Well Julio isn't exactly the most active of fighters and I was surprised when he KO'd K9 because that fight looked like it was dragging to decision. Julio has power but he's still a bit raw. Hopefully he uses the jab because he didn't use it against Bundrage the same way he did against Lucero. Against Lucero, when training with Mark Breland and Pernell Whitaker, he had a very fluid jab, he was very balanced when he threw it and it added an entire outside element to his game.
Against Bundrage, no Breland or Whitaker, he had a jab but it wasn't the same jab. He was off balance with it a lot and also threw it almost squared up to Bundrage from the outside. It was lazy and he wasn't trying to work off of it. I wish he would have given them more time as I think he would have become a much better fighter. I was expecting him to come out great versus Bundrage and he lulled along until the KO.
So it's a bit hard for me to think that he is going to be any better then he was for the Bundrage fight and that just isn't exciting really to me. While he's improved greatly since the Quintana beat down, he doesn't make as many mistakes now as he did then like lunging in with the right hand all the time. But he is still there to be outboxed because he really doesn't have a game from the outside, he's predictable and not that fast. He has potential still though especially if he has a jab. Maybe no boxer in the game right now would benefit from a jab more then Joel Julio. He's wasting that power, power that ranks at the top of 154.
But I have no expectations. Ishe Smith has talent to but simply does not work enough. This is certainly his last chance if he doesn't want to show up fighting 6 rounders to get his name back up. He'll go the Joey Spina route because his style is garbage to watch and no one wants to endure 10 rounds of that if they don't have to. Surely a lot of people will be rooting for a Julio KO by about round 5 if things go the way I think they will. This is an ugly one.


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.I swear he has a Sandwich fetish.
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