By Scott Gilfoid: Despite having lost the last time he fought at 140 in 2015, former two division world champion Ricky Burns (39-5-1, 13 KOs) will be given the chance to fight for the vacant WBA World light welterweight title on May 28 against #2 WBA Michele Di Rocco (40-1-1, 18 KOs) in Burns’ home city of Glasow, Scotland.
The fight will be taking place at the SSE Hydro. This is one of those fights that makes you shake your head and realize how far the sport of boxing needs to go before it’s up there with the other sports. What is disappointing about the Burns-Di Rocco fight, besides Di Rocco having a resume barren of well-known opposition, is the fact that the soon to be 33-year-old Burns isn’t even ranked in the top 15 at 140.
By Scott Gilfoid: 32-year-old former two division world champion Ricky Burn (39-5-1, 13 KOs) could be facing #2 WBA 140lb contender Michele Di Rocco (40-1-1, 18 KOs) in May sometime in Glascow, Scotland for the vacant WBA “regular” light welterweight title. The fight still isn’t official at this time, as Burns’ promoter Eddie Hearn is still working on it. 
By Scott Gilfoid: If #8 WBO Ricky Burns (39-5-1, 13 KOs) wins his next fight on April 9th, he’ll be getting a world title shot against unbeaten WBO World lightweight champion Terry Flanagan (29-0, 12 KOs) in 2016, according to his manager Alex Morrison. Burns, 32, will be fighting a still to be determined opponent on the undercard of British/Commonwealth heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua’s next fight in April 2016. 
By Gav Duthie: For at least the last 5 years the lightweight division has been Britain’s strongest. Sure there have been better fighters like Kell Brook (Welterweight), Carl Froch (Super Middleweight), Carl Frampton (Bantamweight) etc but for sheer depth of quality lightweight is by far and away the best. They have had at least double figures of contender to world level fighters in the likes of Kevin Mitchell, Ricky Burns, Terry Flanagan, Gavin Rees, Anthony Crolla, John Murray, Derry Matthews, Nicky Cook, Stephen Ormond and Luke Campbell and now that domestic potential is coming to fruition. 
(Callum Smith seen here with a 1000 yard stare ahead of his difficult match-up tonight against Rocky Fielding in Liverpool) By Scott Gilfoid: Tonight the super middleweight division will be weeded out a little when the highly hyped #1 WBC, #10 IBF, #13 WBO, #14 WBA Callum Smith (17-0, 12 KOs) faces #5 IBF, #10 WBA, #10 WBC, #12 WBO Rocky Fielding (21-0, 12 KOs) in a scrap for the vacant British 168lb title at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, UK. 
By Scott Gilfoid: This Saturday night, #1 WBC, #13 IBF, #13 WBO super middleweight contender Callum Smith (17-0, 12 KOs) faces unbeaten #10 WBC, #10 WBA, #12 WBO Rocky Fielding (21-0, 12 KOs) in a 12 round fight for the vacant British 168lb title at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, UK.