{"id":49685,"date":"2015-01-08T08:27:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T14:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=49685"},"modified":"2015-01-08T08:27:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T14:27:55","slug":"steve-upsher-ready-for-any-and-all-comers-at-135-140-lbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=49685","title":{"rendered":"Steve Upsher Ready for Any and All Comers at 135 & 140 LBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"boxingringheader\"<\/a>After competing against fighters as much as two weight divisions out of his natural Jr. Welterweight division, Steve Upsher (24-4-1, 6 KO’s) is ready to move back down and take a run at the best Jr. Welterweights in the world.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Upsher put up a great effort in falling short against former world champion Andre Berto. In his two previous bout, Upsher fought natural Jr. Middleweight Eddie Gomez and former Welterweight champion Luis Collazo.<\/p>\n

“Basically I have never lost at 140 pounds. My only losses were at 135 and I avenged that loss. Gomez is a natural 154 pounder; Berto and Collazo are former Welterweight world champions. All of the fights had contracted weights of 150 pounds,” said Upsher.<\/p>\n

“I am naturally a 140 pounder. In those fights, I was eating Dairy Queen on the week of the fight just to get up to the weight. And i was still only about 145 pounds.”<\/p>\n

With the move back down to Jr. Welterweight, Upsher has the confidence that he can compete at the highest level.<\/p>\n

“I am willing to fight anybody. I just want the promoters to make the reward worth the risk. The cards are always stacked against me because I don’t have a promoter. I see some of these guys who are being moved and I know that they can’t carry my jockstrap, but because they have a promoter they are all getting the right fights.”<\/p>\n

After fighting just one time in each of the past two years, Upsher wants to be more active.<\/p>\n

“I am ready to fight three or four times this year and hopefully people will see that I am a talented fighter. I just want an opportunity from a promoter and heck if I don’t perform then they can drop me. I just want that chance.”<\/p>\n

“Michael Perez has a chance to fight on Fox Sports 1 in Philadelphia on January 20th but his team turned down the fight saying I was too dangerous of a fight. Seriously this is a man’s game. Either s*** or get off the pot. Stop all the picking and dodging and fight. The sport would be a whole lot better that way and it would weed out the gimmicks and pretenders!”<\/p>\n

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After competing against fighters as much as two weight divisions out of his natural Jr. Welterweight division, Steve Upsher (24-4-1, 6 KO’s) is ready to move back down and take a run at the best Jr. Welterweights in the world. In 2014, Upsher put up a great effort in falling short against former world champion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11723],"class_list":["post-49685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-steve-upsher-ready-for-any-and-all-comers-at-135-140-lbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49685","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=49685"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}