If Erislandy Lara found time to heal the wounds from his controversial decision loss against Paul Williams, Williams’ recent statements about the fight likely won’t please the Miami resident and junior-middleweight contender.

In a conference call last week to hype his bout against Nobuhiro Ishida on Saturday night, Williams discredited Lara’s performance when they fought last September. Although many thought Lara won the fight, two judges scored the fight for Williams and the third had it a draw.

“He didn’t get any fame and glory for winning that fight,” Williams said. “All he got is me having a bad night.”

Moreover, Williams (40-2, 27 knockouts) said he won’t give Lara a rematch despite the outcry from the public on the scoring. The highly disputed verdict also resulted in the suspension of the bout’s three New Jersey-based judges.

“If he had gone out and gotten a title, then I would definitely like to fight him again,” Williams said.

Instead, Williams, a former welterweight world champion, will face the Ishida, 36, in a scheduled 12-round junior-middleweight bout in Corpus Christi, Texas. Ishida (24-6-2, 9 KOs) has fought most of his career in his native Japan with only one previous U.S. ring appearance, when he stopped James Kirkland in one round last year.

“I have to give him his props for that,” Williams said. “He did what not a lot of guys have been able to do. Coming up on [Saturday], I know he’s in the best shape and he’s going to try and go out and repeat that again.”

Once considered among the sport’s 10 best pound-for-pound fighters, Williams, 30, has far from resembled that lofty recognition in his previous two bouts. Before the disputed win against Lara, Williams suffered a second-round knockout loss against Sergio Martinez in November 2010.

“They will always try to write you off, but I will show them that I’m not done,” Williams said. “Every time I get into the ring, I try and make a statement.”

Saturday’s Williams-Ishida bout will be televised by Showtime. The telecast also will feature Tallahassee resident Tavoris Cloud’s third defense of his International Boxing Federation light-heavyweight title against Spain’s Gabriel Campillo.

Cloud (23-0, 19 KOs) values the importance of retaining his sanctioning body title as a tool to land him future marquee bouts.

“It’s like I’m defending my house, and I’ve got thieves trying to break in,” said Cloud, who trained for the fight at Canino’s Boxing Gym in Dania Beach. “I’ve gotten pretty good at it. I can’t put into words what I plan to do to my opponent.’’

Diplomat card

The light local boxing calendar so far this year will have its second show on March 2.

Hollywood resident and rising welterweight prospect Ed Paredes will fight veteran Cosme Rivera in a card at the Westin Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood. The show also will include a bout between former world junior-lightweight and lightweight champion Joan Guzman of the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico’s Jesus Pabon.

South Florida’s only other show of the year also was at the Westin Diplomat on Jan. 7. Paredes fought on the card and stopped Michael Losada in three rounds.