By Scott Gilfoid: WBO interim lightweight champion Ricky Burns (33-2, 9 KO’s) hasn’t even gotten past his next opponent former World Boxing Association (WBA) World lightweight champion Paulus Moses (28-1, 19 KO’s) and he’s already looking past him towards a hoped for summer bout against lightweight contender Kevin Mitchell (32-1, 24 KO’s).

Is this dumb or what? Burns will be lucky if he gets past the hard hitting and highly talented Moses, and yet Burns is talking about a fight with Mitchell. This is what I was afraid of when Burns picked up this minor title.

It looks as if it’s gone to his head and he’s starting to show signs of overconfidence. Burns said to thesun.co.uk “Both of us are promoted by Frank Warren so it is an easy fight for us to make. I would say the two of us are the best lightweights in Britain just now so it is a fight I would really want. When I beat Michael Katsidis, Mitchell was saying he would love the chance to fight me. They are talking about the venue being down in London or up here in Scotland.”

First of all, Burns didn’t beat Katsidis. Technically he did, but he didn’t beat that guy. That was one of those fights were a guy comes to a foreign country, fights his heart out, whips the home fighter, but has to leave a loser. Katsidis was the better fighter and deserved a lopsided points decision win on that night. As such, I have a mental asterisk next to Burns’ win over Katsidis and see it as a loss instead of a win.

As far as the best fighter in the UK bit goes, I guess I can agree with that. The pickings are mighty slim in the UK around that weight class. So I guess Mitchell and Burns are the best you got.

I think it’s a sad mistake for Burns to be looking past Moses because this guy is going to put a real hurting on Burns in front of his own home Scottish crowd on March 10th at the Braehead arena in Glascow, Scotland.