By Rey Colon

Roman 'Rocky' Martinez, the former WBO junior lightweight champion, who on April 12th will be measured in a title eliminator against Raymundo Beltran at 135 pounds, is planning to directly target the winner of Saturday's title fight between WBO champion Ricky Burns (36-2-1, 11 KO's) and mandatory challenger Terrence Crawford (22-0, 16 KO's).

 

"Rocky is going to fight on the Pacquiao-Bradley undercard against Beltran in a final eliminator and the winner will face the winner between Burns and Crawford. It's going to be interesting," said Peter Rivera, vice president of PR Best Boxing Promotions.

Rivera is planning to set up a lightweight title fight for another of his fighters, Jose "Chelo" González, who nearly defeated Burns for the WBO title last year, but suffered a hand injury and couldn't continue after nine rounds. At the time of the stoppage, Gonzalez was up 87-84 on all three official cards.

"Chelo reappears on March 15 in Bayamon, and then we will arrange another title shot. Rocky is fighting in the same division but there won't be any problems because there are different sanctioning bodies. It's going to be interesting," said Rivera.