Very much the case, his handspeed and bunch-punching were nowhere near their peak at '01/'02. Prime for prime, and not weight-drained, he'd whip ANY version of Manny at 126/130. Also, if he'd made the jump to Feather just a year earlier, instead of warring throughout 1999 at 122Ibs, his career would have lasted as long as Barrera's. Starvation ages a man's insides more than any war.