{"id":17155,"date":"2011-11-04T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=17155"},"modified":"2011-11-04T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T19:24:06","slug":"michael-katsidis-ricky-burns-hit-the-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=17155","title":{"rendered":"Michael Katsidis &#8211; Ricky Burns Hit the SCALES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"cotto_banner300x250_final\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shopecko.com\/family\/index.jsp?categoryId=3204010&amp;cp=11804784.11813355\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"cotto_banner300x250_final\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cotto_banner300x250_final.jpg\" alt=\"cotto_banner300x250_final\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=17155\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=17155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17072\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"burns header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/burns-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Ricky Burns and Michael Katsidis both weighed in at 135 lbs. even (nine-stone-nine) for their interim WBO world lightweight title clash on Saturday night at Wembley Arena in London.<\/p>\n<p>Burns said, \u201cI can\u2019t wait for Saturday night now. All the hard work is done and I just want to get in the ring and win that second world title. I\u2019ve not taken anything for granted and this is going to be the hardest night of my life, but I\u2019m ready for it.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fans had better get ready for a dynamite fight. I\u2019ve prepared for a war against Burns and that\u2019s is the best way I fight,\u201d said Katsidis.<\/p>\n<p>British and Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groves scaled in at 167.75, the same weight as challenger Paul Smith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309134704&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/family-secret-ad-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/BookDetail.aspx?Book=232300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11989\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxing interviews ad bio\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/boxing-interviews-ad-bio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RingsideReport1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/twitter-ad-link.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11990\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"advertise header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/advertise-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Burns and Michael Katsidis both weighed in at 135 lbs. even (nine-stone-nine) for their interim WBO world lightweight title clash on Saturday night at Wembley Arena in London. Burns said, \u201cI can\u2019t wait for Saturday night now. All the hard work is done and I just want to get in the ring and win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2095,5851],"class_list":["post-17155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-michael-katsidis","tag-rikcy-burns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17155"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}