By Mark Vester

The pay-per-view undercard to Roy Jones Jr. vs. Joe Calzaghe, scheduled for November 8 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, will feature two junior welterweight bouts.

The co-feature will see the return of two-division champion Zab Judah (36-6, 25KOs), as he takes on Ernest Johnson (18-2, 7KOs). The fight will take place at an agreed weight of 144-pounds. Judah in his first step to a grand return to the junior welterweight limit. He's been fighting at welterweight since 2004. Johnson has never been stopped. He also never faced anyone on the level of Judah, either.

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The other bout will feature Brooklyn 140-pound prospect Dmitriy Salita (28-0-1, 16KOs) against Derrick Campos (17-5, 10KOs) for the vacant IBF Inter-Continental light welterweight. Campos came close to stopping Jorge Paez Jr. during their 2006 four-round contest. He dropped Paez in the closing seconds of the last round and ran out of time before he could follow-up.

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