Morales didn't have Barrera's discipline to stay tight for 12 rounds, so thats an interesting fight. JMM beats Hamed IMO. And as always I feel compelled to point out that the Hamed of the Sanchez, Barrera & Calvo fights wasn't the same guy who fought in 95, 96, 97.
As the Hutman already said, Morales didn't have the ring smarts of Barrera. Hamed's psychological games and style would draw Morales into an attack and because of his bad defense he would get hit a lot. Nobody who got hit by the Prince stayed upright. Morales' style would play into Hamed's hands. Eat that, kurwa!
Marquez woulda schooled him. Hamed KO's Morales though. Morales for all his skill didnt posses a brain, and never met a punch he could avoid.
Do we easily forget Erik Morales' legendary chin? He took Pacman's best for 12 rounds in the first fight... I dunno about Hamed stoppin Morales.
Agreed. I think the styles make for an exciting fight and a KO is possible, but Hamed aint gonna blitz Morales with power shots like he did to so many other cans.
McCullough did, but that oversight aside, I do think Hamed had a good chance of stopping Morales if the latter walked into a bomb.
Hamed looked like shit, even during his so-called prime. For example, against Kevin Kelley and Cesar Soto. Against McCullough he was hardly impressive either. Even against Manuel Medina he looked far from unbeatable.
suppose we'll really just have to agree to disagree. if you saw the 'little prince' documentary you'd know how little he was training by that time & you can even see a significant difference in his muscle tone and physical shape if nothing else, but if you dont see it you dont see it. whether you think it would make a difference in these MMs is entirely subjective but i always feel that by the Naz Barrera fought was hardly on top of his apex.
There is a possibility that Naz would have KOed Morales but the Mexican would be the favourite for me. McCullough took everything Naz threw at him and still went 12 rounds. He lacked the power to put Naz on the back foot, Morales is a different story all together. Morales/JMM UD
McCullough also had an inhuman ability to simply stand there and absorb punches and Hamed seemed to figure why bother, just dance around him and win easy I dont the McCullough fight is a good barometer for guaging a Hamed/Morales fight as Morales and The Pocket Rocket have nothing in common stylistically or in terms of talent, so its fallacy to imagine that Hamed would fight Morales the same way
