By Jason Kim: According to fighthype.com, the winner of the February 25th fight between Devon Alexander (22-1, 13 KO’s) and Marcos Maidana (31-2, 28 KO’s) could face welterweight contender Victor Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KO’s) in a fight in June with the winner of that fight a possibility for a Floyd Mayweather Jr. bout in the summer.

Ortiz, 24, was supposed to be fighting former IBF/WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto on February 11th, but Berto suffered a ruptured left bicep in training yesterday and he won’t be available to fight Ortiz for many months. Ortiz has no opponents slated for his next fight and the Alexander-Maidana winner would be perfect for him. The one drawback of a fight like that is there wouldn’t be a title on the line. It would another non-title fight.

Maidana is moving up in weight from 140 to take the fight with Alexander in his own home town of Saint Louis, Missouri. Alexander, 24, has won controversial decisions the last two times he’s fought at home in Saint Louis and there’s a possibility that he could win a third against Maidana.

It would be incredibly disappointing for Maidana to lose a fight in that manner, but he likely knows what he signed on for when he agreed to fight Alexander in Saint Louis. It puts him in a position where he might need a knockout to win, but it’s not as if he wasn’t warned ahead of time because Alexander’s last two fights in Saint Louis has ended in controversy.

It obviously doesn’t help Alexander’s career to be winning fights that boxing fans at home see him losing, but it’s kept him still on HBO. Timothy Bradley flat out refused to fight Alexander in Saint Louis and instead took him on and beat him in Pontiac Michigan last year.