Marcos Maidana, Robert Guerrero set to face each other in August – Boxing news
American professional boxer Robert Joseph Guerrero will take on Argentina’s professional light welterweight boxer Marcos Maidana for their 12-round competitive bout for the WBA Light Welterweight tile on August 27, 2011 at the HP Pavilion Arena in San Jose,
California.
Negotiations with other lightweights could not go through because Robert ‘The Ghost’ Guerrero could not convince anyone to go into the ring with him.
The former IBF Super Featherweight champion, Guerrero said, “I was having big trouble trying to get anyone to fight me after I beat Katsidis. Boxing managers and promoters are scared because they know they're really rolling the dice every time they put their
fighters in the ring with me. But thank god Maidana will fight anyone, anywhere. This is going to be a war. We're bringing a great fight to San Jose.”
The former two-time IBF champion, Guerrero is returning to the ring after earning unanimous points decision over Michael Katsidis that brought him the interim WBO and WBA 135-pound lightweight titles on April 9, 2011 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
in Las Vegas.
The 28-year-old Guerrero has to win over Marcos ‘El Chino’ Maidana in an effort to claim his sixth world label in four weight divisions.
It is expected that if Guerrero wins this contest over Maidana, his next opponent will be the winner of the July 23, 2011 Las Vegas fight between Amir Khan and Zab Judah.
Guerrero told the press on Monday after confirmation of the signed fight contract by Golden Boy Promotions chief Richard Schaefer that he thinks it is the biggest and most dangerous fight of his career.
Adding to this, Guerrero believes his opponent is a hard hitter. He said he has fabulous punching power and tries to dominate.
Hopefully, the fight will be interesting and fascinating to watch. Let’s see who dominates whom on the day.
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