Hamed vs Barrera

Perhaps I am in the minority when I say Barrera could have beaten Hamed even if he wasn't as defensive minded as he was. Marco had one of the greatest offensive arsenals the lower weights had ever seen, and he had the speed and combination punching to not only beat Hamed to the punch, but stop him late. Hamed's power was overrated. He never knocked out anybody of Barrera's level. Never.

 

Indeed.
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Funny you should mention the Augie Sanchez fight. Naseem made hard work of a really average fighter that night, and ended up relying on his power, like he always had done. I still can't comprehend why Barrera was made such an underdog when he had fought and beat better opposition than anybody Hamed had ever fought. Not to mention Barrera was coming off the greatest performance of his career. The writing was on the wall.

 

Not in the slightest. Naz was a known quantity and a super star then globally at 126lbs. His amazing unorthodox power was well known and his biggest asset. Considering Barrera`s style pre Naz this was the reason "why" he was an overwhelming favourite.

 

Barrera wasnt stupid. He stuck to an excellent game plan. Plus Naz is the type of fighter that can carry his power for the full 12.Barrera didnt take any risks and rightly so. Either way Naz had an excellent chin and a KO would be highly unlikely. Naz`s problem was his immense ego and his discipline. His brothers were a bunch of ****s. And as he got older he got incredibly sloppier and lost all the technique he learnt at Wincobank and simply relied on his power as an equalizer. And Barrera can say what he likes as he was just as arrogant as Morales. Naz`s power was real thats a fact. But it only mattered of course if he could land.

 

Another misconception.

Marco Antonio Barrera had already started putting on Boxing clinics even before the Naseem Hamed fight. To add insult to injury, Emmanuel Stewart was in attendance for his spectacular showing against Salud, and despite championing Barrera in every imaginable way, he still couldn't get the best out of Hamed.

Hamed was a superstar based on his persona, not because he was looking good in any of his fights. He looked terrible against both Kelley and Sanchez, two fighters Barrera would have dominated, not taking a hit himself, before knocking them out. They were worlds apart, and the Salud and Morales performances alone should have made this obvious.

 

Manny Steward nor Oscar didnt do **** all for Naz during camp. The guy was too busy filming on C4 and making documentarys about himself.

 

Against Morales he lost. BOTH men put on an exceptional show that didnt involve any boxing. They simply beat each other up. The state of there faces after the bout as well as the scintillating action through it was proof of that. As for Barrera standing Sanchez or Kelley on there head thats just your opinion and merely supposition. The facts remain Naz WAS the star attraction at 126 and Barrera was not. Naz was known for his KO power and akward style. His peformances were sloppy vs Kelley and Sanchez but both ended in resounding KO`s. But that aside it was Naz`s meteroic rise that launched him into stardom. The Naz victory was what catapulted Barrera into the mainstream. Most hardcore fans were aware of his boxing abilities because of the Salud fight. But a few clinics doesnt make him a boxer. Like i said before the Naz fight he was viewed as a brawler. You only have to look to his previous fight with Morales for proof of that.

 

You should have seen his camp. It was a monumental joke. It was then i realised what an overrated turd Steward truly is.

 

Everything I have said on Naseem Hamed and Marco Antonio Barrera has already proven to be true. Hamed was "out-classed", despite being the ridiculously over-whelming favorite, and it was Barrera who established himself as the best 126lb fighter in the world. Hamed? Well he faded into obscurity and kept getting in trouble with the police. Marco had always showed ability to box, and always looked substantially better against higher class opposition than Hamed ever did. I'm not saying Marco should have been favorite, but the odds were silly and it proved to be the case.

 

Definitly the odds were wrong but thats boxing. They did the same with Hopkins vs Tito with Hopkins a massive outsider to win....

 

They did the same with Hopkins vs Pavlik. I was so close to betting on that fight. I was convinced, and you can see my posts leading up to the fight, that Hopkins was going to out-class Pavlik.

 

I stopped reading after the Junior Jones reference. I have watched a lot of Hamed. He always got tagged, and he was never talented enough or versatile enough to beat a well schooled fighter like Barrera.

 

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