Quote Originally Posted by Missy
Quote Originally Posted by greynotsoold
People forget that, as a young fighter Barrera was primarily a boxer. He altered his style once he began appearing on ppv fights, but the fighter that beat Eddie Cook, Jimenez for his first title, and so on, he was a boxer. For a couple years he started taking chances and just fighting, but that was a very brief period in his career. I've watched this guy since he was 18 and, I'm telling you, he was a boxer way before he came out winging left hooks and scoring early kos.
I'm with you GNO. I've got his career on dvd and early on he was a boxer (I've said it before but I guess since I've long defended MAB some doubt my opinion ) he had a spat as a crowd pleasing all out Chavez type and back to boxer. If he wasn't he would never have been able to switch back to boxing - which is when people started to notice the 'big' change. If it wasn't there to begin with he couldn't have switched.

Very interesting matchup maybe it was a promoter/managerial thing that kept them apart till the later stages of their careers. Shame really. Imagine them going at it round the time MAB/Morales I
Missy if you don't mind me asking where did you get his career set from ?? because im trying to find a place to buy career sets but im unsure on what sites to try because i don't know how good they are.