Anything of youtube? As a big admirer of Harada I'd like to discuss this potential matchup? Can't check it at the moment as I'm supposed to be working!
I`ve got quite a bit of footage on Pascual, and I gotta say from what I have seen of the man Harada better be pouring on the pressure kamikaze style all night and keep him on the backfoot. Pascual preffered to be the aggressor and the one pressing the action, that way he could get more leverage on his punches with those tree trunk legs of his which is where he generated most of his vaunted power from. But if your forced on the defensive and retreat, you can`t get as much leverage as you would coming forward and this would take Perez out of his element somewhat as he wasn`t used to being pushed back. But if anyone can pull it off it would be Fighting Harada, at flyweight this guy was a freaking beast, he was like a miniature Joe Frazier/tazmanian devil clone high on speed with a two-fisted attack that never relented or eased up. I can see him now running right out to the center of the ring and getting into Perez`s chest and wailing away on the guy in close, but I do worry a bit for Harada as at flyweight he was still relatively young and not as defensively sound yet as he would become at bantam. If he leaves himself open during prolonged exchanges like he did against Jose Medel the first time it is quite conceivable that he could get caught with something big and not be able to recover. Perez was a better one punch hitter than Medel, so Harada would have to be respectful and not come waltzing recklessly with his two fisted attack on the guy or it may well be curtains for him. I`m sure Harada and his handlers would have been well aware of this though and would have fought accordingly, so with all that said I`ll pick Harada over fifteen in a bruising fight, one in which he or both men may vist the canvas more than once.
