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Tony Harrison's Trainer Video Interview - ONTARIO, California – Jermell Charlo (33-1, 17 KOs) overcome a very tough challenge to close the show in the eleventh round with a stoppage of Tony Harrison (28-3, 21 KOs) to reclaim the WBC junior middleweight title.
Jermell Charlo Video Interview - ONTARIO, California – Jermell Charlo (33-1, 17 KOs) overcome a very tough challenge to close the show in the eleventh round with a stoppage of Tony Harrison (28-3, 21 KOs) to reclaim the WBC junior middleweight title.
Jermell Charlo pressed the action all fight, throwing a career high 403 power shots to capture the WBC junior middleweight title, landing 27%, while Tony Harrison landed 41%. Hard rounds to call, as they were within 2 landed punches of each other in 8 of 11 rounds.
Charlo, Harrison rematch scorecards official - ONTARIO, California – Jermell Charlo (33-1, 17 KOs) overcome a very tough challenge to close the show in the eleventh round with a stoppage of Tony Harrison (28-3, 21 KOs) to reclaim the WBC junior middleweight title. (photo by Mark Ortega)
By Keith Idec - ONTARIO, California – Jermell Charlo left no doubt about it this time. He knocked down Tony Harrison three times, twice in the 11th round, and stopped his nemesis to regain his WBC 154-pound championship in the main event of FOX’s tripleheader from Toyota Arena. Charlo first floored Harrison in the second round, but Harrison...
Charlo, Harrison Scorecard Live BoxingScene - ONTARIO, California – Tony Harrison and Jermell Charlo were well behaved at their weigh-in Friday for their rematch. (photos by Stephanie Trapp). Harrison taunted Charlo on stage while holding the WBC super welterweight championship belt he took from Charlo last December. Other than that, Charlo and Harrison didn’t do anything out of the ordinary after making weight for the grudge rematch FOX will televise Saturday night from Toyota Arena.
ONTARIO, California – All three judges scored Tony Harrison a winner over Jermell Charlo a year ago. His unanimous-decision defeat of the heavily favored Charlo was widely considered controversial, but it earned Harrison the WBC super welterweight title. As good as Harrison feels about beating Charlo, he isn’t convinced he’ll get the benefit of the doubt on the scorecards again Saturday night.
Tony Harrison has never been one to mince words, especially over the last year or so with Jermell Charlo. As much as both fighters have used social media or press conferences to sling words at one another, Harrison is convinced the pressure is more on Charlo to win their rematch tonight at the Toyota Arena in Ontario, California.
No one can say it hasn’t been built well. Give Tony Harrison and Jermell Charlo credit. They’ve turned an interesting but not exactly blazing first fight with a debatable decision into a rematch with real buzz. Whether their animosity is real or not, and it appears they don’t care for each other, they’ve both done a great job in selling the fight.
ONTARIO, California – Upsetting Jermell Charlo last December earned Tony Harrison the WBC super welterweight title and a career-high, seven-figure purse for their rematch. It did not, according to Harrison, change his second-class status entering their second fight. Harrison repeatedly referred to himself as “the B side” in this promotion following a press conference Thursday at Toyota Center, the site of their 12-round rematch Saturday night.