Dusty Hernandez Harrison vs Ronald Montes (15-09-2023) Full Fight
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Transcript
00:00 All right, gentlemen, scheduled for six rounds.
00:03 One of the rules in the back, I want a good, clean fight.
00:05 Protect yourself at all times.
00:07 You must obey my commands.
00:08 Your trunks are a little high.
00:09 Dusty, your punches right at the top will be fine.
00:11 Sus Lopez, aqui bueno, debajo no.
00:14 Buenas fuertes, good luck, God bless.
00:16 ...with Sam Cross to Holly Tyler-Cruz, way out of D.C.
00:24 This guy's a big puncher from Columbia.
00:26 Oh, yeah.
00:27 He's coming here to fight.
00:28 Yes, Dusty was reveling for the chance to fight a tough assignment,
00:32 and he chose this guy.
00:34 Huge respect to Dusty for that.
00:36 He has got--Montez has 38 fights and an 89% knockout ratio.
00:42 Dusty is in the white trunks trimmed in red.
00:46 Montez is in the red Adidas shorts trimmed in white.
00:51 [crowd noise]
01:01 Feeling each other out.
01:03 This is a six-round fight.
01:04 You can see the experience of both these guys.
01:06 [crowd noise]
01:10 Six-round fight.
01:11 The pace will be a little bit different, right, Coach Eric?
01:14 Yeah.
01:15 [crowd noise]
01:18 They're going to go--they're going to move a little bit quicker.
01:20 Dusty is working on his speed and timing,
01:23 moving at a faster pace.
01:25 Dusty is getting all kinds of information from him without taking any risks.
01:29 Right.
01:31 He's a little slight body faints, moving in and out,
01:34 kind of seeing the body language of Montez and seeing how he reacts.
01:37 He's downloading that information.
01:41 Beautiful.
01:43 [crowd noise]
01:49 That's what really strikes me the most with Dusty is just the calmness.
01:52 He's so calm.
02:03 You're mixing in a lifetime of fighting with top-notch instruction for pretty
02:09 much all of Dusty's--you know, all of Dusty's life in career, right?
02:13 So the ring generalship is something that probably never gets lost,
02:18 especially with all that.
02:20 Never forget all the adversities he's had in his life.
02:22 He still had the greatest thing that sets you up for success,
02:25 and that was a evolved father, a strong male role model,
02:30 and just a model of his character after.
02:33 And Buddy Harrison did a great job with this young man.
02:36 Ain't no doubt.
02:43 You can't get through one conversation.
02:49 Beautiful shot.
02:52 Montez is sitting back a little too much.
02:54 He's got his front press on.
02:56 Dusty's taking a very unique approach.
02:59 Instead of trying to fight to southpaw with his backhand,
03:01 he's actually trying to use his jab and getting--looking at that left
03:05 and throwing left hooks off it, presumably to make him look over at the left
03:09 hand and maybe drop a right hand on him later in the fight, for sure.
03:28 Very technical base of the first round.
03:31 Montez didn't really offer any offense.
03:35 Dusty didn't give it to him.
03:38 This is a really great contrast to seeing the young brisco kid who was taking
03:44 unnecessary risk and had all the tools to make the fight easy on himself,
03:48 and now we're seeing an older veteran in Dusty Harrison that has all the tools
03:52 to make it easy on himself, and he doesn't have to prove anything
03:55 outside of winning the round.
03:57 Right.
03:59 And when we say older, he's still 28 years old.
04:01 He's 29.
04:02 29 years old.
04:03 Just turned 29, right?
04:05 He's got a lot of good years left of him.
04:08 Well, and Montez, as you always said, you're talking about a fighter that has
04:12 an 89% knockout rate, so you don't want to take any unnecessary risk with
04:16 somebody that might actually bring the thunder, right?
04:18 Right.
04:19 Speaking about his age, he's 29.
04:21 The first time I ever met him, he was 19 years old.
04:23 I had just fought a 10-round main event, and I got starved.
04:26 The locker room was empty outside of my father, figure Charles Crumpler,
04:30 and Dusty came in the back to console me and sat with me along with Buddy
04:34 for maybe 20 or 30 minutes once the venue was emptied out,
04:37 no one was there to care.
04:39 I think you learn a lot about someone when they're there for you in defeat
04:43 because he knew what I was going through, just to speak on his character a bit.
04:50 We're opening round two, the return of Dusty Harris.
04:55 A little bit faster pace this round by both of them.
04:59 Dusty looks like he's coming out to maybe take a little bit more risk
05:01 with that backhand now.
05:05 There he goes again with it.
05:07 Ooh, and there's a short--got to be alert.
05:10 There's a short kind of counter strike there by Montez.
05:15 I didn't necessarily see it coming.
05:19 Beautiful.
05:21 See, he didn't get greedy there.
05:22 Yeah.
05:23 Got right back to the position.
05:35 He's not liking those shots.
05:36 Montez is not liking them.
05:41 Dusty is talking to me about this fight beforehand.
05:46 He's like, "Hey, if Montez gets some shots on me at the beginning,
05:50 he's going to come hard, but I plan on weathering the storm
05:54 and take it away as well."
05:57 There's some good body work there by Harrison.
06:00 Just not a lot of offense from Montez, to be honest with you.
06:04 Dusty doing a great job controlling the distance.
06:06 He's not taking a lot of risk with that backhand.
06:10 Montez is afraid right now to throw the shot and commit
06:13 because he knows the counters are coming.
06:16 The other thing to know about this is this crowd might not even realize
06:21 that this is a guy, Dusty Harrison, in three or four fights,
06:25 if he can get his body back and suddenly go weight class,
06:27 he's going to be the guy that can challenge for a world title.
06:30 Yeah, 100%.
06:32 Somewhere between 60 and 75, although he campaigned most of his early career
06:36 well at the weight, he's got the height to carry that weight well.
06:40 Dusty's still a little soft, but he's just coming back.
06:43 He just lost all the weight.
06:45 Still got all the skills.
06:47 Skills behind the wheels.
06:48 That's right.
06:49 They're fighting this fight as a cruiserweight catch fight at 185.
06:58 That was a nice drive.
06:59 You see that's coming straight from the foot.
07:02 Beautiful work.
07:04 Two digs to the body with the left hook.
07:08 And the speed disparity is clear.
07:11 He's got hands, for sure.
07:15 There's a good right hand that gets in there over the top.
07:20 Cut the angle.
07:21 See, right there.
07:23 I feel like Dusty's trying to make him feel like a right hand's coming underneath,
07:26 but he's going to sweep it up top.
07:28 And there is a right hand up top, as you just mentioned, Dekuja.
07:32 I think he might actually be trying to sell the hook,
07:35 like the right hook underneath,
07:36 and where he's kind of lying with his body language
07:38 and trying to get Montez to drop that left a little bit.
07:43 And if you're Montez,
07:45 are you looking for just a specific counter shot at this point?
07:50 I mean, I think he's hoping that Dusty gets greedy with that right hand
07:54 and comes in, which he hasn't done.
07:56 He did one time a little bit early when he was testing it out, Montez caught him.
07:59 But I think a guy like Dusty Harrison,
08:03 it's going to be hard to catch him making the same mistake twice in a six-round fight.
08:10 And that replay just showed what you mentioned,
08:12 those two digs to the body and then that straight right hand through the gloves up top.
08:18 You notice how he didn't fall in when he landed that shot
08:21 and take away his distance that he needed.
08:24 He stayed right at fight range for himself, and he cut the angle for him.
08:29 Tens of thousands of rounds of sparring.
08:32 He knows.
08:34 And I'll tell you, when you talked about it,
08:36 you mentioned it when we were watching the David Brito fight.
08:40 It's just a level of calmness and a level that comes with experience
08:45 and just really championship pedigree, if you will.
08:48 Oh, absolutely.
08:51 He's a champion in quality for sure.
08:55 He's got to settle back into whatever his natural weight class is going to be now
08:59 and get his body back in condition.
09:01 Yep.
09:04 That takes time to get there.
09:06 Oh, yeah, you know, it's not just three years off.
09:08 He had three hard years.
09:10 Hard years, yeah.
09:12 He probably wasn't putting the best things in his body,
09:14 and the best types of things weren't happening to him all the time outside of the ring.
09:18 Yeah, the stress, for sure.
09:20 Beautiful.
09:24 He's definitely finding something with the sweeping left hook upstairs and downstairs now.
09:31 And it's starting -- believe it or not, it is starting to wear on Montez's face,
09:34 if you're taking a look at him.
09:40 So, see, I actually feel like that right hook underneath,
09:43 he's going to try to sell off of that later and throw a right hook over the top,
09:47 dip his shoulder down like that right hook's going to come under
09:49 and throw an overhand right or a right hook to the head.
09:54 Well, Cujo, you've been right calling him so far, so let's see.
09:58 You've been calling him pretty correctly.
10:00 There's a strong right hand that would hit the gloves.
10:03 Again, keeping the distance.
10:07 You see how short that jab is coming back at him.
10:09 He's giving Dusty everything he needs to attack with that short hook.
10:13 You know, I asked Gary Russell, once at the MGM,
10:16 what's the difference between a good and a great player?
10:18 There it is, and he gets a knockdown with a right hook to the body, Cujo.
10:23 I think he just called it.
10:30 And that is it, the return.
10:35 And Dusty has completely disciplined the entirety of the fight.
10:41 That is a third round and knockout for Dusty Hernandez Harrison.
10:47 As I was getting round to right before Dusty scored the knockout,
10:53 Gary Russell had told me at the MGM,
10:57 the difference between a good and a great fighter is them staying defensively disciplined.
11:02 Defensively disciplined.
11:03 But it's interesting, too, because, again, you called it.
11:07 You said you thought he was looking for that right hand to the body.
11:11 I thought he was going to sweep it up top off of it, but underneath is what's solid.
11:15 I thought he was going to try to establish it and then come up top with it,
11:18 but going underneath was enough.
11:20 He found it twice underneath and it ended the fight.
11:23 Dusty looked good.
11:28 That's how you get to the next level, not getting hit.
11:31 And I think it also had a lot to do with the frustration of Montez.
11:35 When you can't hit a guy, when you can't hit a guy, it starts to break you.
11:40 I fought Lionel Thompson in Vegas on a Mayweather show,
11:43 and I probably was landing two or three punches a round for several rounds,
11:46 and I'm telling you I was emotionally broken at that point.
11:50 You've got to believe Montez was feeling that way.
11:53 I'm not even sure he hit Dusty more than one time clean in the entirety of that fight.
11:57 You talk about it all the time.
11:59 It takes a lot of energy, honestly, to swing and miss,
12:03 and it's very frustrating if you don't see the angle to sweep.
12:06 Yeah, he didn't even have hardly a chance to get offense to even miss.
12:10 Exactly. Montez didn't even have the angles to really throw punches, let his hands go,
12:15 and oftentimes when you're watching a fight on television, you're yelling at the screen,
12:19 "Let your hands go! Let your hands go!"
12:21 It's not as easy as it seems, right?
12:23 Not when you're fighting an opponent of this caliber.
12:27 Well, this is a stellar, stellar return for Dusty Harrison.
12:33 Three and a--oh, we're going to take it to the ring.
12:37 [crowd cheering]
12:47 This is Dusty "Her name's Ed" Harrison!
12:51 (audience laughing)