Quote Originally Posted by Starr
Quote Originally Posted by The_Mac10
Naz never stepped up until the Barrera fight.

In 95 and 96 he was mentioning fighting Morales and Barrera...What happened to that? Took him 6 years to grow some balls.

His best win was over Kelley, I reckon(ironically, Kev was the WBU champ at the time). And he got dropped what, three times?

Look, Naz was explosive back in the mid and even towards the late 90's, he woulda caused any of the top guys problems back at his best, but he must've been worried about getting exposed. Warren would have got him the big defining fights eventually, but they split, and Naz went back to the Augie Sanchez type opponents.
His best win was Steve Robinson. Everybody that never followed Naz's career doesn't think he stepped up until the Barerra fight. But Robinson was considered a huge step up and Naseem just made it an easy nights work.
Robinson had something like 9 losses, and was ordinary. Robinson! Pull the other one.

Sure, it was a step-up from who else he was facing at the time, but overall Robinson was cooked.