By Jason Kim: Former light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver (27-6, 19 KO’s) begins Friday what he’s hopes will lead to a big money title shot against the world champion Klitschko brothers when he takes on Nagy Aguilera (16-4, 11 KO’s) at the Buffalo Run Casino, in Miami, Oklahoma. Tarver will be turning 42 on November 21st, and yet he hopes to get a world title shot if he can beat two or three heavyweights to prove himself.

If Tarver does end up getting a title shot, it will be largely because of how poor the heavyweight division is because there’s no way that fighter like Tarver, who has lost his last two fights at light heavyweight, should get a title shot after only two or three fights at heavyweight. But then again, that’s exactly what World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye.

However, in Haye’s case, he only one heavyweight bout before he was allowed to fight WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev in November 2009. In Haye’s case, he won the fight by a narrow decision because Valuev couldn’t fight.

The 6’3″ Tarver doesn’t appear to have the build to be a heavyweight. Even with the weight that he’s put on to fill out to 225, he still looks like a skinny beanpole and nothing like a heavyweight should look. I don’t expect Tarver to have any real power, so he’s probably going to be jabbing a lot and hoping to jab his way to a decision. This isn’t Roy Jones Jr. that Tarver will be facing on Friday night, so he won’t be able to count on scoring any one punch knockouts like he did with Jones six years ago in 2004.

If anyone is going to be getting a knockout on Friday, it will be Aguilera, who can punch a little. He got lucky and stopped an old Oleg Maskaev in the 1st round last year in December. However, Aguilera was immediately destroyed by Samuel Peter in a 3rd round TKO loss in March 2010, and then beaten again, this time by 34-year-old Maurice Harrison in a 12 round decision loss in August.