This piece is all over the place, and I'm a Marquez fan...
Doesn't fight the best fighter at 130, 135, 140
Take away Pacquiao win, after the fourth try and your left with a past prime MAB, Kat, washed up Casa and Diaz
How does this equal ATG? He lost to average-to-good fighters and was made ordinary looking per writers own words. When up against a legit ATG, he was made too look like he shouldn't even box. The article justifies this by placing his status purely on a p4p level, but if ordinary boxers made him look ordinary and an ATG fighter made him look foolish, I'm sure we can look for many p4p and non p4p level boxers/tech types to make him look silly.
Sure he looks amazing against the fighters who fight like Diaz and Kats and even Pac, but c'mon. I certainly think he will be an amazing candidate for the Hall of Fame, but this ATG business is way out of place. He avoided the best comp just for Pac, and it took 4 tries and 6 years total to get a win. To each their own
On a pure trolling level...if JMM is an ATG based solely on Pacquiao win; I can't wait to read Bradley's column
Doesn't fight the best fighter at 130, 135, 140
Take away Pacquiao win, after the fourth try and your left with a past prime MAB, Kat, washed up Casa and Diaz
How does this equal ATG? He lost to average-to-good fighters and was made ordinary looking per writers own words. When up against a legit ATG, he was made too look like he shouldn't even box. The article justifies this by placing his status purely on a p4p level, but if ordinary boxers made him look ordinary and an ATG fighter made him look foolish, I'm sure we can look for many p4p and non p4p level boxers/tech types to make him look silly.
Sure he looks amazing against the fighters who fight like Diaz and Kats and even Pac, but c'mon. I certainly think he will be an amazing candidate for the Hall of Fame, but this ATG business is way out of place. He avoided the best comp just for Pac, and it took 4 tries and 6 years total to get a win. To each their own
On a pure trolling level...if JMM is an ATG based solely on Pacquiao win; I can't wait to read Bradley's column
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