Portsmouth's Mark Chamberlain reacts after a stoppage win on Tyson Fury v Olesandr Usyk undercard in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia.
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00:00 Mark, another massive occasion in your career and you've come through this with flying colours.
00:06 Just talk us through your thoughts and feelings after what was a devastating victory.
00:10 I'll be honest with you, it happened so quick. I spent longer warming up in the changing rooms.
00:15 Yeah, it's crazy, like, it just doesn't seem real. It only felt like I was here a week ago fighting Gavin Gwynne.
00:22 Put on a dominant performance against him. Here we are, eight, nine weeks later, two camps back to back.
00:28 Picked up another title along the way. And yeah, I'm thankful for these opportunities.
00:35 You don't come around and dream of being on shows like this. It's happened to me twice, you know.
00:40 But, what do you know? It's crazy.
00:43 I mean, there's no secret of his excellency's, you know, sort of following and affection for you, really.
00:50 And as mentioned in the ring there again, I mean, there's one thing doing it on any stage, but this stage as well.
00:57 You know, what's this going to do for your career moving forward?
00:59 Yeah, it's massive. Obviously, his excellency loves me.
01:04 Just got to keep delivering and winning and keep him happy, I guess.
01:08 And I should hopefully be more than welcome back here again.
01:11 Yeah. I mean, two visits to Riyadh, second strap, this time the silver, international silver WBC.
01:18 Pushing up into the top ten of probably the WBC rankings now.
01:22 I mean, what's next and what's your vision moving forward?
01:25 What's next? Journey home for a week and then a nice holiday, sit in the sun.
01:30 Now, career-wise, hopefully back out, back in the summer.
01:35 But, listen, I'm just going to switch off for a couple of weeks now, get a bit of rest.
01:40 Get in touch with Frank and see what the plan is moving forward.
01:43 Yeah. I mean, it's great to be part of these events, but at the same time, it's probably,
01:48 the fact you're out here maybe prohibits the amount of following you can with, you know, just the cost and everything like that.
01:53 Would you like to be back home? What's the home you'd like to do?
01:56 I'd definitely like to fight back home in England, because obviously Riyadh isn't an hour drive to London, is it?
02:03 It's a lot of money to come over here and I understand people can't make it.
02:07 So, yeah, I would like to deliver for my home fans and have another home event in London.
02:12 There's one in September in Wembley, so who knows?
02:16 I mean, this division is fairly heavily stacked.
02:19 You look at some of the names in that WBC sort of top five,
02:23 have you got your eyes on anyone? I mean, have you, what's the sort of trajectory for you here now?
02:27 No names in particular. Big fights, so big fights only.
02:31 And just one final one, just a message for the Portsmouth following.
02:34 You know, you're doing Portsmouth proud here.
02:36 Not many sort of people from the city have been on this stage to this level.
02:41 So what's your message and how proud are you to sort of fly the flag for the city?
02:44 Just got much love for everyone back home.
02:46 Anyone that's messaged and tuned in tonight, thank you very much.
02:50 No doubt I'll see you all and catch up with everyone.