Fernando Vargas vs Harry Simon @154

Pre-Tito Vargas. I wanted to see this at the time.

 

Woulda been a helluva fight! Simon's workrate and toughness would have pushed Vargas to the limit, but I think Nando places his shots better, and his edge in power wins out as he lands the more telling punches. Vargas by close decision.

 

agree... Vargas would need to use his jab, keep his discipline, avoid trading

 

that's kind of asking a lot of Vargas

 

Not really. Vargas showed he could fight disciplined.

 

wright picked vargas in this matchup

 

He did it beautifully against Ike

 

Agreed. That was an excellent and rarely talked about fight. Vargas won it clear but Quartey was there all the way.

 

at that point in time quartey was just not as good of a 154lber as simon.

 

no, but he was still a dangerous, highly credible opponent with a great jab of his own

 

it was a good, albeit narrow victory for vargas over an excellent fighter who was past his peak and extremely inactive. not to mention vargas was nearly KOd in round 9 or 10

 

Quartey was a more skillful guy than Simon, though... it was a good achievement on Vargas's part to outbox him

 

Harry Simon is yet to master that slick Inner-Oxnard style.

Vargas KO3.

 

awful pick

 

How many inner-Oxnard fighters did Simon face?