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Your opinions?IMO Benitez would won by close decision

Napoles, and if Benitez doesn't prepare well he gets stopped

The great Jose "Mantequilla" Napoles speed would be a big problem for the great Wilfred Benitez .

Napoles was the busier fighter, too. Mantequilla by late stoppage or decision

I like Napoles at his best...If he fought him like he fought Curtis Cokes... Leonard and Hearns beat Benitez with their jabs... WB tried to slip everything and he leaned a bit forward on his left foot.. So you could get him with sharp straight punches and flurries, but you had to be quick.

Mantequilla

Napoles' work ethic would have gotten him a decision.

I assume that Benitez would have been prepared for that bout, and not the same lethargic, partying fighter who nearly got stopped by Bruce Curry.

But Mantequila was a master and would have had Benitez on the defensive.

It's a tough fight (even the much taller, more dangerous Hearns had difficulty with Benitiez) but Napoles takes a majority decision.

Defensive master Benitez wins this by a split dec in a snore