ARLINGTON, Texas – More than 10 years have passed since Radzhab Butaev and Eimantas Stanionis fought for the second time as amateur boxers.

When the bell rings for their third fight Saturday night at AT&T Stadium, Stanionis assured fans that they’ll pick up right where they left off in two very competitive amateur matches Butaev won on points. Their 12-round fight for Butaev’s WBA world welterweight title will headline a “Showtime Championship Boxing” doubleheader that’ll lead directly into a four-fight pay-per-view show that’ll feature welterweight champions Errol Spence Jr. and Yordenis Ugas in the main event.

“I always say good things about fighters because it’s a tough sport,” Stanionis told BoxingScene.com following an open workout Wednesday night at Texas Live!, near AT&T Stadium. “So, everybody has my respect. It’s going to be a good fight for him and for me. Of course, I want to win. Let’s put it like this – it’s going to be very exciting for the fans. It’s going to be very exciting because, stylistically, we match very well. It’s going to be a banger. There’s no secret to this.”

Butaev beat Jamal James by ninth-round technical knockout to win his secondary WBA belt October 30 at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino’s Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas.

The WBA ordered Russia’s Butaev (14-0, 11 KOs, 1 NC) and Minneapolis’ James (27-2, 12 KOs) to square off in a four-fighter tournament ultimately designed to crown one WBA champ in the 147-pound division. Cuba’s Ugas (27-4, 12 KOs), the WBA’s “super” champion after upsetting Manny Pacquiao (62-8-2, 39 KOs) by unanimous decision August 21 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, was ordered to face Stanionis (13-0, 9 KOs) as part of that tournament.

Stanionis stepped aside, which enabled Ugas to take a much more lucrative title unification fight with Spence (27-0, 21 KOs), who owns the IBF and WBC crowns. That left Butaev to face Stanionis in a mandated match on their undercard.

While deferential toward James (27-2, 12 KOs), Stanionis pointed out that a more difficult fight awaits Butaev on Saturday night.

“Jamal James is a very good fighter, also,” said Stanionis, who will attempt to become Lithuania’s first world champion in boxing. “Like I said, I respect all the fighters. But before the fight I knew that Butaev would stop him because of the style and the pressure. Jamal James just got tired, and he got stopped. He fought very well in three rounds. Later on, he got tired. That’s what happens sometimes with the pressure, you know? Others might be winning two, three, four rounds, and later on they’re defeated.”

In the 10-round opener of Showtime’s two-bout broadcast Saturday night, junior welterweight knockout artist Brandun Lee (24-0, 22 KOs), of La Quinta, California, is scheduled to battle Brooklyn’s Zachary Ochoa (21-2, 7 KOs). Showtime’s telecast is set to start at 7 p.m. ET.

The subsequent Showtime Pay-Per-View event is slated to begin at 9 p.m. ET ($74.99).

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.