Naz by virtue of having a HUGE edge in speed, and by virtue of being less available to be hit. Lopez probably puts Naz in serious trouble once or twice, but he'd simply eat too many shots, and Naz ain't the guy you wanna eat a ton of shots against. Hamed KO 7.
I know Lopez is pretty much an idol for some, but I think he was a very very average fighter. Stiff and slow. I can't see any other outcome than him getting laid out
Lopez might be the hardest hitting 126 pound fighter of all time but he's way too easy to hit and slow-footed to deal with a dude like Hamed... I see only two scenarios here... 1) Hamed wins by virtue of just landing too many bombs and eventually gets Little Red out of there OR 2) Hamed has everything his way for a couple of rounds, gets rocked by a bomb from Lopez and elects to play things a bit safer, easily cruising to a decision victory with just movement and potshotting I'm 99.9% certain one or the other would be the outcome of this bout
Lopez is way too slow and gets bombed out in less than 6 rounds. And that's coming from a Hamed-is-overrated observer...
no. It was conspicuously terrible. His offense though had some subtly to it. He was good at landing guys right on the end of his punches, so that even with minimal exertion, the leverage from the shots alone was jarring.
Yeah, I don't understand how he generated so much power from such slow punches. All his punches were a bit like Foreman Vs Moorer ::
:: yeah and thrown with these skinny toothpick arms... He didn't even load them up or throw haymakers... right hand straight as an arrow, thrown correctly and slowly and then the other guy dies All the guys who challenged him for the title would be thinking "I got this... I can't miss!" and going to town on Lopez and then he'd land one and they'd crumple to the floor... His fights are funny because his hair just bops around as he gets smashed in the face
