By Scott Gilfoid: 27-year-old former three-time world title challenger loser George Groves (21-3, 16 KOs) successfully weighed in on Friday for his 10 round fight against Andrea Di Luisa (18-3, 14 KOs) for their fight on Saturday night at the Copper Box Arena in London, UK. Groves weighed in at 170lbs, which was two pounds lighter than the agreed on 172lb limit for the non-title fight.

Di Luisa, 33, also weighed in at 170lbs. Both guys looked in good shape and ready to battle it out. It’s hard to understand how Groves-Di Luisa ended up as the main event on this career considering that Groves has lost 3 out of his last 5 fights and is coming off a loss to WBC 168lb champion Badou Jack from last September at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

I’m not sure that I’ve seen that too much where a guy with that many losses in his last five fights is headlining a career. It just makes me shake my head and wonder what’s going on in the boxing world. I could understand it if Groves was actually winning his fights, but for him to be headlining a career after losing 24/7, I have no idea what people are thinking.

If Groves were fighting for a world title against one of the 168lb champs, then, yeah, I could see him fighting in the main event, but not against a guy like Di Luisa, who was recently blown out in four rounds by past his best Lucian Bute last August. That just seems weird to me.

“He looks like a nice friendly chap to be honest. It’s nice to have a fight that is going to be a fight but not until we step through the ropes,” Groves told skysports.com. “There’s no need for it this time round. We’re going to conserve some energy now and save it all for tomorrow night.”

If Groves loses this fight, which unfortunately is a possibility given his struggles inside the ring as of late, then he really needs to think seriously about hanging up the gloves.

Carl Froch did Groves twice in stopping him inside the distance, and Badou recently edged him in a 12 round decision. A loss to Di Luisa would be pretty much a sign that it’s all over for Groves, especially if he gets brained by one of Di Luisa’s hard right hands. Di Luisa isn’t a world class 1st tier fighter. He’s second tier all the way. Groves can’t be losing to 2nd tier guys if he wants to fight for a world title.

Groves says he wants to fight for a world title by the summer. I’m not sure what the big rush is. Groves just added a new trainer Shane McGuigan to his team after switching out Paddy Fitzgerald, and it seems to me that Groves would be better off getting some more time under his belt with McGuigan before he goes running off and fighting for yet another world title.

I’m just saying. It seems a tad bit premature for Groves to be flapping his gums about wanting to fight for another world title. By moving to McGuigan as his promoter and stepping backwards in terms of opposition in facing Di Luisa, Groves is basically pushing the reset button on his career.

When you push the reset button, that means you need to slowly build your way back up the ladder. You don’t just add a trainer, beat up on a fodder opponent, and then announce yourself as being ready to fight for a world title. I mean, Groves can certainly do all that if he wants to, but I think it’s stupid as heck. Talk about your foolish moves.

I’ve only been working with Shane for a couple of months but we’re on the comeback trail. I think they’ll see an explosive performance. Nice and sharp and hitting hard,” Groves said. “Hopefully they [the fans] will see improvements.”

Well, if Groves gets knocked out on Saturday night, I hope he doesn’t start crying crocodile tears over it. The guy has a whole mess of losses in the last three years, and that kind of tells you something, doesn’t it? When you get smacked around like Groves has been getting lately, it suggests to me that you’re not really cut out to be fighting at the top rung of the super middleweight division.