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Jordan Gill explains how fight vs. Zelfa Barrett sets up potential world title bout

Jordan Gill explains how fight vs. Zelfa Barrett sets up potential world title boutMatchroom Boxing

Jordan Gill and Zelfa Barrett will square off in the ring on April 13, live on DAZN.

The super-featherweights are on a collision course after both ended 2023 with a victory. Gill defeated Michael Conlan by seventh-round stoppage in December while Barrett won by points against Costin Ion a month earlier.

Now both fighters look to continue their momentum into 2024, and Gill says there could be bigger and better things ahead for the winner.

"It’s just a fight, and one that I’m excited for, off the back of the Conlan fight it’s more interesting and we’ve not had a bad reaction for this fight, everyone is excited for it, and so am I," Gill said in a press conference on Tuesday.

"To be the best you have to beat the best. So, to have a claim to a world title you have to go through these fights.

"Zelfa is a very good fighter, he wants a world title shot and he’s probably at the front of the queue, so I have to beat him to leapfrog him.

"That’s why we’re here and we said yes to the fight, so I am looking forward to it."

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