Top 10 featherweights of the past 10 years

Based on accomplishment (titles, big fights), longevity, opposition, and overall impact on the division(s). You can include fights from 122-130, but they must have at least spent some time in the featherweight division (i.e - no Mayweather or Corrales, or Israel Vasquez).

Here's my list.

1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Marco Antonio Barrera
3. Erik Morales
4. Naseem Hamed
5. Juan Manuel Marquez
6. Manuel Medina
7. Luisito Espinosa
8. In Jin Chi
9. Freddie Norwood
10. Derrick Gainer

 

1. Morales
2. Marquez
3. Barrera
4. Hamed
5. Vazquez
6. Ponce
7. Medina
8. John
9. Fana
10. Pacquiao, Bobby

 

Another Alabama_Man / Manny Pacquiao thread? :dunno:

 

based on who beats whom prime fo prime

1. Hamed
2. Pacquiao
3. Marquez
4. Barrera
5. Morales
6. Medina
7. John
8. Norwood

 

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I hate to break it you, Mr Fin, but your beloved little space monkey already got spanked into retirement by the guy you have at #4.

 

...when he was past his prime:tease:

Also, Hamed in his prime would probably have beaten Pac and Morales, which proved to be difficult for Barrera

 

prime? when? when he was fighitng scrubs in the UK? :dunno:

 

He was still prime, just up against the FIRST world class fighter he'd faced that wasn't shot.

Barrera would have kicked the shit out of any version of hamed.

Hamed was a flashy fraud, all style, no substance, no heart.

Morales, Pacman and Marquez all would have beaten the crap out of hamed too.

 

Hamed was slightly better than you make him out to be IMO, but his legacy was badly tarnished by his disappearance into the ether after the MAB defeat.

I agree with the rest of this though. Hamed only agreed to fight MAB after he and his team reasoned that MAB was done after the fight with Morales.

Bad decision... ::

 

Hamed's personality wasn't likeable. That is the thing some still haven't forgiven him. For a fraud he whupped a pretty good bunch of world champs

 

No- I haven't forgiven him for going away to get fat after he lost ONE fight. In doing so, he looked like he had been exposed.

Losing to MAB in itself is no disgrace. Hamed could have come back and demanded a rematch or mixed it with Erik or at least attempted to rebuild his career. But he didn't. He went away and became an overblown caractature of his former self.

That was unforgivable, and his legacy will always be badly tarnished for it.

 

Hamed didn't like boxing much before his career came to an abrupt end, I think he became fat and de facto quit not because of fear or because he was exposed, but because he couldn't be bothered keeping in shape, and training for a fight was beyond him at that point...even for the Barrera fight, the training docu shows him being half-assed, he wanted to enjoy the trappings of wealth and didn't much care about the fighting bit anymore

 

Correct

 

If a slightly-past-prime Naseem Hamed couldn't knock Wayne McCullough out (who had a granite chin), then he would have had a hard time budging either Marco Antonio Barrera or Erik Morales, who had good chins and better defence.
(I feel Barrera got iced by Junior Jones cos he took way too many flush bombs)

 

Hamed is one of the most underrated fighters of the past twenty years.

His split with Ingle to come to Manny Steward's KRONK stable, completely changed his style. He fell in love with his power and became too reliant on it,...plus he became lazy in training.

Still...one of the hardest punching featherweights of all time. AND, he didn't get KO'd by Barerra, nor was it a complete whitewash.

 

why is MAB at second, and not Bobby Pacquiao?

 

Why are you always following me?

 

This is a public forum sweetheart. I am allowed to give my oppinion.

 

That Bobby Pacquiao should be the SECOND best featherweight of the past 10 years?

 

a man with sense

 

A man with obvious lust for the space monkey, and no sense at all.

A prime Hamed, like the one that fought Kevin Kelley, would get battered from pillar to post by "prime" morales and pacman. With ease.

 

Kelley (who was possibly 'on-the-slide') was the first real 'step-up' for a prime Hamed and, aside from the KO result, the wheels were truly on the way to falling off.

 

I think Hamed was one of the best of the past 10 years but to say he would tool a prime Morales or Pacquiao is just being ignorant of what happened when he faced the top competition in the division. He lost. The end.

 

i was being sarcastic.

 

Hamed reminds me of Judah. Followed by lots of clueless boxing fans, wowed by their flashy southpaw style, but neither one of them ever beat an elite fighter. End of story.

Hamed has never beaten an elite fighter, in fact the ONLY time he faced an elite fighter, he was humiliated over 12 rounds.

When Hamed defeats an elite fighter, come back and we can discuss whether or not he would have beaten Morales or Pacman.

Until then Pacman and Morales KO 1 Space Monkey.

 

... in the first 10 seconds.

 

It doesn't come over well on internet forums. It's a limitation of the medium.

 

Pac woulda sent the Princess straight to Allah.

 

agreed. :bears: