Who do you rank higher all-time pound-for-pound: NASEEM HAMED or FERNANDO VARGAS?

Actually it is your post which reeks of bias.

A dominant champion over a very long period of time? What utter garbage. If you actually look back through the rankings of featherweight and the surrounding divisions at the time Naz was there you will see that guys like Erik Morales, Juan Manuel Marquez, Freddie Norwood, Luisito Espinosa, Junior Jones, and plenty more far better fighters than the absolute dross Hamed was battering through were all there to be fought, and Hamed never fought any of them. His best wins were Kevin Kelley and Vuyani Bungu - Vargas's were Winky Wright and Ike Quartey - see the difference? Look at the fighters that Morales and Barrera fought from the mid 90s to the early 2000s then look at who Hamed fought in the same period - he was anything but a dominant champion, he was an expert ducker who beat up ancient veterans, domestic nobodies, and unknown foreigners.

And 'exposed' is, for once, the perfect word for what Barrera did to Hamed, even though many people still don't realize it. I dislike the way that word is used any time someone loses, but in this case it fits perfectly. Hamed and his followers thought he was the second coming of Ali (many still do, it was the departure of Ingle that apparently curtailed this budding GOAT ), but some of us could see the extreme flaws and limitations in his game from day one - Barrera didn't beat him on the night, he exposed these flaws and limitations that were always there. Hamed had no defence except relying on reflexes, he had no all-round boxing skills, he had nothing except raw power and speed, and his dire technical abilities were thoroughly exposed by a superior technician.

 

Vargas's resume is clearly better.

 

Wright and Quartey are far far FAR better than ANYONE on Naz's resume, and guys like Castillejo, Campas and Marquez are as good as anyone on Naz's resume, easily as good as Medina, Vasquez, Soto... and far better than Paul Ingle.

Naz does have things in his favour in this argument, hence why I find it difficult to separate them, but resume definitely is not one of them.

 

IMO it was either that or Kelley, but I go Bungu as Naz's performance was better.

 

Naz was not undefeated as an amateur, you are wrong.