thoughts on nicky cook?

[J !]

fair enough mate, no offence taken now.

and welcome.

[kerrminator]

cheers m8

[barryboy]

No problem bud
It's the long rangy boxers Scott can't handle, I'd give Harrison the benefit of the doubt for the first Medina fight as he really did look terrible but he struggled a bit in the 2nd fight as well after that great start & was cut pretty bad if I remember right, Polo beat him imo, I thought he was looking very dodgy in the later rounds of that one. As I've said before i'll support the guy and want him to win cos he's our only world champ but that doesn't mean I think he'll win. Chi is the only other top guy i'd give him a chance of beating because stylewise he's too flat footed and robotic for Marquez & Pacman being a southpaw who hits hard would give Scott nightmares as well. Hopefully Joan Guzman wins his eliminator and gets a chance at Harrison soon as that would be a great fight to watch for us
Oh and give Cook a few European defences then let him off the leash.

[kerrminator]

Yep good shout m8 but what I cant seem to understand is that he used to actually be a very handy boxer yet he seems to go for the flat footed approach now and try to use power and strength alone.

[barryboy]

The Patterson fight is a good example of his boxing skills, Harrison really surprised me as I wasn't expecting much from him but he was excellent that night, the combinations were flowing and he looked the business but he just looks so lumbering sometimes, maybe hearing everyone call him this big, strong featherweight who's huge for the weight has encouraged him to take a more aggressive approach, I don't know, but that's why I say maybe we've seen the best of Harrison, since about 2000 he's had some sort of title fight goin on so he's not had that many easy fights, even before he won the WBO title fights like Odumasi were hard struggles(Kebede is the obvious exception!)so we'll see how he looks in October though I hope they don't bring in some dud for him to just batter

[kerrminator]

I heard it might be Joan Guzman who imo looks not too shabby

[majestiC]

makes me laugh when harrison fans say hes world class u honestly beleive he can beat barrea, pac, macq, and morales when he is a one show every 3 fight fighter ?! hmmm