By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart
Southern hemisphere boxers. There have been quite a few that have traveled all the way to the UK and given us a scare. Whilst former WBO heavyweight champion, Joseph Parker has his fight with Junior Fa touted as the biggest thing down under, it was the smaller guys that kept us awake at night beforehand.
The night that Ricky Hatton won against Kosta Tszyu remains large in our memories, but he was far from being a lone wolf and skilled practitioner in the art of the pugilistic sciences from the other side of the world. Michael Katsidis, 33-8, 24 KO’s, active from 2001 until 20XX and fighting mainly at lightweight won the WBO interim lightweight title twice and also fought twice for the lineal title.