Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero vs. Yoshihiro Kamegai on June 21st on Lomachenko-Russell Jr card

By Boxing News - 04/28/2014 - Comments

guerrero112By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (31-2-1, 18 KO’s) will finally be returning to the ring on June 21st to fight 31-year-old #7 IBF, #14 WBC Yoshihiro Kamegai (24-1-1, 21 KO’s) at a still to be determined venue on the undercard of the Gary Russell Jr. vs. Vasyl Lomachenko fight. Guerrero, 31, has burned up a year of his career sitting idle after his one-sided 12 round unanimous decision loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. last year in May.

Guerrero was hoping to get a rematch against Mayweather, but he was ignored by him. The fight was too one-sided for Mayweather to waste time fighting Guerrero, #9 WBO, #11 WBC, a second time, and besides that the pay-per-view numbers weren’t big enough to encourage Mayweather to give Guerrero another shot.

Guerrero was recently trying to get out of his contract with Golden Boy Promotions. However, there’s no indication as of yet that Guerrero will succeed at doing this. He recently signed with adviser Al Haymon, and that should help Guerrero get some interesting fights. But his chances of a big money fight are slim right now unless Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer decides to feed Guerrero to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. That’s pretty much the best chance for Guerrero to get a big fight as long as he’s with Golden Boy unless he’s willing to take on the likes of dangerous welterweights like Shawn Porter and Keith Thurman. Guerrero would likely say yes to a fight against Amir Khan, but Golden Boy seems to have other ideas for Khan.

Guerrero was able to talk his way into the fight with Mayweather, but it’s doubtful he’ll be able to talk his way into a fight against Canelo. He’s going to need to beat someone good to get the red-headed fighter in the ring.

The 5’9 1/2″ Kamegai is a tall fighter with decent but hardly great power. He’s got a lot of knockouts, but he’s faced largely obscure opposition during his career. Kamegai tends to stand straight up when he fights, and he throws a lot of jabs. He’s got a nice jab, but he gets too close to his opponents before he throws it and it kind of defeats the purpose.

Kamegai’s defense is poor, and he has very little power in his right hand. The only real weapons he has is his left hook and jab, and that’s all he’s needed to beat guys like Jung-Hoon Yang, Tim Hunt, Jose Alberto Leal and Jose Alfaro. The only recognizable win on his resume is the lightweight Alfaro. It would be a good question to ask Kamegai’s management why he was matched a lightweight like Alfaro this far into his career. Kamegai was recently beaten by Johan Perez.



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