{"id":79876,"date":"2019-04-26T11:07:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=79876"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:12:52","slug":"regis-prograis-isnt-pulling-any-punches-in-his-comments-about-kiryl-relikh-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=79876","title":{"rendered":"Regis Prograis Isn&#8217;t Pulling Any Punches in his Comments About Kiryl Relikh &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=79876\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=79876\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-79877 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mail-18-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mail-18-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mail-18-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mail-18.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>WBC Diamond Champion Regis Prograis talked legacy and Kiryl Relikh at the final press conference in Lafayette, Louisiana ahead of the WBSS super-lightweight semi-final at the Cajundome on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLegacy never dies. This will be here way when I\u2019m just ashes and gone,\u201d Prograis told local TV Station, KATC, at the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I signed up for the tournament. It\u2019s a big risk and reward at the same time. It\u2019s real fights. You can\u2019t duck people, you have to fight. It\u2019s a big reward at the end, at the end of the rainbow is the pot of gold.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Prograis\u2019 trainer Bobby Benton has outlined the gameplan to follow for Saturday\u2019s semi-final against Kiryl Relikh, the WBA Champion of Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBenton tells me what he does and what he does good and what he does bad and what his tendencies are,\u201d said Prograis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe doesn\u2019t go in completely blind \u2013 he has an idea of what his opponents will do \u2013 but this set up allows him to be freed up entering the ring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt makes me become the best me I feel,\u201d said Prograis. \u201cYou aren\u2019t expecting anything. I expect the best. I expect him to be really fast, really strong, really aggressive. That\u2019s what my mindset is. It\u2019s focused on him being the best. I\u2019m preparing to go against the best every time and I can\u2019t wait for Saturday to go out and do what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kiryl Relikh is expecting an even fight. \u201cHe is not easy, and I am not easy so I think it will be an interesting fight,\u201d he told. \u201cI don\u2019t want to reveal too much about my plan of how to beat him, but you\u2019ll see on Saturday\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets starting at $25 for the WBSS Super-Lightweight and Bantamweight Semi-Finals on April 27 at the Cajundome in Lafayette, LA are available from TicketMaster here.<\/p>\n<p>Fans in the U.S. and Canada can watch all the Ali Trophy semi-finals LIVE, exclusively on DAZN.<\/p>\n<p>WBSS Season 2 Semi-Finals:<\/p>\n<p>27 April &#8211; Cajundome, Lafayette, LA, USA<\/p>\n<p>Regis Prograis vs Kiryl Relikh<br \/>\nNonito Donaire vs Stephon Young<br \/>\n18 May &#8211; The SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland<br \/>\nJosh Taylor vs Ivan Baranchyk<br \/>\nNaoya Inoue vs Emmanuel Rodriguez<br \/>\n15 June &#8211; Arena Riga, Riga, Latvia<\/p>\n<p>Mairis Briedis vs Krzysztof Glowacki<br \/>\nYunier Dorticos vs Andrew Tabiti<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=79327\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=79327\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-79305 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Writers250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Writers250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Writers250-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] WBC Diamond Champion Regis Prograis talked legacy and Kiryl Relikh at the final press conference in Lafayette, Louisiana ahead of the WBSS super-lightweight semi-final at the Cajundome on Saturday. \u201cLegacy never dies. This will be here way when I\u2019m just ashes and gone,\u201d Prograis told local TV Station, KATC, at the press conference. \u201cThat\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20019],"class_list":["post-79876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-regis-prograis-isnt-pulling-any-punches-in-his-comments-about-kiryl-relikh-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79876","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=79876"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}