And yet another fight rolls in for my 27th birthday.
34-year old Marco Antonio Barrera will make his way to the United Kingdom to face 22-year old Amir Khan on March 14 in one of the first quarter's more interesting fights, I think.
What makes it interesting? How about a list? I like lists.
- It shows that Khan's handlers have as much confidence as the fighter himself still exudes.
- Freddie Roach has been working with Khan. Don't forget that Freddie knows Barrera very well.
- Barrera, as we talked about in comments of a different post the other day, is certainly past his prime, but right now I can't classify him as "shot." He might be. He might not be.
- Khan's rotten beard is always a risk, and I wager Barrera at 50 will hit a hell of a lot harder than Willie Limond.
- In some ways, it could be seen as sort of a revenge fight for Barrera's essential retiring of Prince Naseem Hamed. You can market it that way, anyway. Hamed could even be front row ringside.
It's not a huge marquee fight, really, but I think it could be a good one and tell us quite a bit about Amir Khan. I really like this one.