Showtime Boxing Card

Posted by Bill Scherer Jun 6, 2008

Vernon Forrest vs. Sergio Mora could be interesting. What we have here are two men who feel they haven't reached their full potential and see one another as a springboard to big money. Granted, Forrest is the current WBC junior middleweight champ, but he won the vacant title with a unanimous decision over Carlos Baldomir. Baldomir's a tough guy, but didn't have enough firepower at 154 to threaten Forrest.

At 37, Forrest needs to show some pyrotechnics against Mora if he wants a seriously lucrative fight before hanging the gloves up for good.

Mora, on the other hand, needs to light up the ring with Forrest's hide or he can plunk his career in a jar of formaldehyde and forget it. I know that sounds crazy since the former Contender star hasn't lost a pro bout, but his stale performances against mediocre opposition didn't win him any fans. The 27-year-old Mora is a decade younger than Forrest. He needs to look like it.

I recieved a note from BZA Public Relations asking for a prediction on the Carlos Quintana/Paul Williams II fight and had a hard time coming up with an answer. Although Quintana took William's WBO welterweight title rather convincingly in their first fight, I thought Williams looked flat and Quintana fought the fight of his life.

Williams is, depending on who you believe, somewhere between 6'2" and 6'4" which is freakishly tall for a welterweight ; he may simply be dead at the weight. If so, Quintana wins. But if Williams found a sensible way to manage cutting weight just one more time, he'll be better able to deal with Quintana's lateral movement and corner the Puerto Rican with the usual Williams' 100-punch-per-round assault. Williams by unanimous decision.