Nah, I think Gatti again takes a brutal beating. Hamed gets his ass kicked by Mayweather as well, especially the 2001 Hamed who was lazier and a tad slower with his reflexes. Oscar Suarez sucks,
i watched this fight the other week. on my version i haven't got the after fight interviews so i went and youtube and watched em. i laughed at merchant's reaction to floyd wanting to fight naz. :yep
Floyd always wanted to beat up Gatti for some reason. He been knew he could beat him. When somebody asked him a candid question on who he thought was the most overrated fighter he said Gatti without even thinking about it. This was during the long pre-hype for ODH-Mayweather.
The Brendan Ingle trained Naz would have given Floyd a few problem's but in 2001 Naz had lost the plot. His brother's were a real bad influence on his carear. They let him do and act as he pleased and it really ****ed him up. The fight with barrera is proof, I think dumping Ingle who trained him since he was a boy and going with Manny Steward was a terrible mistake and when you see him now looking like a bloated welterweight talking about comeback's it's just sad, what a waste of talent!
only a hamed homer would think that hamed would stand even the slightest chance of beating mayweather. mayweather would've outboxed him, and broke him down, possibly stopping him late. hamed knew he couldn't beat mayweather. that's why he ducked him when mayweather called him out when he was fighting at jr. lightweight.
The one wish of Floyd's, that I wish would have been granted:yep Oh..... how I would LOVE THAT FIGHT!!! The rarest of times that I'm a Mayweather FAN:yep I'd have bet the house on Floyd and sat in the PBF CHEERING SECTION Floyd's an ass, but Hamed's WORSE. At least when Floyd talks his **** he can fight with ELITE fighters. Hamed is a AT JOKE who couldnt. Floyd would beat the brakes off Hamed:deal
that was the one fight that I wanted to see but for some reason HBO didn't want to put the two in the same ring. if ever there was a superfight then mayweather vs hamed would have been it. of course floyd would of koed hamed brutally within 3 rounds:deal due to the ignorance of HBO we never got a chance to see floyd vs popo. after beating casa freitas wanted nothing to do with floyd. I think if casa had won that fight he would have challenged floyd. casa had way more heart then popo but he was always coming off a loss and could never get on a hot streak (3 years w/out losing):deal to warrant a floyd fight.
i do feel that floyd was calling many people out when he was younger and fighting at 130. shame he hasnt taken the same attitude at 140 and 147. seems odd that a once stellar division is now one of the worst. the main man today at 126 is chris john!
Floyd by destruction!! Floyd even back then had way to much 4 anyone around his weightclass! He was way faster, just as sharp and accurate, and had more power in those weightcalsses. Hamed would have been stopped b4 the 6th Rd!! BTW,..in the hernandez fight it was ruled a knock down but everyone knows it wasn't a punch, and the Judah fight could've been called a knock down, but Floyd was never even remotely hurt, or even stunned, and, so it made no difference in the outcome!:nono
well i think against a guy who was under 5"5 and mayweather has the reach of a 6" guy he could easily have kept haned at bay and won the fight over 12 rnds.
you know what, im a fan of prince naseem but often feel he is harshly criticised despite his achievements in the ring at an early age. literally unifying a division which was extremely hard at the time with the sanctioning bodies never agreeing. and the fact that Floyd Mayweather went on air on HBO ,after beating a guy like corrales, and saying he wanted to fight prince naseem, shows that naz was a top boxer, big attraction on both sides of the atlantic. and no-one can deny that.