Spazienza looks like that poor woman who was disfigured by her idiot friend's chimpanzee by the time the ref stops the slaughter A stoic, expressionless Cuevas has a sombrero placed on his head by a happy well-wisher as the ref is raising his hand in victory
At 168 Paz probably beats him. At 147 Paz loses, has a few moments, but loses and probably very very decisively in 5 rounds or under.
No, the WANTED truth is that Cuevas goes through Paz like a hot knife through butter. The roider doesn't have enough pop to keep Cuevas off, and he's too hittable. Cuevas destroys him inside of 5.
Cuevas had a more ruthless style than Roy, despite the fact that he was obviously not the same caliber fighter. Roy basically toyed with Paz for a few rounds, then, when he FELT LIKE turning it up... he stopped him. If Roy entered the Paz fight with the same mentality he had the Griffin rematch, I have the little doubt that the roid monkey wouldn't have lasted 3 rounds. Cuevas took no prisoners, and wasn't interested in toying with guys. So yes, I maintain, he'd stop Paz in under 5.
Yes... this is at welterweight and Pipino wouldn't spend a few rounds playing with him, he'd come out winging bombs from the get go You seem to be under the impression that Pazienza had some incredible chin... guys that couldn't come close to Cuevas's power hurt and dropped him ... he'd get absolutely fucking slaughtered
Roger Mayweather didn't hit like Cuevas but then again Roger Mayweather probably set his shots up a lot better. I don't know why people insist on picking a face-first lightweight who won a title in a splintered era and ponder how he might do against a consensus top 20 WW Champ. Fucking madness. Next Week: Dillion Whyte vs Prime Ali, who can win?
I admit, in this case I have done some trolling. I do believe Paz is underrated however. I get why he is so hated and he deserves all of it, but he was not a total bum. He was a solid fighter of his era
Considering Paz just had a goddamn Hollywood movie made about him, I wouldn't call him underrated at all.