Marquez is without a doubt one of the most technically sound boxers in the last 10 years and drew (thanks to a wrong scoring) against Pac in their first meeting. JMM won most of the last rounds and seemed to give Pac a boxing lesson but most of those rounds were closed and could have gone the other way. It is not as if JMM dominated Pac and won the fight clearly and there is no way he could have won 11 rounds of those rounds. The fight was a draw and let's leave it like that.
Gainer was also in the twilight of his career when he beat him and Peden atlhough became a champion and had a 2 successful title defenses after that wans't really at the level of Pac. And since MAB is already
a washed up fighter when JMM fought him, the fight was close enough that other boxing oundits believe that MAB should have won it. So why give JMM a free pass and not Pac?
Pac is known for beating opponents twice? As far as I know it was only MAB and Pac whom he beat back to back. Pac beat MAB in their 2nd fight but the rematch was warranted because it was a close fight. Even if they didn't fight the 3rd time, Pac was still ahead because EM beat him into a pulp, so he still have the edge. MAB was beaten and it was a total anihilation, so even if the rematch last night didn't happen, Pac was still ahead by a long shot.
Nobody was saying Erik is already a beat down fighter before he fought Pac. Zaheer Rahim beat EM alright but it was a boxing match and he didn't hurt Erik. It was Pac IHO who shortens EM career even though the latter won it.
Since Pac's official debut in US in 2001, he has beaten most fighters convincingly saved the ugly and foul driven fights with Hussein and Sanchez. Even when Pac wasn't 100% he beat those guys either by KTFOing them out or by a UD with huge margin. He might have taken a few easy opponents but they were in between hard fights as in the case of Velazquez and Solis, the former being a tough hombre and the latter an undefeated Mexican champion. So if you really think about it, they were not actually easy fights, it's just people put Manny at a higher level. JMM on the other hand had a string of easier fights in Salido, Polo, Jandaeng and supposedly Jaca who turned out to be a hard nut to crack.
Gainer was also in the twilight of his career when he beat him and Peden atlhough became a champion and had a 2 successful title defenses after that wans't really at the level of Pac. And since MAB is already
a washed up fighter when JMM fought him, the fight was close enough that other boxing oundits believe that MAB should have won it. So why give JMM a free pass and not Pac?
Pac is known for beating opponents twice? As far as I know it was only MAB and Pac whom he beat back to back. Pac beat MAB in their 2nd fight but the rematch was warranted because it was a close fight. Even if they didn't fight the 3rd time, Pac was still ahead because EM beat him into a pulp, so he still have the edge. MAB was beaten and it was a total anihilation, so even if the rematch last night didn't happen, Pac was still ahead by a long shot.
Nobody was saying Erik is already a beat down fighter before he fought Pac. Zaheer Rahim beat EM alright but it was a boxing match and he didn't hurt Erik. It was Pac IHO who shortens EM career even though the latter won it.
Since Pac's official debut in US in 2001, he has beaten most fighters convincingly saved the ugly and foul driven fights with Hussein and Sanchez. Even when Pac wasn't 100% he beat those guys either by KTFOing them out or by a UD with huge margin. He might have taken a few easy opponents but they were in between hard fights as in the case of Velazquez and Solis, the former being a tough hombre and the latter an undefeated Mexican champion. So if you really think about it, they were not actually easy fights, it's just people put Manny at a higher level. JMM on the other hand had a string of easier fights in Salido, Polo, Jandaeng and supposedly Jaca who turned out to be a hard nut to crack.
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