I still can't believe he lost to Medina, boy did I get that one wrong, along with many others I thought that Scott would be too strong and young for the Mexicain. Obviously the September rematch that Scott was hoping for is not going to happen, so what does everybody think should be Scotts next step?
Myself I am disappointed that Scott is not fighting ANYBODY this September, I do hope that he fights before the end of the year, I feel inactivity will do him no favoures at all.
I'd like to see him have a couple of warm up fights within the next six months, to shake off any ring rust and get his weight right and then take on Brodie, that fight would be a cracker, It wont happen but I can dream cant I.
I've still got a lot of faith in Scott and think he can be a World Champion again, but he needs to be back in the ring soon
What do you think fight fans?
What next for Scott Harrison?
Harrison has vowed to regain the WBO title he lost to Manuel Medina in July in his hometown of Glasgow. The decision was split in favour of the Mexican challenger, but there's no doubt Medina deserved to win. His better movement, workrate and experience befuddled the Scot for much of the fight.
"All great fighters lose, and it’s all about how you come back from defeat in this sport," said Harrison in the immediate aftermath of the fight.
But there's no doubt he has taken the defeat hard.
He is currently at the centre of a police probe after somebody called Colin Reid was hospitalised with a fractured jaw and broken nose following an incident at a pub in East Kilbride, Glasgow. Scott has been questioned, but not charged, so it looks like he may be able to fight sooner than first anticipated when that news broke.
I think the real problem with Scott is weightmaking. He refused to blame weight problems for the Medina shocker and intends to carry on at featherweight. I feel that's a mistake. The man is simply huge for the division, and while his strength worked to good effect in winning the WBO title with a comprehensive points win over Julio Pablo Chacon and in pounding out a one-sided decision over Wayne McCullough in his first defence, Medina nullified the champion's strength with superb lateral movement and quick attacks to head and body. Scott just didn't have the energy to chase him. Moreover, for a supposed non-puncher, Medina certainly doubled the champion over at times with long rights to the body. The Medina fight was Scott's 10th consecutive title fight since July 2000. That has mean't an awful lot of boiling down over the past three years, and even 26-year-olds can't get away with that. Scott has since blamed his lacklustre display on a virus (yeah!). "I don't think I was right from the start of the fight," he stated somewhat obviously. "I though it would pick up after a few rounds but after those few rounds I thought it would pick up in another few rounds but it just didn't happen.
"I couldn't pick it up and it just wasn't there. I was catching him with my jab but I couldn't follow it up, there was nothing in my body."
To me, them's the words of someone who dragged his body down to nine stone one time too many.
Still, there's always a chance Medina just had the style to beat Scott every night of the week. The rangy Mexican, who gave a peak Naz one of his hardest fights, was hardly as faded as many anticipated leading up to the fight and looked desperately unlucky to have lost his IBF featherweight title to Johnny Tapia just a year ago in Madison Square Garden. Unlike Chacon and McCullough, Medina refused to walk into the compact, powerful Scot, who, for all his strength, does like to pick his punches and fight in bursts. Medina wouldn't let him.
It was a rare error of judgement by Harrison's manager, Frank Maloney. Only a couple of months earlier, the Scot's big domestic rival, Michael Brodie, had turned down a fight with Medina at the MEN Arena in Manchester in June, facing Argentinian Juan Cabrera instead and winning comprehensively on points.
Still, Scott should have plenty of mileage left in the tank at 26. He rarely wastes a punch, has boxed only 22 times as a pro and the Medina setback was hardly a career-ending one. I would like to see Scott's next fight at super-featherweight. He has ready-made rivals in Scotland at the weight in British champion Alex Arthur and Commonwealth champion Craig Docherty. Get him in with the beatable Docherty first in my opinion, then we can see arguably the best Scottish showdown since Buchanan-Watt.
Stranger things have happened.
"All great fighters lose, and it’s all about how you come back from defeat in this sport," said Harrison in the immediate aftermath of the fight.
But there's no doubt he has taken the defeat hard.
He is currently at the centre of a police probe after somebody called Colin Reid was hospitalised with a fractured jaw and broken nose following an incident at a pub in East Kilbride, Glasgow. Scott has been questioned, but not charged, so it looks like he may be able to fight sooner than first anticipated when that news broke.
I think the real problem with Scott is weightmaking. He refused to blame weight problems for the Medina shocker and intends to carry on at featherweight. I feel that's a mistake. The man is simply huge for the division, and while his strength worked to good effect in winning the WBO title with a comprehensive points win over Julio Pablo Chacon and in pounding out a one-sided decision over Wayne McCullough in his first defence, Medina nullified the champion's strength with superb lateral movement and quick attacks to head and body. Scott just didn't have the energy to chase him. Moreover, for a supposed non-puncher, Medina certainly doubled the champion over at times with long rights to the body. The Medina fight was Scott's 10th consecutive title fight since July 2000. That has mean't an awful lot of boiling down over the past three years, and even 26-year-olds can't get away with that. Scott has since blamed his lacklustre display on a virus (yeah!). "I don't think I was right from the start of the fight," he stated somewhat obviously. "I though it would pick up after a few rounds but after those few rounds I thought it would pick up in another few rounds but it just didn't happen.
"I couldn't pick it up and it just wasn't there. I was catching him with my jab but I couldn't follow it up, there was nothing in my body."
To me, them's the words of someone who dragged his body down to nine stone one time too many.
Still, there's always a chance Medina just had the style to beat Scott every night of the week. The rangy Mexican, who gave a peak Naz one of his hardest fights, was hardly as faded as many anticipated leading up to the fight and looked desperately unlucky to have lost his IBF featherweight title to Johnny Tapia just a year ago in Madison Square Garden. Unlike Chacon and McCullough, Medina refused to walk into the compact, powerful Scot, who, for all his strength, does like to pick his punches and fight in bursts. Medina wouldn't let him.
It was a rare error of judgement by Harrison's manager, Frank Maloney. Only a couple of months earlier, the Scot's big domestic rival, Michael Brodie, had turned down a fight with Medina at the MEN Arena in Manchester in June, facing Argentinian Juan Cabrera instead and winning comprehensively on points.
Still, Scott should have plenty of mileage left in the tank at 26. He rarely wastes a punch, has boxed only 22 times as a pro and the Medina setback was hardly a career-ending one. I would like to see Scott's next fight at super-featherweight. He has ready-made rivals in Scotland at the weight in British champion Alex Arthur and Commonwealth champion Craig Docherty. Get him in with the beatable Docherty first in my opinion, then we can see arguably the best Scottish showdown since Buchanan-Watt.
Stranger things have happened.