By Mark Vester

Despite suffering a bad cut in Saturday night's bout against Freudis Rojas in Jalisco, Mexico, former three-division champion Marco Antonio Barrera plans to move forward with his bout against Amir Khan on March 14 at the MEN Arena in Manchester. Rojas, a late replacement with a record of 1-7, struck Barrera with a missile-like head shot that opened up a cut above Barrera's left eye in the third round. The ringside doctor felt the cut was too severe to allow the fight to continue and stopped the contest. The ref disqualified Rojas.


There was a lot of talk backstage that Barrera would not be able to have a proper training camp for the bout with Khan, but promoters Frank Warren and Don King have discussed the situation and the fight will still proceed on the 3/14 without any postponement.

“Frank has spoken to Don King and the fight will definitely go ahead. Frank was told it was a gash above the eye, but Barrera will still be able to fight Khan,” a spokesman for Khan’s promoter Warren told The Daily Star.

More than 15,000 tickets have already been sold for the Barrera-Khan showdown.

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