By Scott Gilfoid: British super middleweight champion George Groves (14-0, 11 KO’s) fights Francisco Sierra (25-5-1, 22 KO’s) on July 28th in what Groves hopes will be an easy tune-up bout on the undercard of the Robert Guerrero vs. Selcuk Aydin fight card at the HP Pavilion, in San Jose, California.

With the little experience as the 24-year-old Groves has and with the fact that he can be hurt when facing punchers, there’s a chance that Sierra could pull off an upset here if he can hit Groves with his best shots. Groves is the same kind of fighter that Amir Khan is with the way he seems to get angry when he gets hit, and wants to retaliate with his own shots immediately.

That kind of fighter is always going to be susceptible against a slugger like Sierra, because it’s a fighter that Sierra is used to fighting. You don’t beat Sierra unless you’ve got huge power like Edison Miranda or if you have great boxing skills. Groves can box, but he seems like a hot-heated fighter that wants to fire back on his opponents as good as he gets tagged hard. Case in point his fight against Paul Smith last November.

Smith tags Groves with a huge right hand at the end of the 1st round that had Groves looking a little wobbly. At the very start of the next round, Groves immediately went after Smith and was able to quickly knock him out. Little did we know at the time that Smith had badly broken his right hand at the end of the 1st round after hitting Groves with a right to the head, and was in excruciating pain and unable to use his right hand. Smith was easy pickings at that point. But if Smith hand no injured his right hand, he might have been able to finish off Groves in the second because he was predictably coming right at him trying to even the score.