By Gerardo Granados: Tonight at the New Mexico City Arena, Mexico City; former three division champion Juan Manuel Marquez will engage against Serihy Fedchenko # 4 WBO ranked contender. According to a statement made by Francisco Valcarcel president of the World Boxing Organization in an interview made yesterday at ESPN Golpe a Golpe, the fight could be sanctioned to dispute the regular light welterweight championship instead of the interim belt.

There is a good possibility and it is probable that the negotiations between promoters and the current champion Tim Bradley who will fight for the WBO welterweight belt against Manny Pacquiao could lead to authorize Marquez and Fedchenko to dispute the regular belt.

Marquez was interviewed and he stated that the interim belt was just a step towards to win the world title and be recognized as a legit four weight division champion. Juan Manuel believes that the interim championships are not as valuable as a world title but gave merit to the achievement.

There is still a possibility for Marquez to become the third Mexican born fighter to achieve world titles in four weight division, feat that has only been accomplished by the old lion Erik “Terrible” Morales and Jorge “Travieso” Arce current WBO bantam weight champion.

Regardless of the category of the belt at stake, both fighters prepared well for this fight and at the weight inn Marquez stops the scales at 140 pounds and Fedchenko 138.5 pounds. I´ll pick Marquez to stop Fedchenko past the seven round. Let´s see if Fedchenko can perform well at the altitude of Mexico City and defeat Marquez at his hometown. Good luck for both fighters.