Andre Berto and Mexico’s Jesus Soto-Karass. Photo: The Sweet Science
If Andre Berto can look good – look very good – against Mexico’s Jesus Soto-Karass on Saturday night in their NABF welterweight title fight at the ATT Center in San Antonio on Showtime, maybe they’ll call Berto and offer him…
Well, maybe they won’t. Soto-Karass isn’t exactly Shane Mosley.
Berto was supposed to fight Mosley a few years back and was several months into training for the fight when Mother Nature interrupted everything and forced Berto to make the right call.
Though he was born in Miami and grew up in Winter Haven, FL, Berto’s parents are from Haiti. Berto cancelled the fight with Mosley after losing several family members in the Haitian earthquake that killed thousands. That will take the fight out of just about anyone.
That was in January 2010. A few months later in June, while Berto was still dealing with the devastation and loss, Mosley took a seriously one-sided beating at the hands of Floyd Mayweather Jr.
And for Berto, the bleeding began.
If Berto would have fought and beaten Mosley, would he have gotten the shot against Mayweather like Mosley did? Who knows. This is the fight game.
If Berto does beat Soto-Karass, a fight with Mayweather will loom a little closer. It helps a lot that both Mayweather and Berto have ties with Golden Boy. It removes a lot of tough snags when you’re trying to put a fight together. – The Sweet Science
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