By Dan Ambrose: Rather than try and avenge his recent loss to Victor Oriz, former World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Andre Berto (27-1, 21 KO’s) is looking to take on 35-year-old IBF welterweight champion Jan Zaveck (31-1, 18 KO’s) in August in a fight that could give the 27-year-old Berto a relatively easy opportunity to snatch a paper title so that he can stay as a champion in one form or another.

It’s not exactly inspiring to see Berto going after the little known Zaveck rather than trying to get a rematch with Ortiz, but it might be Berto’s best shot at getting another title. Manny Pacquiao, the WBO champion, hasn’t shown any interest in fighting Berto. And the WBA champion Vyacheslav Senchenko isn’t well known enough to waste time with, and besides that, he probably won’t be interested in leaving his home country of Ukraine to come and fight Berto in the United States.

Berto’s chances of beating Ortiz in a rematch aren’t good, because Berto’s loss to Ortiz showed that Berto has some serious stamina issues that need to be addressed before he attempts to mix it up with Ortiz again – if he ever does. It may be that Berto doesn’t have the stamina to fight as hard as Ortiz was pushing him in their fight in April. Berto would be asking a lot of his body to try and beat Ortiz without the needed tools to get the job done.

Zaveck is a good fighter and has decent power. This could be a very hard fight for Berto if he can’t get Zaveck out of there quickly. Zaveck has heavy hands and if he’s allowed to land hard shots all night, we could see Berto go down one or two times and then run out of gas again in the 2nd half of the fight. Zaveck will obviously have seen Berto’s fight with Ortiz and will be looking to push a fast pace to try and tire out Berto the way that Ortiz did.