Robert Guerrero moves up two divisions to face Aydin on July 28th

By Boxing News - 06/27/2012 - Comments

Image: Robert Guerrero moves up two divisions to face Aydin on July 28thBy Jason Kim: Former two division world champion Robert Guerrero (29-1-1, 18 KO’s) will be taking a risky fight against unbeaten welterweight contender Selcuk Aydin (23-0, 17 KO’s) next month on July 28th for the interim WBC welterweight title at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California.

Guerrero, 29, is skipping two entire divisions in order to fight for the interim title against the hard hitting Aydin. Guerrero wants the big fights and the big money that comes with it at 147 lbs, and doesn’t want to ease his way slowly into the division like normal fighters do. What makes this even worse for Guerrero is that he’s coming off of serious shoulder surgery on his left rotator cuff from last August.

Guerrero tore up the shoulder while training for an August 27th fight against Marcos Maidana. The injury wiped out that fight, and has kept Guerrero out of the ring ever since. With that kind of injury, the last thing that you want to see a fighter doing in their first bout back is to be moving up two divisions to face a puncher like Aydin. It just seems like a dumb move on Guerrero’s part. You know he wants the big money in fights against the likes of Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, but it’s such a risky gamble when you factor in the amount of weight that Guerrero is moving up and the severity of his shoulder injury.

Guerrero last fought in April of last year beating lightweight Michael Katsidis by a 12 round unanimous decision. Although Guerrero easily won that fight, he looked uncomfortable when Katsidis was putting heat on him and landing hard body shots. Aydin is a much bigger puncher than Katsidis and a lot heavier to boot. If Guerrero thinks he had it tough against Katsidis just wait until he sees what Aydin has in store for him.

The knock on the 28-year-old Aydin is that he’s rarely faced anyone that you can consider a quality fighter. His best wins have come against Ionut Dan Ion (twice), Jackson Osei Bonsu and Said Ouali. That’s the extent of Aydin’s experience against quality fighters, and those guys are more fringe level opponents than top 10 material.



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