By Peter Wells: First of all I hope you enjoyed my friend Michael Taylor’s articles hopefully he’ll carry on, we just worked together and he took the credit. Well now to the Light Welterweight division, it is full of great names and if all the fighters fought each other then we could have some great fights next year and beyond. Packed into the division we have: Timothy Bradley (WBO), Devon Alexander (WBC), Amir Khan (WBA), Juan Urango (International Boxing Federation), Marcos Maidana, Juan Manuel Marquez, Ricky Hatton, Victor Ortiz, Nate Campbell and Paulie Malignaggi.

And maybe there are more that you can mention, but these are the top fighters. We may not see Ricky Hatton or Juan Manuel Marquez for long, but a fight against each other would be great. There are possibilities that Ali Funeka might move up in weight, but let’s just stick with who we have.

So far only Victor Ortiz and Marcos Maidana have met out of all those names, but already all these names are been linked together. To be honest why do they need to look at other divisions when they look around there own division. For next year Devon Alexander is returning on March 6th and Marcos Maidana has been linked with him. There were talks that Amir Khan would fight on the card and the winner of each fight would face each other in the summer.

Since defeating Dmitriy Salita in just over a minute, Amir Khan has been linked to nearly every big name in the division. First he was linked to Marquez and Hatton then there were talks for a fight with Bradley then a fight with Malignaggi. I’m guessing Khan is spoilt for choice and picking an opponent won’t be easy. Malignaggi’s name has been linked with a fight with Pacquiao if the Mayweather fight doesn’t get sorted and if Marquez fights Hatton then Khan will still be left with Bradley, Ortiz whom has also been mentioned, Urango and Campbell. Juan Urango is hoping to fight Khan and has big plans for the future. Bradley would be the best fight personally; Tim has the WBO title, is unbeaten and would hold a great challenge. It would also be the hardest, while Campbell would just be a test, and Ortiz would be another interesting battle between two fighters who have suffered bad losses.

It’s doubtful that all these great fights will happen, other fighters will emerge and others will be exposed and pushed to the side, or weight issues will ruin most of them.