Quote Originally Posted by ono
Now i have your attention, Barrera wins a very close fight over a 25-1 natural featherweight and gets superlatives thrown at him.....some posters claiming this fight completes his legacy. Majority of posters go on 2 congratulate him for being in such a great fight. Now this is all good but then.....

You come to Ricky hatton who last week won a very close but unanimous decision over a 26-1 fighter who also happened to be a world champion, as wel as bein a naturally heavier fighter.

Strange how hatton gets labelled 'over rated' whereas the worst Barrera gets is 'exciting'

Also seems strange how a lot of u guys congratulate juarez on being a great fighter and 'the future' of the super featherweight division.

How come there isn't such plaudits for collazo? I think i have only seen Wacko give collazo the deserved credit.

IMHO both fights were very exciting and rather than bag on any of the fighters, we should congratulate and thank all 4 fighters for providin very good entertainment and value for money. At the end of the day any one of these fighters has more courage then the whole of this forum combined. They are the guys layin it all on the line....we are jus the guys sittin comfortably behind our keyboards, picking reasons to fault them.
Sorry, I missed it mate, did Barrera declare today that he was abandoning his jr. lightweight campaign to go back down to feather?

And if Ricky had been fighting for 16 years and had been steadily on everyone's p4p and elite lists for close to 10 of those years, constantly proving himself against the best, and if then Collazo was a well-respected and YOUNGER (six years) fighter on the rise, i think he'd get labeled as "being on the way to the end of a great career/ starting to show some cracks from age, etc." rather than "overrated/ maybe not that great in the first place." It's a bad analogy.