Quote Originally Posted by Mad_Dog
What in your opinion wen't wrong that night? For me it was a horrible night, it took me 1 hour to get to my brother's house to watch the fight. I was speeding and the police gave me a ticket. To top it off, I showed up without the beer and I was hated for the rest of the night.

What happend to NAZ that night? NAZ got hit often, and he did not land as many punches. which caused the judges to give points to MAB. I

What did Naz do different? do you mean what would NAZ do different? Please clarify.

What didn't he do? I think he should have hit MAB hard and knock him out. He did not Knock MAB out.
No matter how hard Naseem Hamed tried to knock out Barrera that would not and did not happen. Any version of Hamed would not knock out Barrera in the form that Barrera was in at that particular stage of his career. I've elaborated on this subject many times, but as has been mentioned Naz was neglecting his training etc and the documentary (as already mentioned) went some way to show how self interested and delusional Hamed had become. He was more concerned with getting into the best hotel suite available than the apparently small matter of facing the best featherweight in the world at that time.

How Hamed thought he could knock out Barrera with a single shot is beyond me and i think that he underestimated Barrera a great deal. Simply put, Barrera acted in a professional manner and won the fight by a clear margin showing his class.

I'm pretty sure that Naz may not have been best advised building up to and during the fight and may have been putting a little too much emphasis on the fact that Barrera was knocked out by Junior Jones... Mistake!
Also, the ridiculous Saurez/Steward partnership must have been causing only confusion with both vying for the role as head trainer! I lost a bit of respect for Manny Steward during this period as clearly he was interested in the money which is why he carried on working in that ridiculous role IMO and Hamed had stated that he considered the inexperienced Saurez as head trainer which is insulting to Steward. Manny Steward should have stated from the offset that either he trained Hamed as head coach or not at all because he clearly was not happy with the seemingly bit-part role that he played.
I think the appointment of Steward was aimed at sending a message to Hamed's future opponents that he had the Alleged best trainer in the world working with him, yet this failed to help him develop as a fighter and indeed he regressed IMO which further highlighted the fact that it was a mistake to part ways with Brendan Ingle over no more than money and ('supposedly') lies told in the book 'The Paddy and the Prince.'
However, many fighters part with their long term trainers but i'm of the opinion that if that is to be the case then money should not be an issue and progress as a fighter should. When i initially heard the stories that Hamed was going to appoint Steward i believed that this would help him develop further as a fighter which never turned out to be the case, and from what i've heard, Brendan Ingle was better off without the disrespectful Hamed.

All that said, i believe that the dedicated Hamed who defeated Steve Robinson was quite capable of beating anybody, including Marco Antonio Barrera (if not by KO).. and as i've said before, had Hamed spent more time on his ring craft then he did on his ring entrances (in the latter part of his career) then he would have gave himself a greater chance against Barrera.