Chris Kongo is promising to bring the “fireworks” to the O2 in Greenwich later this month – and reiterated his desire to fight at The Den.
Bermondsey’s ‘2Slick’ Kongo, 31, fights for the first time in fourteen months when he takes on unbeaten Albanian Florian Marku in a welterweight showdown.
Kongo is aiming to get back to winning ways after losing a majority points decision to Ekow Essuman for British, European and Commonwealth titles in Manchester last March.
Kongo is confident ahead of his return closer to home.
“I’ve boxed there before. It’s good I’ve got the experience of boxing there and I’m ready to bring fireworks,” Kongo told Millwall’s media at The Den ahead of the Lions’ 1-0 win over Watford last weekend.
“Everybody tells me when they come to watch me fight it’s exciting. I’m looking to do it all over again on the 31st of March.
“We all know Marku is a come-forward kind of fighter. He’s going to bring it, but we all know I can bring it, too. I can go deep in there in the trenches like I did in my last fight.
“Like I said, I always bring fireworks, and I’m bringing fireworks for sure on the 31st.”
Kongo is set to have a large Millwall contingent in the crowd.
He said: “We’re going to see hundreds of them coming. It was great I was able to get the Millwall community and the support some tickets, get a little discount for them so they could all come.
“Make sure you get your tickets and get down there, it’s going to be fireworks.”
Kongo, who is a Millwall Community Trust ambassador, delivered a boxing session at The Lions Centre before last Saturday’s game.
He hopes he is giving youngsters from the area someone to look up to and a career to aspire to.
Kongo said: “It’s great. I’ve always been at every community day for however long now and I’ll continue to come. Hopefully we can do more community days, not just on the second of March, and we continue to grow.
“I was part of it (when he was younger) but the thing is there was no one to look up to. Now I’m here, I’m at a big stage of my career and hopefully these kids can look up to me and see that we come from the same sort of area. It’s lovely for them.
“I want to put everything into it.”
Asked what the future will hold if he beats Marku, Kongo replied: “The future holds another boxing show coming back to The Den.”