After compiling a 25-5 amateur career and a handful of titles, Brooklyn-born boxer Delen Parsley (4-0 with 2 KOs) will see his professional journey continue on March 29th when he takes on David Lopez (3-4) in a six-round light middleweight match-up. The bout is part of Dibella Entertainment's broadway boxing series. In this exclusive Boxingtalk interview, the young gun speaks out on his career and more.

Benny Henderson Jr: What inspired you to want to become a fighter?
 
Delen Parsley: My Dad, I came from a fighting family so I naturally fell into it.
 
BH: Who are some of the fighters that you look up to past and present?
 
DP: Jersey Joe Walcott [world heavyweight champion 1951-1952, robbed vs. Joe Louis in 1947] was one of my favorites; I would have to say that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is one of my recent favorites. Joe Louis, I wasn’t a big [Muhammad] Ali fan.
 
BH: You are not a big Ali fan but you are a fan of Floyd Mayweather? That sounds funny in some ways because were both talented fighters and very outspoken.
 
DP: For me, Ali talked a lot and he was good for his era, but I don’t feel that he was as technically sound as Mayweather is.
 
BH: When people read this you are going to have some fans and you are going to have some haters but that is what publicity I all about.  (Both Laugh)
 
DP: Oh yes, not everybody is going to like you.
 
BH: Give the readers a little bit of your background as far as your amateur career is concerned.
 
DP: My amateur wasn’t that long, growing up I was in and out of boxing, I wanted to try new things. But I got serious about boxing at the age of thirteen. I had thirty amateur fights, I was 25-5.
 
BH: Some people harp on fighters not having a solid long amateur career behind them. Do you feel your amateur career was solid enough to be a top competitor in the professional ranks?
 
DP: Yes definitely, because I have been in the gym since I was eight. I feel if you have a long amateur career, you leave too much in the amateurs. That is why not too many amateurs made great pros; I feel like I have been around boxing so long and been in the ring with great champions and I have got the fundamentals down.  I have learned more in the pros than I ever did as an amateur, I always fought more like a pro. I have never been one to throw pitter patter flurries, I throw good solid technical fights.
 
BH: As far as the one who have not seen you in action, how would you describe your style?
 
DP: I am more of boxer/puncher, I can box my ass off, I am a very decent puncher and I am tall. I can fight inside and outside, I feel like I am a well rounded fighter.
 
BH: Why should a fight fan want to come see a Delen Parsley fight?
 
DP: Well because they can expect to see good boxing, I am in there to make it an exciting fight. I am a tall fighter, I am smart, I am not going to go out there like Paul Williams and throw a million punches and have no defense what so ever. I will go out there and put on a show, I will be crafty. I will use my jab, slip a lot and I can punch.
 
BH: You have your fifth professional fight coming up the twenty-ninth, you are fighting a cat by the name of David Lopez, do you know anything about this guy you are fighting?
 
DP: I know he is a southpaw, he likes to wait a lot, but that is really I know all about him.
 
BH: In closing is there anything you would like to say to the fight fans, your opponent or anybody in the fight world?
 
DP: To my opponent I really have nothing to say to him expect to bring you’re A game because I am brining mine. To the fight world look out for me, I feel that I am an impressive fighter and I am a fighter who fights with passion.
 
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Disclosure: Boxingtalk publisher Greg Leon is the current advisor to Zsolt Erdei, Sechew Powell, Allan Green, Delen Parsley Jr, J'Leon Love, Brian Mihtar and Luis Rosa. He has also advised Monte Barrett, Ishe Smith and Dmitriy Salita, as well as former world champions Vivian Harris, Carlos Hernandez, Steve Forbes and Verno Phillips.

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