Watch Berto vs Zaveck live HBO Boxing online - Jan Zaveck vs Andre Berto welterweight on 3rd September , 2011 .
World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Andre Berto (27-1, 21 KO’s) is looking to take on 35-year-old IBF welterweight champion Jan Zaveck (31-1, 18 KO’s) in August in a fight that could give the 27-year-old Berto a relatively easy opportunity to snatch a paper title so that he can stay as a champion in one form or another.
World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Andre Berto (27-1, 21 KO’s) is looking to take on 35-year-old IBF welterweight champion Jan Zaveck (31-1, 18 KO’s) in August in a fight that could give the 27-year-old Berto a relatively easy opportunity to snatch a paper title so that he can stay as a champion in one form or another.
However, due to Berto’s exciting performance in losing his IBF title to Victor Ortiz in April, HBO has decided to show another one of Berto’s fights. Hopefully, this fight will be an thrilling as the Ortiz-Berto fight, because a lot of boxing fans are going to be watching it with high expectations from Berto. The winner of the Berto-Zaveck fight will be defending the IBF title against mandatory challenger Randall Bailey, who will be fighting on the undercard of Berto-Zaveck. That’ll be interesting as well but unfortunately Bailey’s fight won’t be televised by HBO.
Zaveck, 35, will be fighting for the first time in the United States. Most of his previous bouts have taken place in either Germany or his home country of Slovenia. Zaveck, 5’7 1/2″, is about the same size as Berto and has good power. He doesn’t have Berto’s speed, though, and that could be a problem for him if Berto is able to get to him early. But if Zaveck can apply pressure the way that Ortiz did we could see a minor upset on September 3rd. It wouldn’t be a major one because Berto has already shown in the past that he’s beatable if you go to war with him and are willing to take some shots to land your own.
