I actually really like Raheem. The fight with Freitas was ugly but I felt Zahir just about did enough to win.
Regardless though he is a slick boxer and will pose problems for anyone at 135 imo.
His biggest problem is that he's an Ishe Smith type of fighter, a good slick, tactical fighter who can more than hold his own, but his style is not seen as particularly crowd pleasing and entertaining so he's always going to struggle to get the big fights.
I personally really like him though, I like his ring entrances coming in as an African tribal King and I enjoy watching slippery fighters.
I'm looking forward to this fight for sure. To be honest very rarely have I ever watched a FNF weekend and have actually heard of any of the fighters anyway so that doesn't bother me.
The Kelvin Davis fight was great last week, I've enjoyed both Samuel Miller fights and Jesse Feliciano stopping that prospect fighter a weeks back was great and aside from Jesse I'd never heard of any of them before so don't worry too much about the names not being recognisable.
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