By Miguel Rivera

Former world welterweight champion Luis Collazo is in Puerto Rico preparing for what may be the final high profile opportunity of his career - unless he wins. Collazo is going to challenge WBA 'regular' champion Keith Thurman (25-0, 21KOs) on July 11. The fight will headline the debut of Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN.

In 2014, Collazo (36-6, 19 KO) had two fights. First he knocked out Victor Ortiz in two rounds and then lost to Amir Khan by unanimous decision. In April, Collazo beat unheralded Christopher Degollado in two rounds.

"A Luis loves to train in the heat. In addition, for the fight against Amir Khan we had too many distractions which didn't allow us to have a proper camp and we decided it was best to get away from everything. Khan's camp was the worst in the career of Luis and this time we did not want to take any risks," said Willie Vargas, trainer of Collazo, to Carlos Gonzalez.
 
"If Thurman is thinking that Luis will be easy, he is committing a serious error. We will not stay in front of him as his other opponents did. We will use angles. This is a great opportunity for Luis. We know that Mayweather will be looking for an opponent for his last fight in September and we would like to be that someone."