After all these years, I feel Tito is still a little overrated. I recall the word "unbeatable" being bandied around b/f his Hopkins fight, which was ridiculous considering ODLH already exposed him by that point.

Basically, a good boxer--ie, one who backpedals, counterpunches, and uses a lot of movement--who also packs a little punch could relatively easily defang the myopic tito. Perhaps victories against aging backpedllers like pernell and Camacho made us think otherwise, but tito was always a straightforward, somewhat crude fighter. Roberto Duran would not just follow you around the ring (see Leonard II, as he stands in the middle of the ring refusing to play Leonards game….the real reason he quit if you watch the fight was because SRL was outpunching him during the close exchanges, not because he was keeping a distance).

Hopkins, winky, and odlh demonstrated to me that tito had no answer for an intelligent boxer in his prime . whether benetez is that person, I haven’t the slightest, but if he he fits the mold i wouldn’t bet against him.