By Bill "Two Scoops" Emes

Junior welterweight contender Mauricio Herrera said he saw a lot of flaws in WBC/WBA champion Danny Garcia. Herrera studied a lot of tapes and he says Garcia is not very active, wings his shots and panics when he sees his own blood. Herrera exposed some of those flaws on Saturday night in Bayamon, where he lost a close twelve round majority decision to Garcia, but many observers scored the fight a draw or had Herrera winning by a point or two.

"I don't think Danny was expecting me to come out like that. He was surprised and shocked tonight. I just hope that he gives me a rematch if he stays at 140. I was using  my jab, moving my head, using a lot of feints and staying alert," Herrera said. "He doesn't throw many punches. He wings a lot. Throws counter-shots. I knew that if I stick in the jab in there it would work for me."

"I saw the blood flow [when I busted his nose], I smelled blood. I was pumping my jab to continue the blood flowing, because I saw in other fights that when he starts to bleed he starts to panic. I saw that in his face and I wanted to keep that going. I didn't feel too much power. I thought he would punch harder because of how people talk about how big of a puncher that he is. When I felt his power I felt confident. I thought he would come forward and want to fight, so I when I saw him backing up I had to push the fight. Maybe he didn't throw as strong as he did in other fighters, but I sparred with a lot of counter-punchers who were really fast and better counter-punchers than him."