By Keith Idec

Curtis Stevens isn’t impressed with Hassan N’Dam’s resume or the former interim WBO middleweight champion’s style.

“Looking at his tapes, he didn’t really fight no one besides ‘Kid Chocolate,’ ” Stevens told BoxingScene.com, referring to N’Dam’s October 2012 championship fight against Peter Quillin at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. “Even in his last fight, against an old man [37-year-old Colombian Fulgencio Zuniga], how could he go [10] rounds with this guy? He wasn’t too spectacular. He’s supposed to get [Zuniga] out of there. But every fight is different. Come [Wednesday night], he’s going to be in there with a wrecking machine.”

Brooklyn’s Stevens (27-4, 20 KOs) is scheduled to face France’s N’Dam (30-1, 18 KOs) in an ESPN2 main event Wednesday night at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. The winner of their IBF middleweight elimination match will become the mandatory challenger for the victor of an Oct. 8 middleweight championship bout between IBF title-holder Sam Soliman (44-11, 18 KOs, 1 NC) and former undisputed middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (32-4-1, 20 KOs) in Biloxi, Miss.

The 30-year-old N’Dam is a slight favorite over Stevens, even though Quillin (31-0, 22 KOs) dropped the Cameroon-born boxer six times during N’Dam’s last title fight – twice apiece in the fourth, sixth and 12th rounds.

“I don’t believe ‘Kid Chocolate’ is a big puncher,” Stevens, 29, said. “He put [N’Dam] down six times, but he kept letting him get back up. I put you down, I’m putting your ass out.”

Stevens expects N’Dam to “run” once the bell rings in the main event of an ESPN2 telecast scheduled to start at 9 p.m. ET.

“What I noticed about him is he doesn’t sit down on his shots,” Stevens said. “He throws a lot of ‘stay-away-from-me’ shots. He looks to score and move. He has an Olympic style of fighting. He’s not trying to hurt you. He’s just trying to get off on you and stay away. He slips, slides, backs up, holds, tries to score and get out. That’s not going to work with me.”

Keith Idec covers boxing for The Record and Herald News, of Woodland Park, N.J., and BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.