vagabundo55 wrote:RagingRyan wrote:Creo que Soto puede ser el campeon mundial. Le escogiera en una pelea con Harrison o Chi ahora. Pero no pienso que puede derrotar Juan Manuel Marquez.
Yo nunca he visto a Harrison pero parece que Soto le parece ser que Soto le gana. Si podrias dar un poco de infomacion sobre el estilo de Harrison para saber como pelea mas o menos.. Y yo pienso que si Soto pelea como peleo contra Juarez.. si le gana a Chi. Pues en decir, pienso igual a lo que tu opinas. Juan Manuel Marquez tendria la experiencia para dar le una derrota a Soto.. por eso no le conviene pelear a Marquez.
Harrison's style has changed in recent times, and not for the better. I have seen all his most important fights either on television or live. He is an over-achiever, in my opinion, though a lot of people also underrate him. He turns up to fight, every fight: if you plan on meeting him head on, you need to be prepared mentally for a war.
He used to box his way in and let go the power shots in spurts whenever the chance arised. Then, when he got outboxed by Medina, it seemed to take that patient side away from him, and nowadays he tends to simply walk straight forward with no regard for defence or his opponents punches, trying to bomb them out, which fortunately he has mostly been able to do.
He claimed he had caught a virus while training in Tenerife (Spain) for the first Medina fight, and that he had even been vomiting in the dressing room prior to entering the ring. At the time I thought this was bullshit and that Medina had simply exposed limitations of his. However the rematch cast some new questions - he didn't outbox Medina but overwhelmed him with pressure, knocking him down at the end of the first round and then three times during the 10th and 11th before the stoppage. Medina still outboxed him for a period during the middle rounds, but this time Harrison seemed much much more fired up than in the first fight, and was successful in jumping on Medina. He looked so flat in the first fight that I think he might have actually been telling the truth about the virus.
Saying that, he again travelled to Spain in preparation for the Polo fight, and again - even though there was no illness - he looked flat during the fight. The draw was not a robbery, in my opinion, as Polo's jabs, though landing, did not actually mark up Harrison until late in the fight - around the 11th. That tells me they were pitter-patter. In contrast Harrison buzzed Polo numerous times, and actually had him on wobbly legs against the ropes two or three times. The fight balanced itself out because of this (IMO).
Anyway, the main thing to note is that when he trains in Spain (or Portugal) I don't think it mentally prepares him properly. He is a very serious man who is all business in the ring - and that type of fighter is at their best when they have isolation in their preparation. He trained in seclusion up in the mountainous Highlands for the Medina rematch, and for the fight against Abelyan (who many thought would beat Harrison), and it showed. Instead of relying on the heat to sweat out the pounds, he does it through hard work in a freezing cold climate. This makes him fitter/stronger in the ring and brings his weight down more naturally, though no way is he a natural featherweight - he must go up to at least 10st by fight time.
He again went through the sadistic army-inspired training regime in Fort William/Ben Nevis for his most recent fight against Brodie. In my opinion Brodie was the same Brodie as in the second Chi fight, yet Harrison got him out of there quicker than Chi - with a devastating left hook to the body. Chi is a winnable fight for Harrison as people forget that Brodie had him hurt during the mid rounds of their first fight (watching it live, I actually thought Brodie was close to stopping Chi at that point). Chi also was knocked down by a right hand against the limited banger Sugama (which the hometown referee never counted), and also went the distance against a 21 year old novice, in what looked at the time to be a WBU/WBF calibre mismatch. Looking at Chi's record and taking into account his style (plus the recent injury), I would favour Harrison by 8th round stoppage in a war. I think Chi's career highlight will be going the distance with Erik Morales.
Harrison - Marquez is the one that is getting talked about right now, and one I'd be interested in seeing. After looking awesome against Medina I haven't been all that impressed by Marquez (haven't seen the Licona fight, though) - the Gainer 'fight' was one of the all-time great stinkers, then he got dropped and looked very ragged at times versus Pacman (though did GREAT to get himself back in the fight), then against Salido (which I saw live) he basically stunk out the biggest stage he will ever fight on by indulging in a glorified sparring contest, then against Polo I had the fight around even at the midway point (which gave me a shock, as I thought he was going to stop Polo). If Harrison managed to 'get behind' Juan Manuel and take away his power, while emphasising his own, the fight could be VERY interesting. The problem for Scott is, I think Marquez would be prepared for his 'new' style, and would stop him in about 7 rounds - providing he stuck to boxing; counter-punching going backwards.
The Harrison who set up his power shots with a jab so effectively versus Chacon, and the Harrison whose precision combinations came razor close (it should have been stopped) to making him the first person to stop Wayne McCulloch, would have been a very tough opponent for any of the 'world' champions, but that Scott Harrison disappeared completely after the first Medina fight. Even Walter Estrada of Columbia - a fisherman who came in as a late sub for William Abelyan - was out-boxing him at times, before mysteriously wilting in the 6th. It has got to the stage where you have to give almost anyone a chance of out-boxing him because of the one-dimensional way he fights these days.
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