The highly anticipated WBC super welterweight title rematch between WBC champion Tony “Superbad” Harrison (28-2, 21 KOs) and Jermell “Iron Man” Charlo (32-1, 16 KOs) will headline live in primetime on FOX December 21 from Toyota Arena in Ontario, California. The two were set to meet in June, but the rematch was postponed when Harrison suffered torn ligaments after spraining his ankle in training.
In the first meeting, Harrison deployed a tactical defensive strategy that blunted much of the force of Charlo’s high-powered offense in a 115-113, 115-113, 116-112 win.
Better Charlo fights hard from the beginning this time or an improved Harrison will defeat him again, and this time with a wide margin. I like Charlo in this rematch, I believe he will fight like Paul Williams did against Quintana in their rematch
Mike, great insight on your assessment! Excellent point!
Harrison – Charlo is pretty evenly matched. Charlo knows how to underwhelm but Harrison can impress with a susceptible defense.
The judges in the first fight were the main reason for the controversy: one had it 117-112 for Charlo, the other one 116-112 for Harrison. Maybe at least one of these judges should have just admitted that he was confused? The fight itself was mediocre at best, so the rematch can only get better :))
Wasnt the judge that had it 117-112 for charlo paid off by ODLH AND canelo. Lmao. Theres no such thing as confued or jus made a mistake. Its either u got it right or MUST have been paid off 🙂
I still believe there are at least as many inept judges as corrupt ones. Unfortunately, neither of them are usually held accountable.
I believe there are more inept judges than corupt ones. We are so quick to say corupt judges when in reality, they jus suck. Its easy to say judges were paid off when in reality, they werent. Judging today has had some far off calls for all types of fighters. People jus choose to say “corruption” when its a well known fighter like Canelo when in fact, its not paid off judges, jus bad decisions from them
We will never know the % of corrupt vs. inept, but both is a disgrace to the sport.
Yup. We can all agree on that. It will keep happening until they start facing the repercussions and suspension. Truth be told, they shld bring in honest credible ex elite fighterselite fighters such as Ward, etc to judge these fights.. the game wld change
Thats wishful thinking. Your theory is the commission keeps appointing inept judges to come up with scores that are obviously off. Everyone around the ring can judge a fight correctly but the actual judges? The judges are there to keep things a certain way. Notice they use the same suspects. I love the sport and can still call a spade a spade.
The Charlo brothers should fight each other, if Crawford will ever fight any 1 of the following: Lomachenko, Danny Garcia, Sergey Lipinets, Mikey Garcia, or Jose Ramirez (and all of these guys are contenders or champions of the WBO). So in other words, the Charlo brothers will never fight each other like Crawford will never fight any of those guys. It is possible Crawford fights some of these contenders by the WBO though (the Mean Machine and guys like the ones below are what will keep Crawford #1 pfp):
5. Mikka Shonena
6. Luis Alberto Veron
7. Custio Clayton
8. Mikael Zewski
The Charlo brothers are top guys at 154 and 160, and should get okay fights in 2020 and 2021. Spence is damaged goods at 147, Pacquiao should retire, Thurman and Porter both could test Crawford as well.
charlo will win the rematch.