Harris back in the ring on February 27 as a welterweight

`VICIOUS’ Vivian Harris has moved back down to the welterweight division and is expected to return to the ring before the end of this month.Harris confirmed yesterday that he would be back in the ring on February 27 in a fight scheduled for Las Vegas.

“My last fight was in the super welterweight division and I lost. I am now back as a welterweight and hope to do some damage,” Harris said yesterday from his training camp in Florida.
The 36-year-old Guyanese is expected to match gloves with Lawrence Hughes who is five years his junior.
Harris suffered a seventh-round knockout in his last fight when he challenged Mexican Ramon Alvarez for the IBF North American title in November. The fight against Hughes is over 10 rounds. “I am trying to get back into my winning ways. I am very determined to make things happen and will be giving this fight my best shot,” Harris said.
The former WBA super lightweight champion will leave his training camp on February 21 and head to Las Vegas. Harris was crowned WBA and IBA junior welterweight champion on October 19, 2002 after a second-round TKO of champion Diosbelys Hurtado in Huston, Texas.
He was 24 years old then and the victory earned him the right to be labelled the youngest Guyanese to win a world title.

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