Hamed v Marquez

[Violent Demise]

I can understand if Marquez was disappointed about his fight with Norwood. But it still doesn't make sense why he would not take a big chance like that against the top name in the division. And fight for another 2 years against mostly unknown opponent's. And also Marquez was offered a rematch with Pacquiao, but he fights Chris John in his backyard for 35k then gets robbed. I just think Marquez's team or Marquez himself made a few bad choices in his career.

Marquez had a pulse. This right there automatically disqualified him from fighting Hamed. When MAB actually walked into the ring, Hamed was in shock, he was heard saying, "What is going on here?, usually my opponent is wheeled into the ring on a gurney, this guy might be able to even fight back, I don't like this." Hamed didn't fight very good fighters. There were several guys who could've schooled him as MAB did back then, Marquez was one of them.

So explain why Marquez POINT-BLANK REFUSED to fight Naz when offered the chance?

Maybe the contract was bullshit, maybe he was paying him back for POINT BLANK DUCKING him earlier. No way in hell was Marquez scared of that total fraud Naseem Hamed. Hamed was a joke and a clown. I doubt if most of the Mexican featherweights took him very seriously. Although he did manage to decision a respected journeyman Mexican name Ceasar Soto ( a strange fight if I remember, where Hamed resorted to a series of knees to beat his opponent, ref should have DQed him.), I thought I remember a quote from one of Barrera's camp that there are "20 Mexican featherweights tougher than Hamed" At the time I agreed with that quote and still do. Barerra exposed Hamed and that fight wasn't as close as the score cards suggested. Some schmuck gave me 5-2 in that fight and it was the easiest and surest $250 bucks I have ever made in my life. Vegas had the odds closer although I'm sure the Books in the UK had Hamed a huge favorite or something like that.

Never thought much of Kevin Kelley and Wayne McCullough was not much better, but this guy, Hamed, is another protected fighter who fought club fighters and talked mad smack and got beat down against a good fighter.

Man the key to being a rich and famous fighter is to fight bums. Just fight no names and talk a big game in knocking out nobodies and eventually you'll be 30-0. You can duck the whole of Mexico and make your fans believe you are actually one of the top guys in the World at your weight. Yeah, maybe someday you'll have to answer the bell against 1 real fighter, but then you can retire a rich man and still pretend you were a great fighter after getting your a*** whooped. I guess Hamed has a lot of company in taking this rout to "greatness" though. Hamed's career choices contained more ducks than the whole Country of Canada. Should I really start listing the fighters that Princess Naseem Hamed Ducked? My keyboard might wear out.

I hate Naseem but to say he fought all bums is ridiculous he won the WBO, WBC, titles from good opponents. Naz also fought Barrera who was on a good winning steak and his only loss in years was to Erik Morales who was undefeated and one of the top P4P fighters, so he if he was *Ducking* all the top Mexican fighters why would he have fought Barrera ?? who was one of the best Mexican fighters at that time. The fact is Marquez had beaten only a few goodish names like Agapito Sanchez, Julian Wheeler, when he offered Naseem a fight so it was High Risk/Low Reward fight. And you talk about Soto vs Naz controversy why don't you see Marquez vs Wheeler. That was even more controversial because Marquez was losing the fight coming into the last round and got a gift when the ref DQ Wheeler, and strangely awarded Marquez TKO victory. Marquez is one of my favorite fighters and yes he was the Number 1 contender but you have to realize Marquez wasn't really a known name at that time and like i said earlier it was a High Risk/Low Reward fight for Naz.

Hamed fought Barrera cuz Barrera was moving up in weight. And after the Morales fight Hamed thought Barrera would stand toe to toe with him. Which is something Hamed wanted. He wanted to score an impressive knock out over the smaller Barrera. Hamed figured wrong and got embarrassed instead. As for the Marquez-Wheeler fight, have your ever even seen the fight? From what I remember Wheeler was doing a lot of holding. And was warned several times. In the last round he was hurt and on the verge of being knocked out. When he again started holding and refused to let go. And in the process lost the fight. I saw no problem with the decision.