This is going to be a scorcher

I love the match ups where you have two mean guys getting in the ring with another, people who fought like they were mad all the time. Benn-McClellan, Hagler - Duran and more recently Casamayor-Campbell. Both of these fighters have that type of meanness if you know what I mean.

Granted Echols is only a shell at this point but in this bad run of his with no wins, he hasn't lost because of lack of effort. You can always count on him to fight hard and I really doubt Quillin strikes any fear in Echols, he's not a cowering guy. Also don't think he's going to crumble under Quillin's will, it's going to be a dogfight.

Quillin is just coming up though and he is dynamite. One of the most electrifying fighters in the ring today and no doubt he is going to knock everyone out until he gets knocked out imo. I haven't seen the 3 fights where he has gone to decision, but everytime I've seen him it's been almost impossible to fathom the he would ever be a guy to let up and drag to a decision. He possesses lightning speed and legitimate one punch power and doesn't waste it on jabs and lateral movement, lots of power punches.

One guy who does rely more on jabbing and circling is Chazz Witherspoon who is also fighting tonight, against a much lesser opponent. I haven't seen him in a while now, interested to see how he's progressing.

He's a decent boxer when he isn't pressing forward and firing power shots. That's been the failing of all the U.S. heavyweight guys recently, Guinn, Chambers and Brock all ultimately fell short of a title shot because they didn't possess any fire or confidence in moving forward. As a heavyweight, you are always going to have to have at least a streak of aggressiveness and I think it's important Chazz develops that because boxing behind a jab alone isn't going to cut it. He still seems to be struggling with that confidence in his own power but he looks great when he opens up, throws 100 punches a round and is fit enough not to tire out. Great stamina, but it's rare for him to show that out of the gate.

Tonight, he has a guy who's a few levels below him and has been knocked out before, hopefully he can make a statement, not drag this out and show that confidence in his own power that he can end the night early. I think we'll see that. I hope anyways.

And then on the undercard we have a few guys who are undefeated. Tommy Rainone I've seen before who is a pretty cocky guy with a bit of power, I imagine he will be on there.


I'm ready for this one.