Zahir Raheem

[Purist]

I actually like him a a personality but his last two outings have looked poor.

He's in the horrible prediciment of being very hard to beat but entirely unexciting to watch meaning he'll find it hard to land one of the big names for a title shot.

very hard to beat is an overstatement imo.

I disagree. You could easily make a case for him being undefeated still. He lost a very close and somewhat debated decision to Rocky Juarez and had 3 point deductions in that fight and I personally felt he just about did enough to win the Freitas fight, messy affair that it was.

None of the guys at 135 would relish taking him on imo.

Very true, thats why I'd compare him to Wright(not in terms of greatness) but in terms of he's a good fighter with an awkward and sometimes awful to watch style that looks sloppy and etc, but put him in against a top fighter and he can and has beat them. And no fighter wants to take risk of being in an ugly fight that they look bad in and end up losing their title too. No fighter would take the risk of fighting Zahir Raheem. With the fact that yeah he can look bad, but he also wins while doing it. What fighter is gonna take that chance?

They did say on the show that he took this fight on two weeks notice and had to drop over 20 lbs. He was on an IV the night before the fight to rehydrate.

I still hope to see something from him.

Funny how ESPN totally dissed him after the fight then

Tesitore is now on my hit list