Lightweight Lightning....

[EddieShredder]

From Boxingtalk....

GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS PRESENTS "LIGHTWEIGHT LIGHTNING"

PAY-PER-VIEW EXTRAVAGANZA APRIL 4TH IN AUSTIN, TEXAS

Press Release: LOS ANGELES - Perhaps the most talent rich division in boxing, the lightweight class, will be on center stage at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas on Saturday, April 4th, as Golden Boy Promotions presents "Lightweight Lightning," an unprecedented four bout, lightweight pay-per-view event that will feature eight elite 135-pounders in four pivotal match-ups that will undoubtedly re-arrange the hierarchy of the highly competitive 135 pound division in one night.

In the "Lightweight Lightning" main event, revered and undefeated knockout artist Edwin Valero (24-0, 24 KOs) from Venezuela returns to the ring to face hard-hitting Colombian warrior Antonio Pitalua (46-3, 40 KOs) in a 12-round championship bout for the vacant WBC Interim World Lightweight crown.

One of the co-featured bouts prior to the main event will be a 10- round clash between former two-time World Champion and Olympic gold medalist, Cuban-born Joel Casamayor (36-4-1, 22 KOs) against the talented former World Champion and California native Julio Diaz (36-4, 26 KOs). As their records reflect, these two evenly matched pugilists, with similarly impressive knock-out ratios, will vie for dominance in what many pundits anticipate to be a barn-burner of a fight.

The third co-featured bout sees Austin's own Jesus Chavez (44-4, 30 KOs), a crowd-pleasing former Lightweight World Champion who is looking to capture a victory at home when he faces rugged and relentless Australian Michael Katsidis (24-2, 20KOs) who will look to give fight fans the type of "Arturo Gatti-like" performance that have become his trademark.

Rounding out "Lightweight Lightning" will be the always charismatic and entertaining Argentinean Jorge Barrios (47-4-1, 34 KOs) against another Lone Star State fighter, former World Champion Carlos Hernandez (43-7-1, 24 KOs), in a 10-round match-up that will open the pay-per-view telecast that evening.

"We have never done something like this before, pitting eight of the world's best lightweights against each other on one card," said Oscar de la Hoya, President of Golden Boy Promotions. "It's exciting, it's innovative and I can't wait for the opening bell to ring. The lightweight division is going to be shaken up on April 4th and every one of these fighters knows his career can only advance if he comes out victorious that night...a loss for any of them would be devastating."

Not a bad card at all.....

[ArtOfWar]

Yeah, a decent card there, not just because you've got four good fights, but also because most of those guy's are aggressive crowd pleasing fighters. Valero and Katsidis are especially exciting.

Is this just a one off tournament though, or will the four winners meet in the semi finals and then the final two in the final. Barring any major injuries that's what I'd like to see happen, but I haven't heard anything about that.

[The Law]

Pretty solid card with competitive match-ups. Should be full of action. I'll definitely be watching it