By Allan Fox: This Friday night, 33-year-old Michael Katsidis (28-6, 23 KO’s) will be making a comeback in facing super featherweight journeyman Eddy Comaro (27-17-5, 11 KO’s) in a scheduled 10 round bout at the Rumours International, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. At one time one of the best fighters in the lightweight division, Katsidis hasn’t fought since losing a narrow 10 round majority decision to the much bigger Albert Mensah in April of 2012.
In his bout before that, Katsidis had been beaten by then interim WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns. As it is, Katsidis has lost 4 out of his last 5 fights.
Katsidis’s defeats have all come against really high quality opposition with the exception of the defeat to Mensah, which was the result of Katsidis moving up to the light welterweight division and facing a really big fighter in that weight class in the 5’10” Mensah. It was the worst possible opponent for Katsidis to have fought for his first fight at 140.
Comaro has lost 6 out of his last 9 fights, and he’s not in the same league as even a rusty Katsidis. This fight has early knockout written all over it. But Katsidis’s chances of going far in the lightweight division or in any division for that matter aren’t very good. His brawling style of fighting can only work against a certain amount of contenders, and he’s not going to be able to get away with using that style to defeat the really good lightweights like Terence Crawford, Richard Abril, Miguel Vazquez, Raymundo Beltran, Yuriorkis Gamboa and Omar Figueroa. Katsidis has an excellent left hook in his arsenal, but he’s never developed a lot of power in his right hand for some reason. He would need a massive amount of power in his right hand for him to be able to compete against the best fighters in the lightweight division.
Hopefully, Katsidis doesn’t get any wild ideas that a victory over Comaro this Friday will mean that he’s able to compete against the top lightweights because unless he can improve his leaky defense, and develop some power in his right hand, he’s not going to go far in the division.
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