I don't know much about the guy, except that he had two wins over Kennedy McKinney, lost to Hamed, and also had wins over Danny Romero and Jesus Salud as well as a number of title defenses against nondescript opposition. I've always that he was somewhat analogous to Juan Martin Coggi, who was a very good fighter but had no realistic claim to being the true #1 while Chavez and Whitaker were around. In this case Barrera and Morales are Whitaker and Chavez. Was this the case? Can anyone fill me in further?
How would you characterize his style? I see a lot of 12 rounders on his record, so I'm guessing he wasn't a venomous puncher.
He would've been a lot more popular if he were Mexican or Mexican-American. Guys like Tapia have pretty much nothing to point at to prove they were better.
Good, not great. Overrated by Hamed fans. Fact is, in 2 of the 3 fights before eventually moving up to 126 and facing Hamed, he barely beat Danny Romero and Ernesto Grey at 122. Johnny Tapia beat a better version of Romero more convincingly than Bungu did a few years before at a weight-superfly- where Romero was better suited than he was at 122. Grey was nothing special and had been stopped just a couple of years before fighting Bungu.