Mitchell likely to face Katsidis in Australia – News
February 24th, 2010
By Scott Gilfoid: It’s looking like number #1 World Boxing Organization lightweight contender Kevin Mitchell (31-0, 23 KO’s) will be having to go to Australia to face World Boxing Organization lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis (26-2, 21 KO’s), according to the Mirror. This is bad news for the 25-year-old Mitchell, because he was hoping to have Katsidis brought to the UK where he could fight in front of a large home crowd. Instead, it’s looking like Mitchell will have to go fight in Katsidis’ neck of the woods where Mitchell will have to fight well to win a decision.
However, Mitchell didn’t look all that impressive in beating Breidis Prescott by a 12 round decision last December. Mitchell ran most of the right and mainly threw jabs and pot shots. Prescott landed the harder shots and even thought he missed a lot of punches, I think he won the majority of the rounds.
Mitchell rarely tried to mix it up with Prescott, perhaps knowing he might suffer the same fate as fellow countryman Amir Khan, who was knocked out in the 1st round by Prescott in 2008. Katsidis hits hard, and is an excellent pressure fighter. I see him easily beating Mitchell as long as Katsidis can catch up to him. Mitchell will probably be running all night long trying to avoid Katsidis’ powerful shots.
The Australian will probably be booing their heads off at all Mitchell’s running, but just as long as the judges get the scores right this time that’s all that matters. I see Katsidis either brutally knocking Mitchell out, if Mitchell actually engages him instead of running, or Katsidis will win by a lopsided 12 round decision. In other words, I don’t see the fight being at all close.
Katsidis has too much talent for the likes of Mitchell. I like Mitchell as a fighter, but I see him more as a local fighter rather than a top world contender. I think he would European contender for the Euro crown. Maybe not necessarily the Euro lightweight champion, but a good number #3 or #4 guy.
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@nick griffin
and your the exact reason why every hate us brits you rascist fool.
@michael-im only staten ths facts that earl olmost stopped katsidis so mitchel always has a chance as he hits way harder.i am british but im from scotland so im not anti australian.im a huge fan off both fighters and there styles,buut thers no way katsidis will stop mitchel,mitchel has a steel chin,i m 50/50 on the fight and think it could go eaither way.
shakeeb ! is it just because khan is also a pak1! he got knocked out end of story !
Don@london: Spot on mate. Shakib is so far up Khan’s arse it’s ridiculous.
Shakeeb Nawaz= Khan bumsucker
Go away, if Mitchell was asian you would be saying he’d beat David Haye and both the Klitschko brothers in the same round!
Mitchell is 31-0 (23 KO) – Only one of his last nine fights have gone the distance and that was the virtual shut-out against Prescott.
Mitchell never looks close to losing, can bang, counter and move. Katsidis needs the home advantage because he will get schooled by Mitchell.
i was at the Mitchell Prescot fight and Mithchell boxed really well and fought a great fight,you really don’t like british fighters do you Scott,when are you gona start giving credit where credit is due or do you do it just to get a response!!
Mitchell hasnt got the xfactor. He is lucky khan moved up in weight because he would of put mitchell on his bum. He fought prescott who was already damaged goods and not the fighter he was when he fought khan, a hydrated khan would of dispatched Prescott better than what mitchell did.
Tough fight for Mitchell, very tough but this is world championship level and fights shouldnt really come easy.
I always worried that Mitchell was too eager to go toe to toe with his opponants but he was very discaplined against Prescott and used his boxing skills to win the fight (EASILY SCOTT). This level of discapline is pretty much vital fighting at world level so hopefully Kevin will use his brain as much as his heart against Katlitter.
Scott!!
Why are you writing about someone else and not just me?
I don’t want to share you with anyone else.
Scott Sweetie,my back is getting better now,you really shouldn’t be so rough with me!!
See you later Honeybuns!
Fact 1-mitchel landed nearly double the amount of shots as prescott.
Fact 2-mitchel has an iron chin,has never been down pro or amatuer so would never had suffered the same fate as khan,
Fact 3-if earl can nearly stop katsidis who isnt even ranked in the top 10 in britain then im sure mitchel has every chance of winnen.
Fact 4-when an american fighter run al fight(direll)he looks as gs as fmj but when british fighter do it the shoul loose and its boren.
Mr Gilford do us all a favour and stop writing about British fighter because its quite obvious u DONT HAVE A CLUE.
i really think this writer writes these articles to wind everyone up. Mitchell beat prescott with ease!!! i think he can beat katsidis too. Katsidis is the lesser of the light weltetweight crop.
If this was Andre Dirrel we were taqlking about schooling presscott you be saying it was the greatest counter punching you have ever seen, but becasue its mitchell and hes english you seem to think he ran all night
i cant help but laugh at the articles this clown produces
I’l join that petition to get this guy banned, absolute idiot.
will be a great fight but if in australia cant see mitchell winning unless he gets a knockout,.
You are dumb, Mitchell took Prescott to school!
Katsidis should win this fight convincingly as he has power and speed, i dont think Mitchell has really proved himself at light weight, the Prescott fight was a good performance, but Katsidis will be a totally diffrent proposition especially if it happens in Australia, The Great takes this all day long.
Scott Gilfoid?
Mate you think prescott beat mitchell? you thought mitchell was running all night, do you know what boxing actually is?
You know wot all the writers here have no clue about boxing, From today I officially stop visiting this website, later guys!
Id love to meet you scott so i could put my english fist down your stupid mouth.
Andre Direll = a cross between sugar ray robinson/ leanard, muhammed ali and floyd mayweather jr
yet david haye and kevin mitchell apparently run away from their opponents.
what’s your problem pal?
mitchell is a good fighter so is katsidis. i think this will be a great fight. both fighters come to win & dont seem to afraid to go toe to toe.
Same old same old. So this tw*t thinks a British fighter will only ever be good enough to be a top 5 European contender. What a shocker. He’s (the author of this article) already deleted this comment once. Everyone knows this writer talks utter garbage. Do us a favour Scott: go eat a condom full of razor blades.
Did you watch the Mitchell vrs. Prescott fight?!?!?!? Mitchell outboxed and otsmarted him from start to finish, are you really blaiming him for not going toe-to-toe with one of the hardest hitters in the division?
look scott i know Mitchell kisses opponents on the cheek … but dont get too excited
BS. mitchell schooled prescott and ktfo his last opponent in style. katsidis is a very good boxer but i think mitchell is a pretty complete package. good speed, power, movement, chin and excellent skills. anything can happen but to degrade mitchell’s acheivements is small-minded and petty and indictive of the writer having a weng
Mitchell fought the perfect fight against Prescott and won pretty much every round.
Funny, because the judges had Mitchell beating Prescott by a virtual shut-out.