So, we all have heard and read about the pound for pound king pounding the living lights off the former WBC lightweight champion. Big deal. Unless he beats the best i the division and unifies the belts he still will just be a great boxer in a very mixed and talented division. At least he proved himself that he can mix with the toughest of them and hoo-boy, his opponent was a very tough SOB. Hands down to that man.

So, where do he go from here? From what I read at various boxing sites he is going to fight that KO artist from Velenzuela. The date is set at Nov. 8 while the location, provided the Venezuelan can be green-lighted by the Nevada State Comission, is Las Vegas. That would be one hell of a fight, if the Venezuelan can hit the target. If not, it will be "Lethal Combination: Director's Cut".

Next up is the match of two old counter-punchers mixing it up to have a piece of that Pac-Man pie, Marquez-Casamayor at Sept. 13 in Las Vegas. It coincides with another lightweight match-up of Nate "I have three belts and you don't" Campbell and Joan "I will do a Mayweather on your a$$" Guzman. These will be the main course of September after that appetizer named Diaz-Katsidis in Sept. 6, a fight featuring two rising stars of the lightweight division. One man hits like a rock while the other is as sturdy a mountain. It promises a  very good fight.

All in all, it will be a division worth watching provided those match-ups deliver. If not, then there will always be that man whose name you already know and I have only mentioned once.

See you next post...

Johnny Sandwich