Greg Leon: So you know who you're going to be facing in the final, what did you think about Josh Taylor's victory over Ivan Baranchyk? Regis Prograis: "It was a good exciting fight, he showed a lot of heart. He got cut and he showed he could take a punch, but I seen a whole lot of holes. He actually got dropped because his glove touched the canvas from a punch and they didn't count it and he just got hit a lot. I told him bro, 'you can't get hit like that from me.' I'm not (Ivan) Barnachyk, I'm going to vary up my punches and I'm a way sharper puncher, I think I'm a way harder puncher than Baranchyk and he got hit with a lot of stuff, and I'm a totally different monster. He better go to the gym and fix all that shit they did because I'm different. He said the same thing too, he said he got hit more than he wanted to go and he's got go to go to the gym and fix some things. I'm glad I'm fighting him, when we went to Moscow I knew it was him I was going to be fighting once we passed our opposition first and that's just how it happened, so now it's down to just me and Taylor."

 

GL: Are you anticipating that this is going to be the most difficult fight you'll have at 140 pounds?

 

RP: "I think so. I do, I think so. Of course I don't think it's going to be too much of a problem, because I don't see myself ever losing. But I think this way about all my opponents and every time I go into camp for a fight, I train like it's going to be the most difficult fight ever. I train hard and get the job done kind of easy, so yes, I am expecting that this going to be the toughest fight of my career."

 

GL: Where do you want the fight to take place?

 

RP: "Somewhere neutral. I know I got on TV and talked shit and said I'd bring the fight to Scotland, but that's definitely not true. I think it should be somewhere neutral. It doesn't have to be in my hometown, it doesn't have to be in his hometown. Somewhere neutral, maybe Los Angeles, Vegas or New York, we'll see. I definitely don't think I should go to Scotland, we're both champions and I'm the number one seed so I definitely don't got to go to him and he doesn't have to come to me in New Orlenas. We'll make it somewhere neutral."

 

GL: Is there anything about him that concerns you at all?

 

RP: "Concerns me? No, not at all, but he can fight a little dirty at times. He hit Barnachyk when Baranchyk was clinching on the inside, he threw his shoulder up and hit him right after that, so something like that, but as far as his style, he's tall, long and fast, but I have the advantages in everything. I feel like I'm stronger, faster, slicker and my defense is way more superior. I just feel like I'm the superior fighter."

 

GL: When will the fight take place?

 

RP: "We don't know yet, there's no telling. Maybe in October or something like that."

 

GL: Are you in your prime right now? Is this as good as you can get or do you feel you're improving with every fight?

 

RP: "I'm improving fight by fight dawg, every fight I'm getting better and better. In my last fight I didn't get hit. Relikh was a world champion that had never been stopped and barely lost a fight and he couldn't land a glove on me besides hitting me after the bell. Everything else, he couldn't touch me. That just shows you that I'm getting better and better. People were saying I couldn't be offensive enough, or I ain't have the power, but everything they say I can't do, I show them I can when I get into the ring. I'm getting better and better and people haven't seen what I really got yet because the heart hasn't had to come out. I hope Josh Taylor can bring it out, because you haven't really seen me push myself. You haven't seen the dog come out of me. Maybe it will in this fight and I think it's going to be a helluva fight."

 

GL: Closing thoughts for the fans.

 

RP: "Man, first off, I'm so glad I'm in the World Boxing Super Series. It's all about the best fighting the best, and for me that's what boxing is all about. It's about the best fighting the best. You don't get this in boxing. When was the last time you got the number one and number two guys in a division fighting each other? You don't get that in divisions no more. Two undefeated champions, who are both bad motherf**kers, you just don't get that. You don't got that with the heavyweights, you don't got that with the welterweights, you don't got that with Lomachenko or Tank Davis. Me and Josh Taylor are two undefeated champions in our primes, number one and number two and we're fighting each other. This is a legacy fight and it's a huge fight. This is like a major fight and you don't get that because promoters or politics f**k up a lot of things, but with me and him you've got it. This should be a PPV fight and y'all got it coming to you next."