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its official! JMM ducked naseem hamed!
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Originally posted by Zarco View Postthe only source posted was about a fluke offer by hameds team. you duck a fighter when he is your mandatory for 2 years and when your own trainer admits to it.
they might not be as good as jmm with hindsight but at the time they were ranked higher than jmm.
hamed fought a lot of top ranked guys.
none of them had lasting names though that's why people think hamed fought nobodies.
fact is those times marquez was his mandatory , he fought guys who people ranked higher than marquez.
now we can say marquez was way better than them but that wasn't the case back then.
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Originally posted by 2501 View PostHamed ducked him. Manny's word > your little 2 bit "article" written in notepad..
OOHOHHHHHHH
it was the first article i found.
the article is not bs 2501. it's what happened.
jmm didn't take it because 1. it was short notice and 2. they wanted more money.
i'm not making it up.
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Originally posted by Left Hook Tua View Postwho did he fight those 2 years jmm was the mandatory?
they might not be as good as jmm with hindsight but at the time they were ranked higher than jmm.
hamed fought a lot of top ranked guys.
none of them had lasting names though that's why people think hamed fought nobodies.
fact is those times marquez was his mandatory , he fought guys who people ranked higher than marquez.
now we can say marquez was way better than them but that wasn't the case back then.
"Marquez was a fighter we purposely avoided", those were his exact words. I will find it. And peace will be restored.
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Originally posted by Left Hook Tua View Postwho did he fight those 2 years jmm was the mandatory?
they might not be as good as jmm with hindsight but at the time they were ranked higher than jmm.
hamed fought a lot of top ranked guys.
none of them had lasting names though that's why people think hamed fought nobodies.
fact is those times marquez was his mandatory , he fought guys who people ranked higher than marquez.
now we can say marquez was way better than them but that wasn't the case back then.
imo marquez would have given hamed fits , unless he ko'd jmm he'd lose a decision
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Originally posted by Left Hook Tua View Postit's been 9-10 years.
it was the first article i found.
the article is not bs 2501. it's what happened.
jmm didn't take it because 1. it was short notice and 2. they wanted more money.
i'm not making it up.
Marquez was also considered one of the biggest prospects in the sport at that stage. Lower ranking than some, but like Mayweather before fighting G. Hernandez etc he was a much bigger name already. Steward openly admits today that he deliberately did everything possible to make that fight not happen.
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Originally posted by 2501 View Postbut still my friend, Manny Stewart went on live TV and said they ducked Marquez. And I'm not even talking about the vid Rich Bloke posted. There's another instance when Stewart said this and he said more directly.
"Marquez was a fighter we purposely avoided", those were his exact words. I will find it. And peace will be restored.
but marquez was offered a fight and he did turn it down.
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Originally posted by BennyST View PostWould you take the biggest fight of your career on less than one months notice when you're the mandatory and should have a full preparation? Would you then also take a ****ty paycheck for that?
Marquez was also considered one of the biggest prospects in the sport at that stage. Lower ranking than some, but like Mayweather before fighting G. Hernandez etc he was a much bigger name already. Steward openly admits today that he deliberately did everything possible to make that fight not happen.
and it wasn't a ****ty paycheck. it was more than he was making at the time.
ignacio said it was $400,000 and it wasn't enough.
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