Harris leaves for Mexico Sunday

Former WBA Junior Welterweight champion `Vicious’ Vivian Harris is scheduled to leave his training camp in Las Vegas on Sunday and head to Mexico for a November 29 ring date with Ramon Alvarez. Harris will clash with Ramon for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) North American Junior Middleweight title. The fight would be held in Guanajuato. “I am in just about the best shape. I leave here on Sunday and head down to Mexico. I am heading down there on a mission, and that is to win the title. My eyes are on the prize,” Harris declared yesterday.
Next week’s fight would be the second in the Junior Middleweight division for the 36-year-old Guyanese who has campaigned mostly at the 140 pound limit.
“Right now I am just working on educating my hands a bit more as I cannot take anything for granted. I can’t say if I would remain in the junior middleweight division after this fight. I am taking it one day at a time. Focus is my word,” said Harris.
Alvarez, a 28-year-old from Jalisco, Mexico, has never fought outside his home country. He has been defeated four times in 26 fights, the last being a 12-round decision to Mario Alberto Lonzano on October 10, 2012.
Alvarez is the current World Boxing Organisation NABO Junior Middleweight champion. Harris was crowned champion in October 2002 following a stunning second round Technical Knock Out of champion Diosbelys Hurtado in Huston, Texas.
He successfully defended the title three times before being dethroned by little known Colombian Carlos Maussa via seventh round knockout.
The gifted Guyanese would secure three victories before unsuccessfully challenging Junior Witter of England for the WBC Junior Welterweight title. Harris’ would then lose six of his next nine fights over a four year period.
The USA-based Guyanese returned to winner’s valley in 2013 and has had a three fight victory streak since.

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