"I've worked hard to get where I am and I'm not about to let some 14-fight novice take that away from me, " said Johanneson, who has 24 wins from 26 fights.
And letme pay tribute to the soldiers, yours and ours, who again fight side by side in the plains of Afghanistan and the streets of Iraq, just as their forefathers fought side by side in the sands of Tunisia, on the beaches of Normandy and then on the bridges over the Rhine.