Liam Paro

It was, it was hard.

You know what I mean?

No excuses.

I still felt good on fight night, but yeah, from there, that was kind of when we made the decision, it's time to go up.

You know, I was 140 pounds, 63 and a half from 18 years old when I debuted as a pro to, uh, just two years ago, 28.

Wow.

So, um, your body matures, you get that man strength and yeah.

I just, yeah, when my walk-around weight was going from 73 up to the 76s to now 78, I was like, it needs to do its thing.

I need to listen to it.

Look, the first four rounds were really comfortable.

I remember going back to the corner and my coach, Alfredo Carlos, like, we're doing this easy.

And I thought the same.

Like, man, this is, you know, we fell asleep in there.

And, look, I've got to give credit to Hitchens.

He changed up.

And, yeah, like I said, I kind of fell asleep in there.

But...

It was more, that was no excuse.

Like I said, he was just a better man on the night.

And unfortunately a bad night now offers very visual to the public eye.