By Dan Ambrose: The last Jesus Soto-Karass (24-5-3, 16 KO’s) fought unbeaten welterweight contender Mike Jones (23-0, 18 KO’s), Soto-Karass lost a questionable 10 round majority decision last year in November. On tomorrow night, the 28-year-old Soto-Karass intends on taking the judges out of the fight by knocking Jones out at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Jones-Soto Karass fight will be on the undercard of the Nonito Donaire vs. Fernando Montiel bantamweight championship bout. However, the Jones vs. Soto-Karass fight could turn out to be a lot more exciting if their fight is anything similar to their action-packed bout last year on the Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito fight card. Their fight was easily the best of the night back then, and we could see the same thing.

The only bad problem with their previous fight is that Jones appeared to lose the fight after gassing out early. Soto-Karass dominated the fight after the 3rd and punches the musclebound Jones at will during the last seven rounds of the fight. Jones, a fighter who came into the fight heavily hyped, walked into the ring looking more like a light heavyweight than a welterweight.

Jones punched well early, hurting Soto-Karass with some right hands. However, Jones lacked hand speed and the flexibility with his rigid muscular frame to put Soto-Karass away. Like a lot of fighters that are carrying around too much muscle for their own good, Jones tired and couldn’t get a second wind. Soto-Karass then took the fight to Jones and teed off on him for the second half of the fight.

It may take a knockout for Soto-Karass to get the win, because Jones, for some reason, is heavily hyped, even though he looks painfully slow and lacking flexibility in his upper body. Soto-Karass says he’s going to take the fight to Jones like last time but is going to go for a knockout to make sure the judges don’t mess things up for him.

If Jones loses the fight, he might want to consider moving up in weight to middleweight or super middleweight. He looks way too big for a welterweight and he’s too slow for this weight class. If not that, then he needs to take off some of the useless muscle he’s carrying around on his upperbody and take some stretching classes to make his upper body more limber and flexible because he’s incredibly stiff for a fighter. It’s the wrong weight class to be as stiff as Jones.