By Ryan Burton

There certainly isn't any love lost between Gabriel Rosado (23-9) and Willie Monroe Jr. (20-2).  The two fighters exchanged words on their August 29th media conference call to promote their September 17th fight. 

The fight will serve as the co-featured bout of the evening underneath the Canelo Alvarez-Liam Smith WBO welterweight championship fight in the main event.  The card will be distributed by HBO pay-per-view.

The 30-year-old Rosado felt that Monroe lost touch with reality with some of his comments on the conference call and that he thinks he's a bigger deal than he really is. He made a point to say that WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders would at least entertain a fight with Gabriel Rosado while the champion wouldn't even entertain the idea of a fight against Saunders.

"It is a fight where I am focused. I know what is on the line. I am ready. I just kinda got upset with Willie because of how he was talking. He was talking like with Billy Joe Saunders he at least talked contract with us where they wanted no parts of Willie so I just told him that I thought he was just hyping himself and he's nothing special. That is just how I feel," Rosado stated.

Rosado epitomizes the definition of a blood and guts warrior.  After the exchange of words, Rosado wants nothing more than to destroy Monroe.

In this particular case a win alone won't satisfy Rosado.

"I really don't go into a fight disliking my opponent personally. It's not anything like a hate thing but I really don't like Willie. I really don't. Like I want to hurt him. It's a fight where I want to win but I really want to hurt this guy. I want to punish him," Rosado told BoxingScene.com.

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