Katsidis-Marquez

By Dan Ambrose: 37-year-old WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (51-5-1, 37 KO’s) has been looking older and older in each successive fight in the past two years, and was recently handily beaten by Floyd Mayweather Jr. by a lopsided decision last year. On Saturday night, I expect Marquez to look more than his age [...]

By Gerardo Granados: Seven years ago Marquez was the IBF – WBA Super World featherweight champion, actually he is the WBO – WBA Super World lightweight and former WBC super featherweight champion. Now that speaks for it self, he is a proven fighter, yet he is old not in his prime but still a great [...]

LOS ANGELES, November 22 – In less than one week, the Unified Lightweight World Championship bout between Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Marquez and Michael Katsidis “The Great” and the WBC Welterweight World Championship between Andre Berto and Freddy Hernandez will join a rich list of Thanksgiving weekend world championship fights.

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By Ryan Watson: In just over a months time power-punching Australian Michael Katsidis takes on Mexican ring legend Juan Manuel Marquez in a clash for the WBA lightweight title at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas. In a bout which has fight of the year written all over it, will we see Katsidis become the ‘nearly [...]

By Michael Taylor: A few weeks ago Juan Manuel Marquez told the public that he would be returning to Las Vegas on May 1st. No opponent had been named, but there were big possibilities that he would clash with Ricky Hatton at Light Welterweight in a summer showdown. Golden Boy Promotions had told boxingscene that [...]