I think I came up with Mark Too Slap Johnson. Plenty of the aforementioned nicknames still piss mE off so well done there.
Devastating. Like Pernell was devastating because he knocked out Hurtado. Why do you stop at flyweight? Johnson was a fast southpaw with okay power. He ducked Arbachakov and all of his most dangerous contemporaries and lived off of the cock-sucking of guys like Max. Oh look, a black flyweight. Let's suck his dick. I don't care about anyone's take on the guy except for his power. He was not a big puncher. Slap. Slap. Slap.
Who did he stop? Tejedor had JUST gone the distance with the devastating punching Danny Romero.. Johnson iced him with one left hand. Raul Jaurez had JUST gone the distance with your boyfriend Arbachakov. Johnson stopped him in 8. He called out Arbachakov left and right. It wasn't Too Sharp unwilling to make that fight. As usual, you're "just talking."
Ward and Gatti having Irish and Italian backgrounds helped with the whole “old school” thing since the old eras had a lot of matchups among those ethnic lines. But Barrera-Morales got a lot of attention. 2 of the 3 fights were successful PPV headlines, and I don’t know if there’s ever been any fighter that Jim Lampley openly loved as much as he did Barrera. I actually thought that through 3 fights, Vazquez-Marquez was the best trilogy in terms of consistent action and close competition. Unfortunately they had that mismatch of a 4th fight.
Slappy is just a big excuse. Make him a non-american and no one would know him. He certainly wouldn't be a "HOFer". I don't think he deserved the decision vs Montiel, did he? Jimenez was certainly robbed.
The Boxing HOF became instantly unimportant when Hamed wasn't a first ballot guy. Was that the same year Slappy was initiated?
Hamed quit when he beat that Spanish bum in 2002 after Barrera whipped him like a Yemeni Yorkie, and wasnt inducted till 2015 Marcellus Johnson was inducted 2012