By WBO Heavyweight Champion Shannon Briggs

First of all I know Sultan didn't even say those things. He's not much of a talker and he's a classy guy. I guess his twin promoters Leon and Sampson known in the boxing world as Dumb and Dumber are trying to stir up some hype. That's the job of the promoters so I understand.

I fought George Foreman twelve rounds with a broken nose, I fought Lennox Lewis with a broken hand and I fight every fight with asthma. My Doctor, the Florida Commission Doctor and the promoters Doctor all said with aspirated pneumonia I couldn't fight at this time. I argued with Dr. Woolf and with my manager, Scott Hirsch because I wanted to fight even with pneumonia.

It will only take me a few more weeks to beat this pneumonia and a few rounds to knockout Iggy. If one of the respected champions I fought like Foreman, Lewis, Mercer or even Liakhovich said that I'd take it seriously. But seriously Iggy is not in my league and I'm going to get healthy and make him eat his promoters words.