I can't believe that anyone in the featherweights would be able to live with his skillset and he'd clean up pretty quickly, and then I would expect he would move up and tear apart the Junior L/W as well. His style and arrogance would be like manna from Heaven for todays PPV market. Such a natural fighter who generated crazy power with his speed, timing and unorthodox style of fighting.
Multi flawed hype job lol. I know Hamed's hands were shot by this time and he wasn't training properly because of it, as such he took Barrera too lightly because of they way he'd been despatching all before him.
Only idiots believe this. Hamed was one of the most dominant featherweight champs of all time and one of the hardest hitting. He beat eight men ranked in the top five. He was ranked multiple years pound for pound and the number one in his division. There is no way he was 'fraud hypejob'. If he was, then that entire era should be embarrassed and Barrera gets no credit for one of his best wins.
Only held the 4th division WBO belt and did not chase the rematch. His legacy certainly badly tarnished.
that's a bit too dismissive of barrera, don't you think? another way to put it would be that he got beat by the first truly elite fighter he ever faced, retired, and never fought again.
Hamed would beat probably all of the current crop at featherweight. Hamed vs Russell would be interesting.
Blah blah blah. Stupid excuses like Wilder after Fury. Simply he got beat by the far better man. There's levels. Hamed stepped up and was beaten from pillar to post in a thoroughly one sided beatdown. by the smaller Barrera who moved up a weight class. Barrera exposed Hameds poor fundamentals, he would have beaten Hamed 100 times out of a 100.
You didn't like Hamed then I take it . He was very polarising, I personally thought he was a c@ck but there was no denying his skills. He did get beat by the better man on the night but he looked shot AF during the fight. His lifestyle between fights did him no favours as well, I think Ingle was quoted as saying he had to lose not far off 2 stone in 8 weeks to make the weight which is a massive amount for a featherweight let alone any other class. Barrerra done him fair and square but I think your'e a tad deluded if you think Barrera would win every time. Hamed and Kelley was a great fight as well and worth a revisit
I don't think he was ever quoted as saying that Barrera had egg weights in his gloves, although I may be mistaken on that......
Lomachenko completely schools him definitely Russell Jr and Valdez both probably beat him And Gervonta Davis has a good chance of KO'ing him (Naz is massively overrated by his fanboys) If he'd have not retired early like a ***** he'd have had multiple losses
At featherweight right now, the best fighters are Gary Russell Jr., Emanuel Navarrete, Mauricio Lara and Josh Warrington. The Prince cleans up.
I agree. Do you think he would last long in today's era? There's much more social media attention and hype that could easily make Hamed much more arrogant and possibly lazier.
He'd be even more unbearable, make no mistake about that. He'd eat today's featherweights for breakfast.