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AUSTRALIAN lightweight boxer Michael Katsidis is faced with yet another pre-fight drama.
His April 10 clash in Las Vegas with two-division world champion Robert Guerrero is now in doubt following a sparring accident.
The Queensland-born fighter needed five stitches for a nasty wound near an eyebrow, inflicted during a sparring session at his training camp in Thailand.
The cut is considered serious enough to jeopardise the bout against former IBF featherweight and super featherweight world champion Guerrero at the MGM Grand.
It is the Katsidis' second successive fight dogged by misfortune
His previous bout against Juan Manuel Marquez was thrown into doubt by the death of Katsidis' brother Stathi just over a month beforehand.
There was speculation that fight would be cancelled, but the 30-year-old Australian went ahead with the contest.
He knocked Marquez down in round three, before being stopped in the ninth round of their MGM Grand bout in late November last year.
Katsidis' manager and trainer Brendon Smith could not be contacted for comment, but news of the injury leaked out of Thailand over the last 24 hours.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/spo...-1226018575917
His April 10 clash in Las Vegas with two-division world champion Robert Guerrero is now in doubt following a sparring accident.
The Queensland-born fighter needed five stitches for a nasty wound near an eyebrow, inflicted during a sparring session at his training camp in Thailand.
The cut is considered serious enough to jeopardise the bout against former IBF featherweight and super featherweight world champion Guerrero at the MGM Grand.
It is the Katsidis' second successive fight dogged by misfortune
His previous bout against Juan Manuel Marquez was thrown into doubt by the death of Katsidis' brother Stathi just over a month beforehand.
There was speculation that fight would be cancelled, but the 30-year-old Australian went ahead with the contest.
He knocked Marquez down in round three, before being stopped in the ninth round of their MGM Grand bout in late November last year.
Katsidis' manager and trainer Brendon Smith could not be contacted for comment, but news of the injury leaked out of Thailand over the last 24 hours.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/spo...-1226018575917
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