I thought hamed would beat him.....but all ESB poster think it was a one sided fighter biggest myth in boxing
Its all to easy after the fact ,, but at that stage of Hameds carreer i tthought Barrera would actually beat him easier than he did , Remember saying Barrera will take his punch , then his heart and then his pride,. Nassem just did'nt seem focused .
Naz definitely didn't seem focused and his lack of preparation and activity in the previous year cost him.
Barrera on points. I remembered getting ridiculed prior to the fight at college. I also think Morales would have stopped him late on.
Fancied nazeem to get the job done. always dangerous with his power. But looking back barrera was too good for him. It's one instance i dont believe the excuses etc. I just think barrera really was a quality operator as much as hamed was....barrera was better and would have beat him at any time even with a fully focused naz. I think naz's bottle went before the first bell...people claim he wasnt focused. I just think barrera had his measure. Naz was a bit of a bully....show-boating against inferior opponents. When it was time to meet his match with someone on an even higher skill level than him he showed his true colours. Its not a slight on nazeem because we're all a bit like that...but the truly elite fighters face the challenge and embrace it i think nazeem's bottle went. All the same time terrific fighter was naseem. Long time before we see that level of skill coming out of britain.
Barrera was known as a brawler as this point. A skilled brawler but a brawler. That was seen as suicide against a guy with the power of Naz. I like most thought Naz would catch him and stop him. Barrera fought a great fight though. I had it 8-4 though. So not like it was a shutout
Yes Prince Hamed had a bully mentality and as soon as he stepped up he was put in his place. As you say Hamed was a bit of a bottle job because he certainly bottled it when Frank This content is protected offered him a million pound to face Scott Harrison. I don't agree with you on the skill level though. Hamed had sheer athleticism and power more than anything else. Barrera had skills in abundance that's why he beat Hamed comfortably.
Dont agree that naseem wasn't a skilled fighter go back and youtube him ryan. Takes a certain level of skill to fight the way he fought...very few in Britain could land on him...thats not athleticism thats skill. Naseem would have beat harrison. As much as harrison is not the type to count out of a fight...naseem was on a higher level. Definetely a fight we should have seen tho. Here's a question for you ryan i know how highly you regard scott.......was he more skilled than naseem??
agree with odins beard think EM would have stopped him naz was quality fighter but as other posters say wasnt fightin best opposition when doing showboating also think was overated because he was popular and flashy ppl missed his flaws barrera was the major test in his career and he failed miserably
I don't need to youtube Hamed as I am a big fan who attended some of his earlier career fights in Scotland and I also seen him live at his pomp. I'll say it again Hamed was very entertaining, but he was more athletic and powerful than anything else, so you need to youtube him. As for the Hamed-Harrison fight we will never know because Hamed refused it. That was Hamed's biggest problem he never had the strength to come back from defeat unlike Harrison.
When both were young unbeaten 122lbs pups I was in awe of Barrera, and figured he would flatten Naseem. By the time the match happened though, I thought Naseem would have enough to get the job done. If Jones could beat MAB, then...
To be fair barrerra was a top top fighter. Think naseem for me loses more points not because he got beat against barrerra but that he never came back. It wasn't quite a finished career for me. When he was in against guys that were under his level he enjoyed nothing better than humiliating them. Cracks were showing against kelley and a few others that did match him...always looked like a man that couldnt handle someone that matched him. And when someone bettered him...he didnt want to know. It could simply be a case of timing and he had lost interest by that point but think it revealed his real mentality more than anything else.
I m not going to get in an argument about weather naseem was skilled or not ryan i think it's clear as day that he was but again it's all about opinions. You've got to understand that there not always avoiding harrison because they think he'll beat them it's business. Think yous had a list of fighters that avoided harrison...barerra, marquez, morales, now naseem. They all would have beat him. They were better fighters at the end of the day. Who was scott's best win against??
What i will add is that scott wouldnt have been an easy nights work for any of them....actually think naseem would have proved to be scotts hardest fight style wise out of all of them.