By Dan Ambrose: Former IBF/WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (28-1, 22 KO’s) isn’t too impressed with what he’s seen of 29-year-old WBC interim welterweight champion Robert Guerrero (30-1-1, 18 KO’s) in the speed and power departments and he figures to have a considerable advantage over him when they meet this month on November 24th at the Citizens Business Bank Arena, in Ontario, California, USA.

Berto told the Boxing Channel “He’s [Guerrero] pretty mechanical. He does everything by a textbook. Not too much speed, not too much power. My advantage is speed and power.”

Berto definitely has a huge advantage over Guerrero in the speed and power department. Guerrero doesn’t have welterweight power since moving up in weight to the division last July. Guerrero was a fair puncher at featherweight, super featherweight and to a much lesser extent at lightweight. However, in moving up in weight two divisions this year, Guerrero has lost what was left of his power. He never was particularly fast to begin with, and is now even slower. But the power, or lack thereof, if a problem for Guerrero in this fight.

He’s going to have major problems with Berto hitting him with blinding triple and quad-triple hooks to the head and body before he can even respond. It’s going to be bad and I’ll be surprised if Guerrero makes it past the 6th. It’s not just the potential for Berto to knock him out cold, but perhaps more a case of the damage that Berto will do to his face with his shots. We saw what Berto did to former IBF welterweight champion Jan Zaveck in his last fight when he had Zaveck’s right eye completely closed by the 5th. Berto did that damage in just two rounds because the swelling started in the 3rd and he could no longer see out of the eye by the 5th.

Guerrero doesn’t have a lot of options for this fight because he doesn’t have the power or the speed that Victor Ortiz had when he beat Berto last year, so we’re not likely going to see Guerrero being able to do the things that Ortiz did.