People who are making an issue about the weight difference, are the same people who have never laced 'em up or even been a street fight before.
They're just going by what everyone else says.
The style Floyd employed that night was not even one where he imposed his size or strength on Marquez, neither is the style of Marquez one where he relies on being able to push his opponent around or control him with his mass or strength.
Both fighters are technician type fighters, who rely mostly on pure boxing ability.
That being said, I bet the amount of times Floyd and Marquez clinched in that fight can be counted on one hand. I also bet that at neither of those times did Floyd try to lay on him or push him into a corner or turn him around.
So considering those facts, what advantage does the added weight add?
Because I fail to understand the argument.
I was laughing my ass off at Manny relying on them weird walk-away punches just to land a shot.
And the end of round 9 (which I did give Pacquiao) was bullshit.
The replay shows Pacquiao didn't land anything when he started going crazy toward the end of the round.
What disgusted me even more was that in the HBO face off they showed what Pacquiao must do in terms of foot work in order to neutralize the feet games of Marquez and it seems like Roach was unable to get him to do it.
Pacquiao hates when you make him turn and have to replant his feet.
Again, Mayweather and Manny were both the same size when they were amateurs.
It's not Floyd's fault that Manny lives in a third world country where food ain't in abundance.
Floyd had all the chicken wings, fries, and ramon noodles that he wanted growing up.
:lol1: at Bronner using the shoulder roll and emulating Floyd when he fought N'Dou.
Floyd's weeping after the Hatton win was much cooler than Bronner's Haitian tears.
I said it from the beginning, those bigger guy's undoing in fighting Pacquiao was that they thought they could just come straight to him and walk through him because he's so small.
Marquez who's just as small as he is, doesn't make that mistake.
The thing about the first fight with Cotto and Margarito is that even in their first fight, Margarito's punches looked to be glancing and not all the way flush but were damaging Cotto way more than was Cotto's flush shots damaging Margarito (which does strengthen the plaster argument), so it is hard to say if Margarito would've started coming on stronger, because the way Cotto fought last night showed that he is completely unwilling go stand in front of Margarito for more than 4 seconds (which weakens the plaster argument). So would Cotto have start experiencing fatigue in the championship rounds and Margarito start coming out stronger? We'll never know.
One thing I will say, is that in their first fight, besides the nose bleed the majority of Cotto's damage came in one or two rounds of the later stages of the fight.
The thing about the Margarito matchup is that Cotto himself knew what he had to correct in order to beat Margarito. The thing with a Pacquiao matchup is that, unlike in the Margarito fight, Cotto has no idea what he has to adjust to beat Pacquiao.. He said it himself after they fought, that he didn't see any of the punches coming.
So if Pacquiao reduced Cotto into playing a guessing game in that he couldn't see any punches coming, he is lifetimes away from even conceiving the thought of how to come up with a gameplan on how to beat Pacquiao.
And then you gotta also consider the facts that he has nothing to attract Pacquiao with for a fight.
Yeah. Cotto's camp originally wanted Margarito to where Winning gloves (the pillow ones), but later settled for Everlast.
Also, their first fight was at 147, where fighters where 8oz. Gloves. This one was at 154lbs. Where fighters were 10oz. Gloves.
Cotto was unwilling to stand in front of a plaster-less Margarito and refused to sit down on any of his punches. He instead relied on potshots and moving.
Then considering that Pacquiao already loosened the cap for him on the eye, what do you guys expect to happen.
Margarito's eye is basically to the point where Gatti's face was later in his career, any contact to it will have it looking like the Pacquiao fight all over again.
Good strategy by Cotto last night and he showed better stamina down the stretch than he did the first time around, but the rematch is a little too late to get any significant credit for in my book.