Comments Thread For: Ricky Burns Ready For New Career Chapter on 10/4

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Ricky Burns will face Leonardo Esteban Gonzalez in his first bout at Light Welterweight at the first direct Arena in Leeds on October 4, live on Sky Sports.

Burns moves up to 140lbs following a tough run in the Lightweight division after surrendering his WBO World title despite a gutsy display against talented Omaha star Terence Crawford in March, and his subsequent split decision loss to Dejan Zlaticanin in June made Burns make the decision to move up. Burns meets the 32 year old Argentine over ten rounds and the pair have a common foe in Paulus Moses, the Namibian whom Burns defended his Lightweight crown against in March 2012 and Gonzalez challenged for the WBO International Lightweight belt in October 2013.
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Must be a few pages missing from the chapter, I think he's lost the plot. One of his major attributes was his physicality as a super-feather and then lightweight. He's got a good engine, chin and boxing ability but I feel like it's time to hang 'em up.

There is no big domestic fights for him at 140 and I can't see him picking up any titles past European level. I could see him dropping back down to lightweight at some point and fighting Crolla.