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Former WBA champ, Vivian Harris seeks redemption against undefeated Puerto Rican

Sep 11, 2015 Sports

Ten months after losing out to Ramon Alvarez for the vacant IBF North American super/welterweight title, former WBA Super/lightweight champion, Vivian Harris, returns to the ring in an effort to ignite a dying career when he faces rising undefeated star, Prichard ‘Digget’ Colon in the undercard action tonight at Ricoh Coliseum, Toronto Ontario Canada. The two will clash over 8 rounds in a super/welterweight fight.
The fight, one of many on ‘Premier Boxing Champions’ card, features light heavyweight world champion Adonis ‘Superman’ Stevenson who defends against Tommy ‘Kryptonite’ Karpency. Harris shot to prominence when he defeated Cuban/American, Diosbelys Hurtado, in October 2002 for the WBA Super/lightweight title. He successfully defended against Souleymane M’baye and twice against Oklay Urkal before his humiliating 7th round knockout to the unlikely Carlos Maussa in June 2005.
Harris then rebounded with three consecutive victories before losing to Junior Witter in the United Kingdom. He then defeated Octavio Narvaez but suffered another setback in his next fight against Noe Bolanos which was declared a no contest after a clash of heads in the 2nd of a scheduled 10 rounds fight. Harris then lost 6 fights, punctuated with a drawn decision over David Barnes before returning to his winning ways with a victories over Shakha Moore in Massachusetts, USA, Danny O’Conner, in Philadelphia, Pensylvania and Jorge Paez (Jnr) in Mexico before losing to Alvarez in November last year. The former world champion has not fought since. He has compiled a record of 45 bouts and won 32 of them, 19 by knockout while 2 of his bouts ended in stalemates. He has a 42% knockout ratio.
His opponent, Colon fights out of Puerto Rico and has compiled an impeccable 15-0-0 record with an 80% knockout ratio; twelve of his opponents failed to make it to the final bell. Colon commenced his professional career in February 2013 with a first round stoppage over Xavier Lasalle and fought quite frequently with his last fight occurring early last month when he stopped Michael Finney in the second of their six rounds affair.
Harris is by far the more experienced and would fancy his chances against an opponent who has fought most of his bouts in the USA. Colon did procure international experience when he travelled twice to the Dominican Republic in January last year to defeat Jose Vidal Soto (TKO 1) and Victor Moya (TKO 1) within the space of one month. In his last fight, last month, he stopped Michael Finney in the 2nd of a scheduled 6 rounder.

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