How would Naz do against these 10

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Hello fellow posters,


In your opinion how would Naseem Hamed fair against these top fighters in and around 122+130lbs if they had met him?

I will give my verdict below

1. Abner Mares (Decisions Mares)
2. D. Ponce De Leon (TKO by 8 for Naz)
3. Mikey Garcia (Decisions Naz)
4. Vic Darchinyan (KO by 8 for Naz)
5. Nonito Donaire (Tough one)
6. Rigo (Tough one)
7. Yuriorkis Gamboa (KO by 5 for Naz)
8. Ricky Burns (TKO/KO before 12 by Naz)
9. Johnny Gonzalez (Decisions or KO's Gonzalez)
10. Somebody You Find Competitive

[MBE]

i think nas donaire would be a hell of a fight. real 50/50 fight.

i think rigondeoux would school him though. I also reckon he would dance around mares for an easy KO.

Think with hammed is, as emmanuel steward put it, he had the potential to be the greatest featherweight of all time. He just wasn't committed enough so I guess you can't tell what version would turn up for those big fights.

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i think nas donaire would be a hell of a fight. real 50/50 fight.

i think rigondeoux would school him though. I also reckon he would dance around mares for an easy KO.

Think with hammed is, as emmanuel steward put it, he had the potential to be the greatest featherweight of all time. He just wasn't committed enough so I guess you can't tell what version would turn up for those big fights.

Well said, he had great potential and charisma such a shame he never really showed the World what he could do.

[toshmurph]

1. Abner Mares - Mares roughs him up MAB style for the UD, maybe stops him late.

2. Ponce De Leon - Nas by UD if not late stoppage

3. Mikey Garcia - Garcia by mid to late KO

4. Vic Darchinyan - Nas by KO within 6

5. Nonito Donaire - Donaire by late KO or SD

6. Rigo - Rigondeax boxes Nas' ears off after being dropped wins by SD/UD

7. Gamboa - 50/50, both guys with good power and brittle chins. I definitely see both being dropped. Gamboa has the better fundamentals, but I can't see him surviving..

8. Ricky Burns - Irrelevant, Burns has never been a Featherweight

9. Johnny Gonzalez - Gonzalez by KO, Nas was there to be hit with the left hook, Johnny throws his with bad intentions!

10. Chris John - I truly feel he would give Nas fits, he's a good counter puncher with solid whiskers. I can see him winning by SD

[hectari]

Hello fellow posters,


In your opinion how would Naseem Hamed fair against these top fighters in and around 122+130lbs if they had met him?

I will give my verdict below

1. Abner Mares (Decisions Mares)
2. D. Ponce De Leon (TKO by 8 for Naz)
3. Mikey Garcia (Decisions Naz)
4. Vic Darchinyan (KO by 8 for Naz)
5. Nonito Donaire (Tough one)
6. Rigo (Tough one)
7. Yuriorkis Gamboa (KO by 5 for Naz)
8. Ricky Burns (TKO/KO before 12 by Naz)
9. Johnny Gonzalez (Decisions or KO's Gonzalez)
10. Somebody You Find Competitive

Naz pretty much can compete with any of these guys, he knocks a few out and a few of them could out box him. Naz is def underrated, his unorthodox style was his advantage it was crazy hard to time and he would throw sneaky power shots. he had those tree trunk legs too.

What made Naz fail is he lost the hunger early he started ballooning in weight and lost focus, once you lose the dedication to the sport and get soft you don't perform well.

[AztecWanker]

He gets KO'd by all of them except Ricky Butts.

[edgarg]

i think nas donaire would be a hell of a fight. real 50/50 fight.

i think rigondeoux would school him though. I also reckon he would dance around mares for an easy KO.

Think with hammed is, as emmanuel steward put it, he had the potential to be the greatest featherweight of all time. He just wasn't committed enough so I guess you can't tell what version would turn up for those big fights.

Perhaps it didn't suit Steward's comment to mention that Hamed was a long-time sufferer from crumbling hands and especially for the last 3-4 years before he retired. He lost interest at that time, and when you consider that he trained for about 20 days for Barrera it makes sense. He retired on a win,, beating a 30-0 opponent, something not enough are able to do.

[dan_cov]

I wouldn't feel comfortable picking him over any of them actually.

His best chances would probably be against Ponce & Mares. In fact I'd probably pick the whole lot over him but I'd give him a punchers chance.

[RiC-DiC]

1. Abner Mares (Mares by KO)
2. D. Ponce De Leon (PDL by KO or decision)
3. Mikey Garcia (Garcia by KO)
4. Vic Darchinyan (Hamed by decision)
5. Nonito Donaire (Donaire by KO)
6. Rigo (Rigo by decision or Hamed by KO)
7. Yuriorkis Gamboa (Gamboa decision or Hamed by KO)
8. Ricky Burns (Hamed by KO)
9. Johnny Gonzalez (Gonzalez by KO or decision)
10. Roman Martinez (Martinez by decision)

Hamed was entertaining, but he never really achieved anything of note.

[therealpugilist]

Hamed was entertaining, but he never really achieved anything of note.

My friend you don't know **** about boxing...he beat 9 title holders in 37 fights lineal featherweight champion. He beat every belt holder at the weight in his era