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Rocky won't go away because he will always be a good gatekeeper. He's not the most exciting fighter, and he will always lose to the best, but he is a technically solid fighter and tough kid. He will expose any pretenders, as he did last night with Barrios.

The problem with Juarez is that when he gets outclassed, he tends to lose in boring fashion. He won't let it all hang out when he's down on the cards and seems content to leave on his feet...it happened in Barerra 2 and the JMM fight. Soto was actually a pretty close fight. He's a pretty good fighter.
I agree, Juarez is a threat to anybody up to 135 lbs. As you stated he is a very solid fighter just lacks volume punching. I actually even thought that he beat MAB the first time. Chin, power and skills are there just lacks the fire I guess. If he is just as relenteless as his friend Juan Diaz, as Juan Diaz lacks the one punch power both of them will almost be unbeatable.
He almost has the mentality of an amateur fighter...like Kellerman pointed out last night, he looks for the perfect shot. If he doesn't think he'll land clean, he doesn't throw. That makes sense in the amateurs where partially blocked punches don't get scored and you need to land obvious clean connects to get the point. In the pro's, partially landed shots get counted by both the judges and compu-box. It makes fights like the Barrios fight look better for Barrios and worse for Juarez. It's the same thing in a fight like Calzaghe/Hopkins, where Calzaghe landed lots of partials, but very few clean blows. Hopkins landed clean when he threw, but he didn't throw enough to make up for all the partially landed ones from Calzaghe.