Why WAS Barrera not competitive

must be that barrera's style is not the right style to deal with pac's speed. whereas marquez has stylistic advantage over pac who is prone to counters. Morales on the other hand had the reach and size to keep pac at bay and on the first fight, pac was moving up in weight from 122 to 126 to 130

 

Barrera happens to be the least complete of the three......

Both Marquez and Morales are two fisted fighters that can punch with either hand.

You take away a certain hand from either Marquez or Morales, and they can still hurt you with the other hand.

The recipe to beat Pacquiao is to counter his straight left hand with a right hand.
MAB's right hand happens to not be of high caliber, and he's certainly has the weakest right hand of either Marquez or Morales.

You look at just about every fighter Pacquiao has dominated since his fights with MAB, and they happen to be fighters reliant and who's strongpoints are the left hook.
Pacquiao happens to be a master at taking a fighters left hook away by parrying it and blocking it with his right hand.

You take away MAB's left hand and whats left over is just an average fighter.......thus the reason Pacquiao completely dominated MAB both times in every facet of the game.

 

this makes me wonder if MAB was a lefty :think

 

JMM's style and counterpunching benefited him.

Morales' toughness, warrior mentality, and punching power was enough to make Pac respect him.

MAB wasn't as masterful as JMM at counterpunching, and he didn't hit as hard as Morales to keep Pac at bay. Therefore he was always going to be less competitive against Pac.

 

No it's the mexican style I think. Left hook to the body being the most important punch in the arsenal.

 

It is a interesting question because Barrera put on one of the all time greats performances against a southpaw when he flogged Prince Naseem.

 

A fading Naseem Hamed can't be compared to rising Manny Pacquiao that had a relentless, swarming style.

 

ahh ok they know about the liver shot

 

He was not fading...he was prime and lacked essential boxing skills that everyone knew before, but couldn't deal with his speed and unorthodox movement.
One of those few fights were I picked right and many picked wrong.
Sort of a Jr. Haye in attack mode....open to straight timed punches.

 

35-0 winning his last two by KO was fading?

 

He was not prime. You only have to look at his career, fight by fight, to notice his physical gifts were declining. His reflexes were slowing down, he was moving less around the ring, began throwing less combinations, was planting his feet, became more of a stationary target, etc. The fights leading up to that Barrera loss - Sanchez, Soto, Ingle, Kelley, etc - were all evidence of this. He was being hit more, and it was only his freakish power saved him in those fights.

Naseem Hamed was a flash-in-the-pan fighter that peaked early. By the time Barrera got to him, he was there for the taking. Morales, Pac, JMM, they all would have handed him his first loss.

So back to my point, he can't be compared to the Manny Pacquiao that we're talking about. Barrera couldn't handle him [Pacquiao] the same way he handled Naseem.

 

naz just failed to prepare for the fight properly and as mentioned barrera was a much better fundamentalist in the ring

 

Such few words, but summed up perfectly.

 

MAB is left-handed, but fighting from an orthodox stance; hence the power in the left hook. Other natural lefties fighting orthodox are DLH and Cotto.