By Jim Dower: 36-year-old former three division world champion Marco Antonio Barrera (66-7, 43 KO’s) will be making his ring return on December 11th against little known 25-year-old Likar Ramos (23-3, 17 KO’s), according to Fightnews.com. The fight will be taking place in Mexico. Barrera won his last fight over Adailton De Jesus by a 10 round unanimous decision in June of this year in what looked like a sparring match for the most part. Before that, Barrera had been dominated by Amir Khan in a 5th round technical decision loss in March 2009.

It’s unclear why Barrera is still sticking around boxing, because he doesn’t look good enough to win a title at lightweight nor at super featherweight, featherweight or bantamweight. Barrera just looks like he’s lost too much of his once great skills to be the top fighters in boxing. However, he could be sticking around hoping to get another fight with Erik Morales and Juan Manuel Marquez. A third fight with Manny Pacquiao would seem out of the question at this point considering how badly Barrera was beaten in his two prior fights with the Filipino star.

Barrera doesn’t look fast enough or strong enough for the lightweight division. He would be better off moving back down to super featherweight or featherweight if he could somehow cut the weight off without draining himself to the point of weakness. However, it’s likely that Barrera can no longer take the weight off without losing too much in the process. Either way, he’d likely get dominated by the top super featherweights just as bad as he would against the best lightweights.

Ramos has faced mostly 2nd tier opposition during his five year pro career. Ramos tried to step it up in February of this year and was stopped in the 7th round by Jorge Solis.