u2019s just perfect \u2013 a perfect place for a perfect fight night. It\u2019s been a very happy camp for all of us \u2013 Tony (Sims, trainer) and my brother Lee have been fantastic and I could not be in a better place going into the fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe training is going to plan brilliantly, I\u2019ve never trained harder for a fight, but then again, I have to train that hard because it\u2019s Sergio Martinez, one of the best in the business. I\u2019d be selling myself short if I didn\u2019t put an extra 20 percent in every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 23-0 fighter also acknowledged that he is a major underdog in the fight, but made it clear that he is not in the States just to make up the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy fans are coming over to see me win, not see me try,\u201d said Barker. \u201cI am a real threat to Sergio, I won\u2019t be happy with just a good showing. 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Barker is ready to swap the peace and tranquillity of his Lake Ontario training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,5516],"class_list":["post-16080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-sergio-martinez-darren-barker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}