Zahir Raheem

[The Boxer]

i get the diaz's confused. which one just beat freitas.

[Kev]

I actually like him a a personality but his last two outings have looked poor.

He's in the horrible prediciment of being very hard to beat but entirely unexciting to watch meaning he'll find it hard to land one of the big names for a title shot.

very hard to beat is an overstatement imo.

I disagree. You could easily make a case for him being undefeated still. He lost a very close and somewhat debated decision to Rocky Juarez and had 3 point deductions in that fight and I personally felt he just about did enough to win the Freitas fight, messy affair that it was.

None of the guys at 135 would relish taking him on imo.

[Kev]

i get the diaz's confused. which one just beat freitas.

Juan

[Kev]

I'm not even going into his actual ability although I don't think as highly of him as some people do. Its just he's awful to watch, that's all I'm talking about.

A fight with Casamayor would be ugly as hell, I'd favor Casamayor even though he's getting older.

If he came into a fight with Juan Diaz in the kind of shape he came into the Cruz fight he would get a monumental beatdown. His legs looked totally shot, he was gassed much more than he should have been, his balance was absolutely ridiculous.

I don't think too much of Julio Diaz but then again right now I don't think too much of Raheem.

I wonder if he cuts too much weight, that's almost what it looks like, cause his legs are just weak, balance is horrible. You could see that a little in the Morales fight but not as much as the last two fights or the Juarez fight where his legs looked shot too.

They did say on the show that he took this fight on two weeks notice and had to drop over 20 lbs. He was on an IV the night before the fight to rehydrate.

I still hope to see something from him.

[Purist]

I actually like him a a personality but his last two outings have looked poor.

He's in the horrible prediciment of being very hard to beat but entirely unexciting to watch meaning he'll find it hard to land one of the big names for a title shot.

very hard to beat is an overstatement imo.

I disagree. You could easily make a case for him being undefeated still. He lost a very close and somewhat debated decision to Rocky Juarez and had 3 point deductions in that fight and I personally felt he just about did enough to win the Freitas fight, messy affair that it was.

None of the guys at 135 would relish taking him on imo.

Very true, thats why I'd compare him to Wright(not in terms of greatness) but in terms of he's a good fighter with an awkward and sometimes awful to watch style that looks sloppy and etc, but put him in against a top fighter and he can and has beat them. And no fighter wants to take risk of being in an ugly fight that they look bad in and end up losing their title too. No fighter would take the risk of fighting Zahir Raheem. With the fact that yeah he can look bad, but he also wins while doing it. What fighter is gonna take that chance?

They did say on the show that he took this fight on two weeks notice and had to drop over 20 lbs. He was on an IV the night before the fight to rehydrate.

I still hope to see something from him.

Funny how ESPN totally dissed him after the fight then

Tesitore is now on my hit list

[OumaFan]

I'm not even going into his actual ability although I don't think as highly of him as some people do. Its just he's awful to watch, that's all I'm talking about.

A fight with Casamayor would be ugly as hell, I'd favor Casamayor even though he's getting older.

If he came into a fight with Juan Diaz in the kind of shape he came into the Cruz fight he would get a monumental beatdown. His legs looked totally shot, he was gassed much more than he should have been, his balance was absolutely ridiculous.

I don't think too much of Julio Diaz but then again right now I don't think too much of Raheem.

I wonder if he cuts too much weight, that's almost what it looks like, cause his legs are just weak, balance is horrible. You could see that a little in the Morales fight but not as much as the last two fights or the Juarez fight where his legs looked shot too.

They did say on the show that he took this fight on two weeks notice and had to drop over 20 lbs. He was on an IV the night before the fight to rehydrate.

I still hope to see something from him.

I've gotten so tired of hearing Teddy Atlas talk that I have it on mute most of the time.

It does look like that though, that does make sense, I know he was drained in the Juarez fight, I don't know about the Freitas fight and there his legs and balance looked pretty bad too.

[OumaFan]

Most boring fighter in the world today?

I guess Taylor could be making a run for it.

The Winky fight was pretty good but that was because of Winky pressing the fight.

[amat]

Raheem isn't that much of a risk. He isn't avoided because he's a huge risk. Winky was avoided because he is a huge risk.

It's that he's completely one dimensional, throws one punch at a time, and has awful balance which makes for terrible fights that nobody likes. He just isn't that good of a fighter. He looked good beating Morales, but that was because Morales was a shell in the ring that night. In his follow up, he goes out and bent over at the hip every fight.

The guy he was fighting was made for a fast, accurate counterpuncher like Zahir Raheem should be. He was wide open and leading with his head, yet Raheem threw nothing as he was coming forward. He would either scoot away or tie up.

Then when Raheem was on the outside and the guy wasn't charging forward, he would lunge in with one punch and tie up. Raheem is not a top fighter imo, any of the champs, with the exception of maybe Julio Diaz, would tear him up.

[amat]

And you're right, there isn't a more boring fighter.