Quote Originally Posted by amat
CC Mike. Completely agreed the guy is awesome. He's been fighting on some lowkey cards as of late but it won't be long before he EXPLODES imo.

And JT, about Julio.

He's not bad. The constant jab and slickness of Quintana got to him in their fight, it disrupted his timing and after a while he just threw one punch at a time and loaded up on everything.

He's still a good fighter with a powerful right hand, a good short puncher. I wish he had more of a jab. When he leads with the right he really reaches with it, and he tends to drop his hands afterwards. He's always had good balance, he's always had a fairly good defense and good instincts. I just think Quintana was a nightmare style matchup for him. A patient puncher who relies on timing facing a guy who was constantly putting a jab in his face.

He'll be fine. He's only 24 now I do believe. He has about a good of a corner as a young boxer can have.

The big thing is that he doesn't throw from the outside and sometimes he waits for the guy to throw to slip and try to find an opening to get inside. And that got him pretty far but Quintana was the first guy to double and triple up on the jab and Julio found himself staying on the outside.

And when he does throw from the outside to try to get in, it's with the right hand and while his right is good, it's what put down Davis down in their bout, it's not a punch I like him leading with especially from distance because it opens him up for counters and doesn't allow him opportunity to follow up.

But yeah, he's a good fighter with a lot of power and determination. I was big on him when he broke that guy's jaw. I would love to see him fight Kermit down the road.
I just want to say, Julio fought a couple days after I wrote this. While the competition wasn't good, the jab was AMAZING. He's been training with Mark Breland and Pernell Whitaker and in the bout he looked like a guy who had been working with the jab in front of everything his whole career. It was an amazing transformation, I think a couple more bouts and he is ready because he looked absolutely spectacular last time out. He lost, had a tough bout with Rivera and then improved on what he needed to. That's the sign of a guy who you feel comfortable picking to be a champion. 147 we all know is stacked, if Julio keeps coming on it might get a little deeper and even more top heavy.