Vazquez and Marquez speak!

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Israel Vazquez: "Marquez is going to have to fight me, but I will push him around. I will put pressure on him to get him off his rhythm, to make him change his strategy. If he wants to beat me he has to fight me blow-by-blow. No other way around it. But I will not give him that opportunity. If I had revenge on my mind the second time around, you can bet that now I want to make sure that everybody knows that I am the best of the two."
Rafael Marquez: "One thing’s for sure: If either of us makes a mistake on Saturday, it will be very costly and the other will make him pay for it."

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[Xyei]

"I know the last time that I had him hurt in the second and third rounds. (But) when I saw that he was hurt, I got anxious for the win. I became careless.

"Still, I was very surprised that the referee let the fight keep going when he was hurt. I knew Israel was hurt and I kept throwing punches, but the referee didn't do anything about it.

"When the referee finally did stop the fight, I thought he was stopping it to save Vazquez from more punches. I didn't think he was stopping it for me.

"The referee's decision to stop the fight when he did bothered me. I was still throwing punches.

He seems to be in a bit of denial? He might have been able to stay up and take a few more flush punches but he was going down no matter what.