I'm backing Casamayor

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I think I'm going to go with Casamayor. Santa Cruz is actually a very decent boxer with skills, Katsidis has zero skills.

I think Casa knocks him out, even a badly faded Casa.

Joel may have looked piss poor last time out but I still can't see how the bookies have Kats a clear favourite for this one.

He went life and death with Graham Earl for fucks sakes, and thats his biggest win. In fact thats the only opponent hes fought who I ever even heard of!

Casamayor has gone toe toe with the greatest lightweights of the past 10 years, Im amazed the bookies have Kats such a big favourite for this.

In my mind he's going to get starched

I sort of had the same thoughts until I recently watched some of Casamayor vs Corrales which was at the end of 06... Casa actually looks extremely faded in that fight as well, Chico was just so damn weight drained he couldn't do anything about it. Before that I remember Casa had fought on FNF and looked very average. I don't think his last fight was just due to the layoff and something he'll be able to shake off in training. He has been rapidly declining over the last few years imo, hasn't looked good at all since he was shafted against Kid Diamond. You've also got to remember the bookies know how each fighter looks leading up to the fight, they hear things we won't, maybe Casa is getting clobbered by his sparring partners. Wouldn't surprise me. I don't think this fight will really come down to Kats being very good, Casamayor has faded enough to lose to him though.

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What you gotta remember is how hungry Katsidis will be, really he's only a 'interim' champ and so if he wins this he will bag the Ring belt meaning technically he would be considered #1 lightweight in the world

I've got Katsidis PTS.