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Rocky comes home
By Dave Wellings
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'Rocky’ Katsidis
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After several
televised appearances in Sydney, Michael ‘Rocky’
Katsidis returns to his home town Toowoomba
on Saturday, 6 November to fight for the vacant
IBF Pan-Pacific lightweight title.
Sergio Liendo of the Argentine, the Trans-Continental
super-featherweight champion, brings with him
the experience of 88 paid bouts.
Katsidis is rated at #8 by
the WBO (he holds their version of the Pacific).
But his record of 13-0 (11 KOs) pales into insignificance
beside the 62-20-3 (31) of the 34-year-old South
American..
Liendo has swapped leather
with the likes of Prince Naseem Hamed, Derrick
Gainer, Jorge Barrios and world-rated South
African, Cassius Baloyi.
Promoter Brendan Smith said
he had hoped to match Katsidis with Ben Cruz
and a tentative date had been agreed for a showdown
with the two rising lightweights as a televised
main event in Sydney.
A much larger venue is being
tried for Katsidis-Liendo - the Clive Berghoffer
Recreation Centre at the University of Southern
Queensland - and if this is a success, Toowoomba
fans could be seeing a lot more of their local
hero.
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