Marco Antonio Barrera vs Naseem Hamed: Let's rewind.

If there was a picture next to the word gullible in the dictionary, your face would be on it. atsch

 

He was being sarcastic you doink.

 

naz by TKO. the 0 matters

naz at that time got speed and power, i would have picked him not only based on their last fight but according to previous fights as well.

 

Good post and thread. At the time Barrera would seem the ideal style to make Hamed look good, a come forward boxer who'd pressure, be technically good but still would eat a few punches. He also wasn't that fast and had been beaten twice by Jones. HE changed his style to a defensive boxer mover and fought a perfect disciplined fight to expose Hamed's flaws.

All the revisionists saying 'I knew Barrera would expose Hamed' for the most part are talking out their asses

 

Still to this day, I think Hamed could have won that fight, but MAB came out with a game plan, stuck to it, and won, very well. He destroyed Naz mentally that day, he never recovered unfortunately...fight fans lost a superb entertainer the day Naz lost, and I think he could well have won a rematch.

Not rose tinted.

 

I would have picked Barrera anyways.

History had shown that when a puncher meets a good chinned skilled boxer, the boxer more likely will prevail.

Cases in point:

Ali - Foreman
Holyfield - Tyson
Hopkins - Tito
Hagler - Hearns


Only Pac (a puncher) really defied the odds so far so many times. He should have really lost to JMM, Barrrera, Morales, etc. That is how extra ordinary this guy Pac is.

 

MAB wasn't look as such during that time

 

I think some would've picked MAB, but the majority rightly at the time went with Naz.

You know it dissapointed me for a long time that Naz never tried to get back on track. But the cracks were showing long before Barrera and really Naz's hunger had gone. Shame.

 

Barrera is moving up for the first against HBO's sweet child, the KO artist the flashiest mother****er alive. Barrera is the under dog, moving up for the first time against a so called superior man, with the craziest skills ever witnessed with the power to ko an Elephant with a hook...

Barrera is in with a monster, can he do it? I don't know.

 

This is a done subject...Hamed should have taken up the rematch clause he had in the contract...like dawson did with pascal....however against his first "TRUE" elite opponant he lost and did not believe he could beat Barerra, because if Hamed was confident he would fought him again.

He could have fought Morales or Marquez after the loss, he had great marketing power but he chose not too....why because they would have finished him.

Great athletic Talent...but poor true boxing skill & foundamentals.

ps I'm British.

 

One of the few fights I actually got right!! I always felt that if Hamed fought Barrera he'd get schooled......Won a nice little wager at the time too.

 

I remember telling my brother that Hamed was going to get his "0" taken from him when I found out he was facing Barrera. Of course I always gave Naz a punchers chance, being that he was very powerful. But he lacked true technique, and that's where the problem for the Prince was.

I was not impressed with Hamed getting dropped a couple of time against a past prime Kelly and getting dropped by Augie Sanchez. I was wrong when I had predicted that Soto was going to beat Hamed. Soto was doing well untill Hamed resorted to body slam him with wwe tactics to take Soto out of his gameplan. I knew Barrera wasn't going to put up with that. But I knew Hamed was going to attempt it. That the type of fighter he is.

Sure enough, what was it, the fourth? When he got Barrera into a headlock and took him down. Barrera got out the lock and punched him while still on the ground. Making Hamed realize, he wasn't the one you want to get dirty with.

Anybody that picked Hamed before the Barrera fight was just caught up with the hype.

 

Hamed would have been a strong favorite amongst his legion of fans that inhabit these boards,but no one else.I distinctly remember all(except one,a fellow that always preferred flash over substance as his favorite fighter ever was Hector Camacho)of my friends(as well as myself)that were boxing fans that were licking their lips in anticipation of Hamed finally getting into the ring against someone like Barrera.This was one fight that I nailed on the prediction.Hamed's predilection of psyching out and drawing his opponents into the wild off balance shootouts that he thrived in was not going to work against someone like MAB and that's exactly what happened.I remember Hamed's wrestling act against Soto thinking just wait until that ******* gets in with someone who'll spank him when he tries that bull**** and,lo and behold,the rest is history.