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PHILIPSBURG--SUPER bantamweight Leon `Hurry Up’ Moore is in the best shape of his professional boxing career and is promising a convincing victory when he matches gloves with Dominican Manuel Gonzalez Garcia, in Eruption in Paradise at L.B. Scott Sports Auditorium on May 30. “I feel good and I am in the best shape of my life. I have trained very hard and there is no doubt that I would be winning this fight convincingly,†Moore said from his training camp in New York. “I know the importance of winning this one. A victory here would earn me a Top-10 rating. So for me it is a career-defining situation,†the Guyanese stated. Moore and Gonzalez will clash for the International Boxing Organization (IBO) Latin Super Bantamweight title. The 36-year-old Moore declared that when he wins against the Dominican, he intends to call out the champions in both the bantamweight and super bantamweight divisions.The May 30 fight was originally scheduled for April 4 but was recently postponed due to administrative issues. Moore acknowledged that the shift in dates had at first caused a disruption in his training but assured that he is now back on track. “It had caused a little setback but that is now behind me. My training scheduled has been revised and I am focused again.†Moore, who has been campaigning in the US over the last three years, is being trained by Dillon Carew at the Gleason’s Gym in New York. He fought three times in 2013 but only once last year. At 27, Gonzalez is nine years younger than Moore.
