How does the board see Camacho doing in match ups ranging from 130 -140 against the following? Sandy Saddler 130 Ken Buchanon 135 Shane Mosely 135 Miguel Cotto 140
My personal opinion is that he loses to all of them:-( If he had fought Saddler that would have been a street fight foul fest, AND Camacho would have got his a$$ handed to him.. Mosley and Cotto would have had to much power for him, Buchannan would have been the most competitive match but Ken was too talented to lose to him also.. Camacho was fair at 135 , but he lost to Greg Haugen a tough guy with limited talent, and Camacho lost the rematch also but was given an early XMAS present, sorry i don't see Hector doing that well against, Cotto, Mosley, Saddler, and Ken B..
He loses to Buchanan, who had a harder edge about him as a fighter...as he proved vs Laguna, Mosely and Cotto because they were more dynamic and with power, and of course, he would have been roughed up and brutalized to Saddler. He would have gone the distance with all four, but he would have lost to them as well.
I really liked Haugen, but all four of these guys were a league above Greg. Hector would have found that out.
You think the Camacho who fought Haugen was prime Camacho? Far from it. Camacho started fading after the Davis fight in 1987. Also, Moseley was no Rosario in terms of punching power at 135. Camacho w12 Moseley Camacho w15 Buchanon At 140 Camacho was pretty mediocre, so Cotto w12 Camacho I don't know enough about Sadler to make a call on that one.
I think Camacho would be too basic in his style to beat Buchanan over 15. He basically beat fighters by outspeeding them and overwhelming with the quick punches in bunches, but nothing he throws is going to bother Buchanan and he's the lesser defensive fighter, overall technical boxer and jabber of the two. I don't see him as being slick enough to control the exchanges for longer than the first 4-5 rounds and Buchanan won't just be mindlessly following him or standing still at ring centre.he'll be looking to draw Camacho in and control the ring himself, getting that rapier jab going to disrupt those combinations.Camacho's head movement was always poor, and he's going to have a tough time solving it.A tougher time i think than Buchanan will have in getting to grips with Camacho's speed edge and combinations. A classy fight where Camacho jumps out to an early lead and then gets slowly solved and outboxed.Buchanan not slow or static enough for Camacho to really excel. Mosley i think could go either way.Neither fighter is great at transitioning cleanly from their offensive flurries and truly integrating a strong level of defensive finesse...neither fighter is likely to bother the other much with their power in terms of a stoppage, though i'd submit that Mosley hit more than hard enough to possibly bring out the fight to survive mindset in Hector. On the other hand Mosley doesn't inspire much confidence against movers and Camacho should be able to dictate exchanges with some success and do his stick and move\flurry thing better than against a straight-punching finesse fighter with good feet like Buchanan.Mosley likes to get set before he throws, Camacho's good jab could control things for long stretches as he uses it for space and setting his own combinations up.
Your really over hyping Buchanan, the same guy that got bricked by Duran, Camacho would box circles around him
yeah that bum Duran.Not like Camacho would have had any trouble at all with him.I think i'll have to consider things here.
I rate Camacho higher than most people on this site, but it's really difficult for me to see him beating a prime Mosley. However, I'm fairly confident that he'd get past Buchanan and Cotto. Yep, I just said that.
The guys mentioned were just that little bit better than Camacho. I enjoyed watching Hector fight. He was a character.
He loses a close one to Cotto at 140, but beats everyone else in close fights, if this was the pre-Rosario Camacho.
