By Carlos Acevedo of The Cruelest Sport.

Quintessential professional Juan Manuel Marquez faces gore-thirsty Michael Katsidis on Saturday night in what promises to be a minor masterpiece of violence at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. If Marquez, now 37, can be considered an Old Master–Caravaggio or El Greco, say–then Katsidis, 30, is an action painter–all nervous, slashing energy, something akin to William de Kooning or Jackson Pollock, perhaps. The drip patterns, of course, are made with blood. Read more...