Joel Casamayor vs. Michael Katsidis

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A fun, breezy scrap between the relentless Katsidis and the crafty Casamayor for the lineal lightweight world championship (although only an interim title was up for grabs). Casamayor dominates early, knocking Katsidis down twice in the first, but Katsidis comes on to take the middle rounds--knocking Casamayor through the ropes and almost out of the ring at one point--and is in the ascendancy on the official cards when he gets careless coming out for the tenth and gets brutally stopped.