“I’m the best middleweight in the world right now,” Hernandez said. “My hunger for glory, my desire to be champion and win every title, that’s something I don’t see in the rest of the division. Everyone seems to arrive, get the title, and settle. Not me. I’m coming to get the title, keep it, and fight the best. Lately, nobody in my weight class wants to face the best.”

Training camp in Orlando has allowed Hernandez to work alongside fellow Cuban contender Yoenis Tellez while correcting mistakes he identified in his bouts with Gausha and Kyrone Davis.

“I’ve focused on polishing the few mistakes I made against Terrell Gausha and Kyrone Davis,” Hernandez said. “We’re improving, and that’s what we’re focusing on in this camp. I’m just working twice as hard as I did before my last fight to reach my goal.”

Veron questioned Hernandez’s style by describing him as “very amateur,” comments the Cuban dismissed ahead of their meeting.

“Veron says that I am still a ‘very amateur’ boxer,” Hernandez said. “He thinks that fighting me is like fighting an amateur. He’s talking too much. It’s one thing to call the devil, another to see him arrive. I see him saying he’ll put me in situations no one has put me in before, and I hope he’s not one of those talkers who doesn’t back up their words inside the ring.

“I’m going all out, I’m coming to win. And if he says he’s going to come forward in the ring, he’ll have to have more drive than me. And for him to have more drive than me, we’ll have to see it to believe it.”

A victory over the experienced Argentine would move Hernandez another step closer to a world title shot and give additional weight to his claim that he belongs at the top of the middleweight division.