“I tell people all the time I don’t make predictions. I made a prediction and a hard one to live up to. I said I wasn’t leaving New York without this belt and I’m not leaving New York without this belt.

“I knew he was going to be accurate.  The game plan for me was to be accurate from the outside and show we could beat him without roughing him up on the ropes.

“This title means a lot to me.  It meant a lot to boxing and I wanted to be a part of that.

“He tried to outhustle me, mostly at the end of the rounds.  He did a tremendous job.

“There was some things missing tonight and those aren’t going to be there in the next one.

“It wasn’t’ necessarily about making it wild.  My dad wanted me to stay consistent with the body work and stay consistent with the pressure.”