By Jim Dower: World Boxing Organization light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (25-0, 11 KO’s) says that he’s interested in fighting IBF/WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (20-0, 13 KO’s) in June if possible.

In an article at Boxing Talk, Bradley said “Let’s do it” when asked if he’d be interested in facing Alexander in June. However, Bradley says that the “money has to be right” for him to fight Alexander.

Bradley goes on to say that he thinks it would be a close fight in the first six rounds but that he’d get to Alexander in the later rounds of the fight. Bradley, 26, who is considered to be the best fighter in the light welterweight division by many, says that he thinks Alexander is very talented and a tough fighter.

However, a fight between Alexander and Bradley might not happen next, because the 23-year-old Alexander has been mentioning 32-year-old Zab Judah (38-6, 26 KO’s) as an opponent that he’d like to fight next.

Judah, at one time the IBF/WBA/WBC welterweight champion, has been mostly a gate keeper in the welterweight division since losing his last title, the WBC belt, to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2006. Judah has fought three times in the past two years, beating Ernest Johnson and Ubaldo Hernandez while losing to Joshua Clottey.

Judah is a better known fighter than Bradley among casual fans of the sport, but it’s hard to tell how much he has left at this point in his career. It’s been five years since Judah beat a high quality fighter, defeating Cory Spinks by a 9th round stoppage in 2005 to capture the IBF/WBC/WBC welterweight titles.

But since that time, Judah has failed in fights against top level opposition, losing to Carlos Baldomir, Mayweather, Miguel Cotto and Joshua Clottey. The only real opposition that Judah has been able to beat is 2nd tier fighters. At 5’7”, Judah should have moved back down to the light welterweight division long ago where he would have had a better chance at competing than at welterweight.

Alexander looked very impressive in defeating International Boxing Federation light welterweight champion Juan Urango last Saturday night on March 6th in an 8th round TKO. Alexander ended the fight with a big uppercut to the head of Urango. Alexander had knocked Urango down moments earlier with an identical looking uppercut.

If Alexander wanted to get attention immediately from hardcore boxing fans, a fight against Bradley would be the way to go rather than taking on Judah. Bradley is probably the much tougher opponent and the one that would give Alexander more of a name than beating up on Judah at this point. Judah doesn’t have a title like Bradley does, and Zab has been beaten in four out of his last nine bouts.

If you take away Judah’s wins against 2nd tier opposition among the nine fights, Judah’s record is 0-4-1, which is pretty poor to be given a title shot. Despite Judah’s lack of wins over top level opposition in the past four years, he’s ranked at number #7 in the IBF light welterweight division.