it's safe to say you've never seen PBF at 130...he had blazing hand speed at 130, with very good power and he wasn't afraid to close the show at 130...Hamed would've been destroyed by PBF...hell, Freitas, Corrales, and Casamayor all would've destroyed Hamed at 130...
Lets get a few things cleared up... 1. PBF would utterly outclass Hamed, it would not even be close. 2. Hamed did NOT train for the MAB fight, and a peak Hamed who used to actually throw combinations as opposed to single bombs would have beaten MAB. Hamed used to come in off the jab from both stances and would throw fast combinations, and wait for an opening to throw a bomb. At other times he did not even look for such an opening but his natural power was too much from even a shot that was not thrown with huge intent. 3. Hamed should not even have been at featherweight. The guy started as a flyweight, he was 5ft 2.5" and as a pro decided to move up to bantamweight. He then stepped up again to super bantam and again to feather. He was constantly facing guys who were bigger and with longer reaches than him and yet his power carried. Look at Guzman in terms of a fighter not taking their power up with them, Hamed took it from Bantam to Feather as a pro and sadly became so obsessed with his own image that he stopped training at all. 4. Why do I get the distinct impression that everytime this type of thread is started it is actually by someone who hates said fighter and wants to see a lot of scorn poured upon them?
Yeah, and I assess Tito by his performance against Winky, Tszyu by his performance against Hatton, De la Hoya by his performance against Sturm and JMM by his performance against Norwood.
Hamed is listed @ 5 foot 4 1/2 inches. PBF holds the advantage in every possibe attribute imaginable. There is nothing that hamed could have done to win the fight, nothing. This is not even fair or competitive.
I think it would be on sided, but not like the Gatti fight. Hamed would probably play the role of the guy trying to survive.
agreed Please provide a reliable source for the hamed did not train statement aside from hamed himself making exuses after the loss. You would have to be the stupidest person to ever walk the face of the earth to not train going into the biggest fight of your career against an elite fighter like MAB I disagree that he should have never been at featherweight. Pacquiao started at 107, should he never have been a featherweight? Manny was just as strong as anyone at 126 if not stronger. The whole too small for a weightclass argument only applies to guys wo have to dramatically alter their behaivior and or diet to make the weight hamed never had to do either. Because that is usually the case.
as much as a Hamed fan I am, I think PBF just has the style to beat him. Barrera didn't pressure Nas at all. He basically refused to fight him. So in effect Nas was following MAB around the ring all night and got counterpunched and outboxed. Marco would have gotten laid out if he had fought Nas the way he did Morales. So the strategy that MAB employed for that fight meshes perfectly with Mayweather's style. Of course with a big puncher like the Prince there's always a chance, but PBF would have to be considered the clear favorite here.
Naz' shitty training is chronicled in the documentary " THE LITTLE PRINCE, THE BIG FIGHT ..." . You should watch it. He hired a completely incompetent yes-man as his main trainer. Suarez has since then moved on to wreck the career of Acelino Freitas.
Barrera had nowhere the stature back then as he has now. He beat Bungu who at the time had a better track record at super bantam than did Barrera.