Lightweight Weekend “Our Thoughts”

On the slate this weekend is another set of Lightweight thrillers. After last weekends Breidis Prescott surprising first round upset knockout over Amir Khan what can possible happen on Saturday night. The Bling of the Ring was caught off guard as most the boxing world was with Prescott’s 54 second victory.

We thought this would be a walk in the park for Khan and another stepping stone up the lightweight ladder, Instead Khan and trainer Rubio now have to go back to the drawing board and continue to develop this youngster’s defensive skills, as his chin is desirable.

Last weekend we also saw The Baby Bull Juan Diaz get back on the winning track and capture the IBO Lightweight belt at the same time. Diaz looked good in a well executed fight plan, picking his spots to explode on the slower Michael Katsidis and coming away with a split decision victory.

Diaz was short changed by judge Glen Hamada who scored the fight 115 – 113 for Kasidis while the two other judges had it 115 – 133 and 116 -112 Diaz. Diamond Boxing “The Bling of the Ring” scored the fight 116 – 112 the way of Diaz. With the win Diaz is right back in the mix for a major title bout perhaps facing the winner of Saturday Casamayor – Marquez battle. Let’s move on to this weekends Lightweight match ups.

Joel Casamayor vs Juan Manuel Marquez

They are set and roaring to go “The Challenge” is on Saturday night September 13^th Joel Casamayor (36-3-1, 22 KOs) will take on Juan Manuel Marquez (48-4-1, 35 KOs) for the Ring Magazine World Lightweight title. Casamayor coming off his March 22^nd 10^th round knockout victory over Michael Katsidis will be challenged by the crafty veteran Marquez. Through the years of facing the likes of Pacquiao, Berrera and John in title bouts, Marquez will not be fazed by the scrappy Casamayor. This bout should not go to the cards look for the heavy favorite Marquez to take Casamayor out by TKO in the latter rounds. This bout will be broadcasted on HBO PPV starting at 9PM EST.

  Nate Campbell (32 -5-1, 25 KOs) vs Juan Guzman (28 -0, 17KOs)

Ok he is trained by Floyd Mayweather Senior, Ok now Guzman could not weight today missing the 135 pound limit, Ok now no titles will be on the line Saturday night. Does this play into the hands of the cagy Nate Campbell of course of course. We see this as a Nate Campbell victory and once again Campbell who this time is almost a two to one underdog will pull off the upset. Look for Campbell to score a unanimous decision victory in this one. And as Nate says it will be Guzman 28 and Nate referring to Campbell’s last victory over previously undefeated Juan Diaz.  The Campbell –Guzman bout will be shown on Showtime starting at 9PM EST.        

Super Knockout Special Prediction tomorrow night in the Timothy Bradley (22-0, 11KOs) – Edner Cherry (25-5-2, 12KOs) WBC light welterweight title bout. Edner Cheery will land one of his Cherry bombs to take out Champion Timothy Bradley and capture the belt. Cherry is listed as an 8 to 1 underdog.