Burns still looking for an opponent for March 10th defense in Scotland
December 31st, 2011
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO interim lightweight champion Ricky Burns (33-2, 9 KO’s) is still looking for an opponent for his first fight defending his interim strap on March 10th at the Braehead Arena in Glascow, Scotland. Burns, 28, was supposed to be facing the unranked Anthony Crolla next instead of an actual top 15 contender but this little mismatch won’t be going through according to the latest boxing news.
I’d like to see Burns face Kevin Mitchell, Robert Guerrero or Jorge Linares next and I can see all three of those guys knocking him out. However, I’m not hopeful that Burns will be fighting any of those guys anytime soon if ever.
Burns won the WBO interim title recently in a life and death fight against Michael Kataidis last month in a fight where Burns was outworked and outlanded by the hard hitting Katsidis.
However, the judges gave the fight to Burns for some reason. Having seen the fight several times, the best I could give Burns was three rounds. He looked awful. Burns moved up in weight after a disappointing short run as the WBO super featherweight champion from September 2010 to September 2011. During that time, Burns fought only one quality fighter the weight drained Roman Martinez.
After winning a difficult fight against Martinez in Scotland, Burns followed it with three title defenses against weaker opposition. Finally when a mouth-watering fight was on the horizon with Burns set to face unbeaten #1 contender Adrien Broner, Burns suddenly vacated his title and moved up in weight to fight in the lightweight division.
Burns may be able to pick up the WBO belt without even having to fight for it if the current champion Juan Manuel Marquez vacates the belt in 2012 to move up in weight. One would hope that Burns won’t follow the same pattern that he had at super featherweight and fight little known opposition that pose no threat to beating him.
Broner is already talking about moving up in weight, so hopefully Burns won’t have weight problems again and vacate this belt too.
13 Responses to “Burns still looking for an opponent for March 10th defense in Scotland”
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This fella knows nothing about boxing
Whatever you idiot. You dont have a clue min.
GB: What’s Scott’s agenda?
a] Does he just enjoy winding us up?
b] Loves to be hated?
c] Or can he turn round to boxing news 24 and say ‘My articles get the most comments so they’ve got to be better than the other punters on this
slot?
Help us out here before we have to send for the guys in white coats to cart this sod off to the ‘Loony Bin’.
Clearly Scott is writing these articles with a hidden agenda – Burns had an excellent night against Katsidis and has proved his doubters wrong time and time again
when i first heard about burns fighting Katsidis i thought katsidis would stop him, but Ricky made a beleiver out of me, he beat him in every department. I d like to see Ricky fight Kevin Mitchel next i think it would be a great fight and Ricky would win it with his superior fitness and mental strength.
Super Zab wants a piece of Burns make it happen.
Scott what are you smoking! Even Katsidis said he lost clearly.
Nice name boxing legnad
Like dirells top 15 contender lol
broner would have knocked out burns within 3 rounds
Burns completely destroyed Katsidis. It wasn’t even close, he won in every aspect of the fight. There’s no way u have seen the fight given the bull sh*t u have written. And Burns would beat guys like Kevin Mitchell in his sleep!!!
“burns was outworked and outlanded by the hard hitting Katsidis”
compubox punch stats:
Ricky burns: thrown-1012 Landed-221
Micheal Katsidis: thrown-963 Landed-196
way to go gilfoid!
broner = joke. Burns = champ