By Dan Ambrose: A fight between Marcos Maidana (31-3, 28 KO’s) and former welterweight contender Jesus-Soto Karass (26-7-3, 17 KO’s has been added to the Golden Boy Promotions undercard of the September 15th fight headlined by WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez vs. light welterweight Josesito Lopez at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The addition of Soto-Karass, a Mexican American, to the card is clearly to take advantage of the Mexican Independence holiday which will be celebrated during the weekend of the fight. Apart from that, it’s hard to see the point in Maidana facing a 2nd tier fighter like Soto-Karass. This is a backwards move for 28-year-old Maidana, who lost his last fight against Devn Alexander last February. Maidana was supposed to be facing unbeaten welterweight prospect Keith Thurman (17-0, 16 KO’s) on the undercard of Adrien Broner vs. Vincente Escobedo on July 21st, but Maidana decided not to take that fight.
It was hoped that Maidana would turn around and fight a quality light welterweight contender. However, instead he’s going to the 29-year-old light middleweight Soto-Karass, who has lost four out of his last seven fights. This fight would have been a good one had it taken place in early 2009 before Soto-Karass was getting beaten left and right, but now it’s not really an appealing other than the all-action nature that the fight offers.
With Maidana you can’t be sure that he’ll beat anyone because he’s been beaten or nearly beaten by a number of fighters in the past few years. He lost to Andriy Kotelnik, Amir Khan and Alexander. Maidana almost lost to Erik Morales and DeMarcus Corley.
Soto-Karass has defeats against Alfonso Gomez, Michel Jones and Gabriel Rosado.
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