Devon Alexander- Bradley or Khan in sight

By Boxing News - 12/13/2009 - Comments

bradley43Photo: Tom Casino/Showtime – By Peter Wells: After American youngster Devon Alexander won the vacant World Boxing Council Light Welterweight crown in a fight against former champion Junior Witter the world has suddenly opened up for him. After retiring Witter after 8 rounds he can now look to a much brighter future and at only 22 he has a long time to take.

He has big options with his fellow world champions Tim Bradley (World Boxing Organization Champ), Amir Khan (World Boxing Association Champ) and Juan Urango (International Boxing Federation Champ). Urango would on paper be the easiest fight, but Khan hasn’t really been tested at world level yet, and Holt did floor Bradley twice, apart from that Tim hasn’t got many flaws. Urango has been beaten twice, his most recent to Andre Berto but he did have to move up a division.

Bradley hasn’t been beaten yet and now isn’t short of top class opposition, beating Junior Witter, Ednar Cherry, Kendall Holt, Nate Campbell but this did end as a no-contest although Tim was going to win clearly anyway and last night there was Lamont Peterson. Bradley isn’t scared of defending his title and is willing to take on everyone in the packed division. Finally there is Khan who hasn’t really been tested, he lost his only fight by first round KO to Breidis Prescott who has been proved twice on the trot he isn’t a world class fighter. Since then Khan has beaten Marco Antonio Barrera on cuts, but was going to win anyway, he won the title off one dimensional Andreas Kotelnik and has defended once by destroying unknown Dmitriy Salita in one. So Khan hasn’t had a big test yet and Alexander would love to return to the UK and beat another British champ in their backyard.

If these fights don’t work out just yet there are plenty more fights out there for him, and many more willing to give him a huge challenge. These include Marcos Maidana who has been linked with a fight against Devon who wouldn’t be a huge risk as Alexander proved he had a good chin and should be able to outwork Marcos all the way. Also there is Paulie Malignaggi especially after beating Juan Diaz, which would make him a worthy challenger. Victor Ortiz is another option, Victor has been exposed before and could get taken out again, and will be up for a world title challenge soon enough. Nate Campbell or Kendall Holt would also be good challenges but would most likely be criticized even if he wins convincingly.

So Alexander has been planted in the right division at the right time and looks to have plenty of great fights, Juan Manuel Marquez could be another option and big fights will unfold, as long as he isn’t fighting for the money then we should get some very entertaining fights in this division.



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