Quote Originally Posted by ono View Post
Maybe controversial but Naseem Hamed with his loss to Barrera. His achievemets often get over-looked because he lost to MAB.

I also think David Haye was attached to his loss to Thompson unfairly. To me he learnt so much in that fight. It helped make him the fighter he is today. I think that fight is forgotten now anyway, but for a while people used to use that fight as an example as to why he'd never be a champ.
Barrera was the first naturally gifted fighter to take on hamed and naz got found out against his 1st genuine world class opposition.

Naz had plenty of chances to let his punches go and take the plunge to see whether he or marco was the better fighter - he chose to paw his left hand for 12rounds even after being told endless times by steward he was losing on points!!