Who was the favorite? Barrera-Hamed

Hamed was a flawed fighter... he was undefeated till someone found a way to beat him, then the losses would've started coming... if u stayed homes and kept ur hands up, Hamed was easy prey... Barrera proved that... hamed tended to get folks to open up and in turn they got caught...possibly one of the best counterpuncher ever..and alot of power.

 

Morales and Bererra were a in a different league, as much as I loved him Hamed had no chance. Like with Hatton, the British public got a bit carried away...

 

Barrera introduced Hamed to Mr.Turnbuckle in the 12 th round ... a nice way to put an exclamation point on one of his best wins .

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Hamed was, I remember vividly. Barrera was moving up and considered a clear underdog, even though many thought he beat Morales a year earlier. Hamed was expecting to walk through him and probably didn't take him seriously as a threat. That win turned Barrera into an instant legend

 

Revisionists? This post is the definition of revisionism.

 

Barrera was a huge underog. He was considered a forward-moving, lead punching fighter. He'd been stopped by Junior Jones and been through the war and lost to Morales.
He was moving up in weight to take on a guy that people thought had possibly the biggest punch in featherweight history.
People said Barrera was tailor made for Hamed with his walk-in-and-slug-it-out style. They thought it would take a slick boxer to beat Hamed.
Little did they know, Barrera would turn into that boxer that night, with just enough of his old, tough-guy moxie to make Hamed not only look inferior as a boxer, but also reversed the roles and made himself the bully and Hamed the pipsqueak.

The truth about the England-based belief that Hamed was past his prime is simple. He did get all-get-out arrogant and stopped listening to anyone. But the truth is there was never a time in his career when he could've beat Barrera, or Morales, or Marquez or probably even Junoir Jones and Kennedy McKinney.
The Barrera fight was only slightly competitive, and proved Hamed was never a great.

 

Well In my view Barrera was favorite for me because he is better than Hamed . So I like Barrera very much .


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Hamed was favored at the time. I don't know by how much. Barrera had been written off as a major player in boxing afer his two losses to Junior Jones in late 96 & early 97. While he did regain the WBO super bantamweight champonship that he lost to Jones in 99 it would not be till 2000 than Barrera would reamerge as a major player in the sport with his close loss to countryman Erik Morales.

 

Barrera got the fight because everyone thought he won the fight with EM and got robbed. Hamed was the favorite, but MAB was a very live underdog and the insider boxing community was going with Barrera in a big way. MAB was my favorite fighter, it was my first live fight, and I was pretty sure MAB was going to take him to school since Hamed got wobbled bigtime by Sanchez and struggled mightily with Kelly, who I thought MAB would just destroy, which he later did.

David UK, you can tell yourself whatever you need to tell yourself, but Hamed never woke up on a day when he was on a level with Barrera. On the best day of his life and his career, he can't hang with Marco, JMM or EM. Any one of them would have worked Hamed and I think Hamed and his people knew it, which is why it took so long for him to step up. If he hadn't been forced by popular demand, he would have fought second tier guys and made big entrances for the rest of his career.

 

Don't see why you would say that. Morales never could beat MAB and he would have been much more likely to lose discipline and try to prove a point by slugging with Hamed.

Hamed wasn't what his people thought he was, true. That doesn't change the fact that he was a MASSIVE puncher, just terrible power in his shots. He reminds me of a featherweight Shavers. If he caught you clean, I don't care if you were 10x more skilled than him. You were in serious ****ing trouble. He had a vicious killer instinct too. A very entertaining fighter, whatever his faults.

I remember at one point late in the fight, MAB was in front of Hamed with his guard fully up and totally protecting himself, resting for a second. Hamed was frustrated and just let a straight left go full power right into MAB's forearms. The BOOM of it echoed all around the arena. That ****er could REALLY crack.