By Charmaine Austin, Staff ReporterTHE cold English weather is what Jamaica's welterweight fighter Earl 'Boom Boom' Foskin's most worried about and not champion James Hare who he will challenge in Liverpool, England for the Commonwealth title on Saturday.
"I'm ready for the fight. The only thing I'm concerned about is the weather which I hear is very cold up there right now," said the 33 year-old fighter prior to his departure for England yesterday evening along with manager Willie Yap.
Although Foskin has left four days ahead of the encounter, it is still enough time to get acclimatised to the present 7 degrees C temperature in Liverpool but he says he will "tough it out" as he has to win the fight.
"I don't take my opponent lightly but I have to win this fight. I have been training hard and after 16 years I feel it is time to get what I deserve," he said.
The Jamaican fighter has trimmed down to a comfortable 151 lbs and will match his 16-1-3 record against Hare's unblemished 20 win-record, nine of which were by way of knockout.
Scottish Hare created a stir in world boxing when he knocked out world-ranked Australian Julian Holland in April.
Foskin's father Vincent, his girlfriend Yasmine Taylor, a relative Desroy Brown and the Jamaica Boxing Board of Control's treasurer Vin Edwards saw him off at the airport but it was his 9 year-old son Hakeem who was most confident of the fighter returning home victorious.
"Daddy is going to win. I asked him if he could and he said he will so I took his word for it," young Foskin said.
