Why was Hamed so scared to fight Mayweather Jr.?

Actually Mayweather offered it a catchweight of 128 pounds.

 

That's right. And Foreman didn't hurt Ali.

Hamed had sick power, just makes you look like a hater trying to deny something so completely obvious.

 

I am a hater.hamed's #3 on my all-time boxer hate list.But I will admit that he was an excellent puncher.No one can take that away from him.But somehow his supporters attempt to put him in the pantheon of greats and I just don't agree with that.I don't see him as elite.The first time he fought an elite,he got beaten up.

 

Naz was a feather so this would have been a good fight for PBF...

 

another little guy floyd was wanting to pick on, even back then

 

No, I don't think any of them are trying to say he's an ATG.. well maybe an isolated few, but not many. However, when they say that he might have been the hardest punching featherweight of all time, they definitely have a case.

Who's your number one and two most hated?

 

I dunno about the hamed thing,Bernie.There are threads in the website that are dedicated to that question.It seems that there are so many of his supporters making excuses for him.And despite the fact that he routinely acted like a scumbag and without reason humiliated his opponents,his supporters get bent out of shape when others end up disliking him.Number one for me is Sugar Ray Leonard,one of the greatest fighters ever and one of the 3 greatest welterweights ever,but even in the Olympics when Howard Cosell tried to latch on to him as his new moneymaker,I just couldn't take his phony personality and bull**** even as it got worse throughout his career.No 2 for me would be Vinnie Pazienza.Pazienza was a classless bigmouth that fought at lightweight who broke his neck in a car accident.His recovery was inspirational and astonishing as he came back and built his way into a juniormiddleweight.But after his comeback,was the same person as before.You think he would have learned a little humility when he almost died in the accident but it seemed to make him more unbearable.

 

There are fighters who, in their prime, are practically unknockoutable and it is no disgrace to not knock them out or hurt them badly. Chuvalo, Chavez, LaMotta, Kid Gavilan, Henry Armstrong- these guys were practically unknockoutable anywhere near their prime, and you can add McColough to that list.

And yes, Hamed is one of, if not the, hardest punching featherweight of all time.

 

Thank you. Most people on forums do not state their bias so obviously. Now we can move on.

 

I don't care much for Pazienza either, no particular reason why, he just always struck me as a guy you wouldn't want to sit next to in a bar for some reason.

 

You're welcome.Yes,I am biased against the fighters that I dislike.No offense intended to you.

 

Me neither.Maybe in my case the first impression lingered and grew as his mouth never closed.

 

None taken, he rubs many people the wrong way.

 

LOL I thought Hamed was in a different weight class when Floyd was at 130.

 

Probably because he would have had his ass handed to him.