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At his peak Scott Harrison is incredibly fit and aggressive, swarming all over his ring rivals with fast, sharp and hurtful combinations of jabs, hooks and uppercuts. He also has a big heart and excellent punch resistance. But, the downside, performance-wise, is that Scott has proved inconsistent.
For example, the Scott Harrison who took apart Irish former WBC world super-bantamweight champion Wayne McCullough so ruthlessly in Glasgow in March 2003 is hard to square with the Harrison who lost to Manuel Medina.
And the ferocious tiger Harrison who, in 2004, destroyed William Abelyan (TKO RD3) and Walter Estrada in Glasgow is hard to square with the Scott Harrison who failed to impress totally when pitted against Colombian Victor Polo in his last WBO title defence in January 2005.
On that occasion, most Scottish press men at ringside, including myself, thought that a far-from-impressive Harrison had lost his title by around three rounds to the cagey Colombian challenger, Polo.
But arguably such inconsistency comes with the territory as far as Scott Harrison is concerned.
After all, Scott lost an early bout by cut eye stoppage to very ordinary journeyman fighter Miguel Mathews only to hugely impress by outscoring American ex-world champion Tom Johnson over 12 rounds in 2000 in London.
As his impressive array of Scottish fight game records show, Scott Harrison, the real Scott Harrison, when he is on song and in tune with his undoubted ring talents, is a formidable
operator.
However, there are some who will say that until he goes to the USA and defeats an Erik Morales or Marco Antonio Barrera, the jury is out on his true standing among the world's fistic elite.
Incidentally, Scott Harrison is an accomplished artist, painting in oils. He once painted a view of one of his own Scottish ring hero's (Ken Buchanan) Sparta amateur boxing gym in Edinburgh's McDonald Road.
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