Jose Napoles vs Wilfred Benitez 147

Exactly ^.

 

"he could chop a guy up into ground round". I am sure Doug Lord, Cokes' mgr, would NOT disagree.

 

Lol, I'm sure he wouldn't,..poor ol' Curtis.

 

I'm not seeing the easy night some are, and I think Wilfred could win on his best night, he was that good. I just think more times than not though, he just wouldn't work enough, or get busy enough when he needed to as he showed in his biggest fights. Just didn't seem to have that, and he'd need that to win a decision here. He's not stopping Napoles how he typically fought, which again he wasn't throwing punches as hard as he should've in the spots he needed to. So I just see Napoles winning most of the fights in the end.

BTW... Imo He doesn't beat SRL though.

 

Maybe not far off the mark. I think Benitez' speed would cause problems here. Napoles had great timing tho and he would be a fair chance outworking Wilfred.

 

Napoles has the speed and throws many punches from many angles so I see him keeping Benitez on the defense and taking a decision.

 

I think Benitez was Faster then Napoles if only by a little.
The problem i have is that Benitez could be very inconsistent at times and his chin wasn't the best. Napoles could also have off days.
I lean towards Napoles

 

tough fight and hard to pick. I go with Benitez by decision, but I could also see Napoles roughing up Wilfred and maybe edging a decision.

 

In short, IMHO, Jose uses his unique skills, securing a UD, though not one sided, against a Wilfred, slipping and landing his counters but unable to ever get control of that fight.
My $0.02

 

Cheers L!! And Curtis was pretty damn terrific as well.