Jermell Charlo Believes He Doesn’t Get The Respect He Deserves

Jermell Charlo doesn’t think he gets the respect he deserves, as he points to the pound-for-pound ranks as evidence.

Charlo is the current IBF, WBA (Super), WBC, WBO, and The Ring light middleweight champion. As he is set to face Tim Tszyu on January 28, he explained during a virtual press conference that he doesn’t get the respect he deserves and hopes he can after this fight.

“What I possess is just undeniable,” Charlo said (via BoxingScene). “It’s just, I’m very thankful. I’m not even high-horsing me up. You know what I’m saying? I walk around like a normal person that’s very humble at the end of the day, cuz you know, we all come to fight, we all come to win. Much respect to any boxer getting in that ring. But I just know that I’m different. You know, I’m different from anybody that’s in that top pound-for-pound. You know, I don’t get the respect I deserve, and I keep that energy. You know what I mean?

“And I float that whole way through this, without me getting the respect that I deserve,” Charlo said. “That’s why I’m still in this game. I made millions of dollars in boxing, you know, multi-millions of dollars in boxing. So, we ain’t worried about that. We ain’t worried about a bunch of things. You know, what they got on they mind is completely not the same as what I got on my mind. Simple as that.”

Jermell Charlo is currently 35-1-1 as a pro and he avenged his only loss but in ESPN’s pound-for-pound rankings only six panelists voted him in the top-10. He believes that shows how little respect he gets.

“I guess in the pound-for-pound, you gotta be liked, you know?,” Charlo said. “And you gotta be on the other side of the river and the road. You gotta be with certain people. You know, I fought on ESPN when I was younger, coming up in the game, and made it to pay-per-views and made it to different shows and did so many amazing things outside of boxing. I don’t know what you need to do. I don’t know who need to be writing this stuff. But I’m almost guaranteed just those people got a personal way that they feel about me. And I’m not here to make you happy. I got a woman to make happy. I ain’t here to making y’all happy or making no boxing reporter happy.”

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