http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN1o6mmXoJQ&feature=related Don't get it twisted. Morales was the truth.:deal
Morales is badass, and I would favour him to win too. But Hamed always has that 'Puncher's Chance' due to his crushing power. Always.
:good Erik is not hard to draw into a war, you do not want to be getting hit flush repeatdly from the prince.:nono
based off what just random chance or guessing? For 1 Hamed could never out box Morales. 2 Morales had an ATG chin and it would NOT get cracked by Hamed not at all. 3 Hamed didn't like the pressure that he got against a Barrera 4 Morales could apply sinister pressure and all out attack AND Morales was monstrously strong and tall at that weight. Every possible variable AND evidence when reflecting both careers points to the fact that Morales would have beat the hell out of him! I mean honestly what are you guys going off of? That Pacquiao KO'd Morales? A faded Morales beat a ridiculosly powerful/relentless Pacquiao in their first fight a fighter who had absolutely destroyed Barrera who had taken Hamed beating him from post to post.
Barrera did not apply pressure to Hamed. That's a common error. Barrera boxed off the back foot and let Hamed play the role of the agressor, picking him apart with sharp jabs and (at times) combinations, but he never pressed the issue, even when he staggered Hamed. He boxed very carefully and played the role of the counter-puncher.
Easy to draw into a war? Are you delusional? Where was the "war" that Hamed put up against Barrera? I failed to see the all out war that Hamed gave Barrera because the fight I saw was a fight where Hamed was throwing 1 punch at a time scared shitless because he was getting blasted by a great fighter in Barrera. Do you think Morales would have let up on Hamed any less? If he didn't fight a WAR with Barrera what the heck makes you think that he would fight a WAR with a bigger stronger Morales? expecially a PRIME morales.
Do you honestly think Hamed could outbox Morales? He'd never win a 12 round boxing match with Morales! If you think Morales can't counter punch then you haven't seen much of his career. Morales was a very tricky puncher VERY tricky. Morales would have had Hamed more confused and locked up into throwing 1 punch at a time than Barrera did.
Barrera boxed off the backfoot in that fight, Pressure Naz and you are in trouble, big ass major KTFO trouble. When he hit people flush at his best the looked like they had been touched by death.