Fill in the blank: "Juan Manuel Marquez is ___________"

He exposed the glaring flaws and limitations in Hamed's all-round game that had always been there. Hamed's technical side was always weak but he thought his reflexes and power would always be enough, and when he was spoonfed a steady stream of mediocre mandatories, dire domestic opposition and faded veterans, he never had any reason to develop his skills. As soon as he faced a great fighter, these flaws and weaknesses were ruthlessly exposed. For me, this is NOT the definition of a great/elite/top quality boxer at all, and it doesn't even matter that he never bounced back. He was simply never good enough.

 

they were great days for british boxing watching him coming through the ranks though. he was an obnoxius twat but he had a unique style and was an all time hard puncher. he fell short of what he thought he was capable of but i mostly have good memories of him and his failed march to the top. the ring entrances were horrifyingly long winded though and his post fight interviews varied between very funny and downright annoying.
barrera did show him up and his flaws but if you're gonna be shown up its best to be shown up by a legend.

 

and the fact people still talk about him shows he made his mark on the sport.

 

This is a post I made in the Classic yesterday:

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Exactly. People seem to think he was a God because he could dazzle and embarrass fighters of the calibre of Steve Robinson (often the same guys who think Joe Calzaghe is a legend ATG because he could box rings round Jeff Lacy), without any thought to the standard of opposition being faced. Hamed fans cling to this myth that when he was young and with Brendan Ingle he was the third Sugar Ray, but then when Ingle left he became obsessed with one-punch KOs and the standard of his performance plummeted - total nonsense. Before Ingle left, the opposition Hamed was facing was diabolical, that was the reason he looked so good, but the glaring flaws in his all-round game were always there, always. Even as a fan of his back in the day, I always knew as soon as he faced his first top quality opponent, he would be beaten and beaten well. After Ingle left, the standard of opposition improved and this is why his performances deteriorated, the guys he was facing in his later years had a better idea of how to exploit his obvious weaknesses - though Hamed did manage to turn the clock back with the marvellous win over Bungu (the key reason why I don't accept this **** about him being amazing with Ingle and nothing without him, and also why I can only laugh at the view that Hamed was "past-prime" when he got to Barrera - he was 27!!).

I still think Hamed was Barrera's best win though. Yes, Morales was a clearly superior fighter to Hamed, but Barrera beat Hamed far more convincingly than he ever beat Morales. MAB was a master that night.




It appears we can agree over matters that don't involve a certain Welsh cherrypicker after all!!