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He should have carried on fighting after the Barrera defeat and showed what a great fighter is all about or when he was in prison but he has left it way too late.
I think he'd peaked before he fought MAB. If he'd fought MAB a couple of years earlier it would have been a totally different fight.He was getting hit more and more with each fight a sign that his reflexes had slowed and that was the beggining of the end for a fighter with Naz's style. I think Naz knew that too and that's why he never came back.

He would still have been able to take a lot of fighters out with his power but would have also been a lot more likely to get caught himself and Naz did not like getting hit....
I think his slew of new trainers messed it up as well.

Stewart tried to reinvent the wheel and turn hamed into a boxer. And suarez just let him do whatever when it came to training nad let his talent do it. And Hamed probably never loving the putting in of work before a fight didnt do squat while Barerra trained like his life depended on it.

Hamed's gift was his power, but also his reflexes and his youth and he turned his back on his other gifts for the one power gift. And when that didnt work he had nothing else to fall back on.

But I doubt there's another barerra out there. Most of the lower weight guys are people who are blood and guts come straight forward fighters so it could be interesting.

But I'll believe it when I see it.