Boxing: HARRISON QUICK TO THE PUNCH, page 1

WBO world featherweight champion Scott Harrison will be punching challenger William Abelyan with the speed of a Formula One car when the two fighters meet tonight at the Braehead Arena, according to a university academic.

Dr Niall MacFarlane, a physiology lecturer at Glasgow University, has helped Harrison with his dietary preparations in his last two fights and the results were there to see when the impressively-toned champion weighed in two ounces under the nine-stone limit in Glasgow yesterday.

Harrison lost his title once to Manuel Medina before regaining it in a rematch but Dr MacFarlane insists the improvement in the Cambuslang fighter - especially in his hand speed - will give him a massive advantage when he takes on the American-based Armenian in the sixth defence of his title.

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