By Miguel Rivera

A lot will be at stake on Saturday night, when Robert Guerrero (33-3-1, 18KOs) and Danny Garcia (31-0, 18KOs) trade punches for the vacant World Boxing Council [WBC] welterweight title at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

Garcia is moving up from the junior welterweight division, where he held the WBC/WBA world titles. At that weight, he fought and beat Lucas Matthysse, Kendall Holt, Lamont Peterson Mauricio Herrera, Erik Morales and Amir Khan. He arrived at welterweight last year with a stoppage win over former champion Paulie Malignaggi.

Guerrero has struggled is his last two fights, with some feeling that he may have lost his last bout with Aron Martinez. 

The WBC President, Mauricio Sulaiman, says the winner of the contest will have to face Khan before the month of June. Khan is rated at number one and the mandatory challenger to the title.

"The winner of Garcia-Guerrero will have to fight Amir Khan before June," Sulaiman said.

Khan is reportedly coming back to the ring on a date in March. After that, he wants to fight the Guerrero-Garcia winner in the fall. Khan has been out of the ring for a long time. The British star fought in May of last year when he decisioned former champion Chris Algieri. He failed in his attempts to get pay-per-view fights with Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.

He prefers to face Garcia, because he would like to avenge his 2012 TKO defeat to the Philadelphia fighter. Khan was leading the fight until a single counter hook changed everything around in the third round. Khan went down, never fully recovered and was stopped in the fourth round.

Garcia-Guerrero will headline the Premier Boxing Champions debut on FOX.