By Dan Ambrose: Antonio Tarver (27-6, 19 KO’s) will be jumping up two entire divisions on Friday night in hopes of starting a new career at heavyweight against Nagy Aguilera (16-4, 11 KO’s) in a scheduled 10 round bout at the Buffalo Run Casino, in Miami, Oklahoma.

Tarver, 41, weighed 221 at Thursdays’ weigh-in for the fight, which is almost 50 pounds heavier than Tarver was for his last fight, a 12 round decision loss to Chad Dawson, in May 2009. With the time away from boxing, the huge move up in weight and the additional aging, you got to figure that Tarver is going to take a lot of punishment in this fight.

Aquilera is clearly a B level heavyweight but he is a heavyweight and he punch a little. I don’t expect Tarver to have carried the little that he did have up from the light heavyweight division.

It might have been possible for Tarver to still have some power if he were to fight at cruiserweight but at heavyweight, he’s likely to be just another undersized fighter with zero power. This has got failure written all over it.

I can see Tarver out-pointing Aguilera because he’s a limited fighter, but Tarver will lose to the first decent fighter they put him in with. The thing is he probably won’t be put in with anyone that resembles a good heavyweight until he gets selected by one of the Klitschko brothers to be massacred.

It’s kind of sad if you’re a boxing fan because Tarver won’t have proven that he deserves a title shot, and yet he’ll still likely get one. All he needs to do is pick out a couple more of more 2nd tier heavyweights and then he’ll get his shot at a title. Of course, Tarver will get hammered into oblivion by the Klitschkos and this will be yet another dull opponent for the Ukrainian brothers to beat up.

Tarver says “My dream is to win a world heavyweight title. It only takes one person to believe in you, and that’s me. The rest will come aboard later. In this weight class I’m definitely a work in progress.”

You can say that again. But at 41, and about to turn 42 next month on November 21st, I think Tarver ran out of time a long time ago. He’s not going to win any heavyweight titles, and, yes, no one believes that he will except for maybe himself. I wonder if he even believes it.