Great Fight: Barrera vs. Hamed

          Sharing with you here one of the great fights that we have during the year 2001. This time, this war was between the much famous Marco Antonio Barrera of Mexico against Prince Naseem Hamed. It was mentioned that this fight is going to be a preliminary fight for Barrera as he prepares for his coming fight with the Filipino popular fighter Manny Pacquiao.

          The first round went to Barrera as he tugged in a couple of times Hamed. The latter survived the round but was obviously hammered by those big blows coming from Barrera.

 
                        

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          However, in the 2nd and 3rd rounds, it was clearly  a turn around to what had transpired during the opening round as Hamed went to war and exacted revenge by hammering Barrera with some solid shots to the body. Barrera later showed some blood below his eyes on the third round. The match was still a close one at this juncture that both had 48 total score. 

          Somehow, the Prince's powerful big left hand was unsuccessful mostly during the previous rounds yet at the remaining 20 seconds of round 5, he unleashed a powerful big left hand that staggered Barrera. So far, Barrera was hesitant to make use of his well known jabs thus resulting to this round belonging to Hamed.

          However the next round belonged to Barrera as he became busy with his jabs and one of those made a mark on Hamed's face as he was hit with a big left punch from Barrera. In the next round, at 1 minute past the round, Barrera made a powerful right to the face of Hamed.  Blood started to come out from Hamed's nose at this round. Somehow, Barrera's jabs were effective at this point. 

         Until the end of the 9th round, Barrera was leading the fight by 2 points. At the end of round 10, Barrera was told to throw more punches; however it was clear though that at this point of the fight, Hamed needed a knock out to win it. 

          At the end of 11th round, it was clear that Barrera was ahead in the scorecards of the three judges. By copybox number, round 12 was all Barrera. And when the ring announcer, Michael Buffer,  read the decision, it was a unanimous decision for Marco Antonio Barrera. 

                                        

Cotto Charges Again

           “This is the biggest achievement I've ever had in my career. Being here, Miguel Cotto, being here at Madison Square Garden, I feel very good. I told you that we had the most beautiful and the most outrageous camp in my career. I have to thank Freddie (Roach) and my group."- Miguel Cotto 

          Indeed, it was such an overwhelming performance by the three time champion challenger Miguel Cotto after scoring what was said as an overwhelming conquer over the champion, the 39- year old Sergio Martinez. Martinez has been knock down twice in his previous fights and successfully stood up then won the fight.

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          However on his recent fight against the Puerto Rican superstar fighter, he was outclassed even at the start of the fight in which saw him floored thrice. Thus last Saturday, June 7th, the world saw him clearly outmatched by Miguel Cotto. It was so obvious that the fight was so one sided in favour of the Puerto Rican fighter that Martinez's trainer Pablo Sarmiento gave in the fight by throwing the towel before the start of the tenth round. 

          It was moreover a wise move by the trainer to prevent his fighter from acquiring further punishment. He had his right eye cut and it was severely swelling. The spirit of Martinez to fight was very much on yet the physical power was no longer present. Hence the world witnessed such a display of a boxing showcase by the much heralded and the only four division Puerto Rican champion, Miguel Cotto.