Joe Cordina branded a ‘Diva’ by fellow world champion
Joe Cordina is one of the more low-key world champions from Britain but now he has been called a ‘diva’ by a fellow belt holder.
Joe Cordina is next out against Anthony Cacace on May 18 in Saudi Arabia on the undercard of the newly arranged undisputed fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk, when he will get the chance to add the IBO world super featherweight title to the IBF belt he won off Kenichi Ogawa in June 2022 and has since defected against Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov and Edward Vazquez.
O’Shaquie Foster is now the man who has taken aim at Cordina. He is the WBC super featherweight belt holder and he is due to defend that title against Abraham Nova on Friday night. He is already looking beyond that and would like fights with WBO junior lightweight champion Emanuel Navarrete, WBA champ Lamont Roach, or current IBF king Cordina.
Speaking to Boxing Scene, he has outlined which of those he thinks is most likely to happen.
“Lamont Roach is the more makeable fight than Cordina. Cordina, he wanna be more of a diva. They had plenty of chances to make their pitch to me for the fight. And then they go to the Internet and say, ‘Oh, he priced himself out.’ We never even negotiated a fight with them guys. Like, we never even talked numbers or nothing like that. So, I don’t know what types of games they be playing and I honestly don’t trust ‘em.”
He then said he would be ready to accept as soon as a decent offer came in.
“You know, so if it come across my table, a actual offer or we send them an offer, and it’s real, I’m wit’ it. I’ll fight him next. I definitely got something for him, for sure. But I feel Roach is more of a real fighter. He not tryin’ to babysit the belt. That’s what Cordina doin’ to me. I feel like him and Eddie Hearn and them, they tryin’ to babysit it and get as much [money] before he lose. … But I’m ready for any one of them that can be next.”
Should Cordina want a second unification, then, it seems one is ready and waiting to be made should both men get through their next fights, while fellow Brit and recent British and Commonwealth super-featherweight title winner Reece Bellotti also waits in the wings.